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ILANA ALBERICO

PRESIDENT, SPA SPACE

Ms. Alberico has dedicated her career to empowering well being as an essential component of the health of individuals, families, businesses, and communities. She’s built a dynamic collection of vertically integrated wellness companies that operationalize her innovative and industry leading designs across luxury resort, destination, day spas and wellness centers through management services, products, and technology.

Ms. Alberico is the co-founder of Privai and Women’s Business Enterprise National Council certified management company, Innovative Spa Management (ISM) where she served as CEO for over a decade and winning International Spa Association’s award for Innovations in Leadership. ISM has been twice named to Inc. Magazine’s Fastest Growing Companies and is now part of Arch Amenities Group.

In 2020, she leveraged her vast business and wellness domain expertise to launch SpaSpace technology, a SaaS/Fintech platform that delivers revenue and cost savings for facilities by activating spaces with real-time wellness reservations that harness automation and machine learning to drive efficiencies.

Described as a ‘wellness futurist’ with the pragmatic mind of an effective operator, she’s demonstrated two decades of consistently creating long term value for investors by ensuring the culture, people, innovations, and business fundamentals are clearly aligned to achieve goals. Because of this, she is respected as an industry leader, speaker, and author within the wellness industry. 

As a leader, she builds loyal, empowered teams dedicated to delivering results and aligned in an unwavering commitment to harnessing technology that empowers the freedom to live well.