the lifestyle leader Brian De Lowe President + Cofounder Proper Hospitality While many people in hospitality fi nd themselves in it due to an instant infatuation or being born into it, Brian De Lowe's foray into (and subsequent love for) the industry was more of a slow burn. Although the California native worked as a valet and bellman at a Marriott while in high school, he wouldn't look for or fi nd his niche until aſt er college. Aſt er graduating from the University of Southern California, where he majored in business, De Lowe took some time to travel throughout South and Central America before returning to the West Coast to enter the real estate business. For the next four or fi ve years, he helped develop loſt s and condominiums around Los Angeles. Finding himself missing Latin America, he moved to Mexico to pursue real estate projects with American capital. The projects that made the most 116 July 2022 hospitalitydesign.comhttp://www.hospitalitydesign.com