Profile

Ingo Schweder

Founder & CEO
GOCO Hospitality

INGO is a global thought leader, visionary & pioneer in the wellness and hospitality industry. Globally recognized as an authority, Ingo leads the next generation of wellness professionals as the CEO of GOCO Hospitality. Injecting fresh ideas and professional management into the rapidly expanding wellness hospitality sector, Ingo Schweder brings together more than 40 years of experience in the spa and hospitality industries. He leads the multidisciplinary teams at GOCO Hospitality and Horwath HTL Health and Wellness to strategise, conceptualise, design and manage the latest wellness developments for the world’s top hospitality and real estate brands. From individual hotel spas to dedicated wellness resorts and master planned mixed-use developments, Ingo’s experience and insights have taken over 400 projects worth more than $4.5 billion across upwards of 42 countries from initial idea to profitable realisation and on-going management. Ingo maintains a creative lead in the management and development of all GOCO-branded spas and is the Managing Director of Horwath HTL Health and Wellness. Ingo also owns and manages Glen Ivy Hot Springs in Southern California, the United States’ oldest and highest-grossing hot spring resort. He was formerly a board member of Mandarin Oriental and earlier Corporate Director of Operations for Oberoi Hotels & Resorts. Under his guidance, Ananda in the Himalayas, the globally recognised destination resort, was established in 1999/2000. Ingo is a co-founder of Space Yoga & Space Cycle, together with Matthew Allison, former President of EMI Music, and Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba. He sat on the Advisory Boards of AMAALA, a luxury wellness destination in Saudi Arabia developed by PIF, the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Saudi Arabia and the International Hospitality Investment Forum (IHIF). He was also a Board Member of the Moonstone Retreat in Bodø, a project funded by the Norwegian Sovereign Fund’s developmental arm, Innovation Norway. In December 2023 Ingo and the subsidiary of Temasek Holdings Limited, Singapore formed a JV Investment vehicle to expand further in the Wellness Real Estate Segment. Since its inception, this joint venture has successfully acquired wellness resorts in Bali and Koh Samui, Thailand. Currently, it is actively pursuing additional projects in the Maldives and Switzerland, all of which will fall under the same brand.