Dennis W. Quaintance CEO & CDO (Chief Design Officer) Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants & Hotels 324 W. Wendover Ave. Suite 320, Greensboro, NC 27408 Hospitality Career In 1973, he began his hospitality career at age 15 as a housekeeper’s assistant at a hotel in Missoula, Mt. He quickly worked his way up to assistant general manager . For four years after high school, he worked in leadership at several hotels around the Northwest. In 1979, he moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, to help a friend open a restaurant, Franklin’s Off Friendly. Dennis teamed up with Mike Weaver to form Quaintance-Weaver in 1988 and opened Lucky 32 restuarant in Greensboro in 1989. Lucky 32 was named for Dennis’ father’s racecar (‘46 Mercury flathead V8). Today, the Quaintance-Weaver family includes a second Lucky 32 Kitchen and Wine Bar in Cary. The four-diamond, 131-room O.Henry Hotel and the adjacent Green Valley Grill opened in Greensboro in 1998. The 147-room Proximity Hotel and neighboring Print Works Bistro opens in 2007, just a stone’s throw from the O.Henry. Family Married Nancy King in 1983. In 1998, they had twin children, Kathleen Troy and Dennis Carlisle. Affiliations and Awards Center for Creative Leadership, Executive in Residence, 2006/07 Johnnetta B. Cole Global Insitute for Diversity and Inclusion, Board of Directors 2006–Present Triad Stage Executive Board, Past BoardMember Guilford College Boad of Visitors, Member Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, PastBoard and Executive Committee Member Recipient of Junior Achievement of the Triad “Spirit of Entrepreneurship” Award 2006 Restaurateur of the Year 2004 by the NC Restaurant Association Young President’s Organization, co-leader with Nancy of the Southern U.S. Conference 2006 Chaine des Rotisseurs, Member Education Hellgate High School in Missoula, Montana Early Years Trivia Dennis’ spirit of entrepreneurship started at age seven when he scoured the desert for interesting sedimentarty rocks, that he would sell as “wonder stones” along a desolate stretch of Nevada. The youngest of five children, he was born in Spirit Lake, Iowa. By age 7, his family moved to central Nevada to support family members who had homesteaded. Dennis’ childhood schooling in a one room school house in Nevada without electricity made him understand the value of conserving energy at a very early age. His family then moved to the Bitterroot Valley in Western Montana when his father got into the business of legally transporting wild horses and converting them into rodeo stock.