About

Proven Developments is built on decades of hands-on experience developing luxury residential and hospitality properties across five continents. Our principals have personally originated, structured, built, and delivered projects from the Caribbean to East Africa, Europe to North America.

We engage selectively with aligned investors, landowners, and private clients to develop and deliver boutique residential and hospitality assets in the world’s most compelling destinations.

Principals

Proven Developments is led by Ronan & Colin Hannan, Irish brothers with over 45 years of global experience developing award-winning real estate and resort projects. An accountant and an economist, they bring deep expertise and complementary styles, balancing creative vision and commercial results.

Ronan Hannan

Ronan's international development career is built on a strong financial foundation. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC before working up to management positions for international corporations including Woolworths and RBC across multiple continents.

Leaving the corporate world, Ronan built his own real estate investment business before forming and managing an international property fund with over 240 investors. He oversaw the acquisition of several thousand acres of strategic land assets in international markets and led the development of mixed-use projects in luxury destinations.

He brings deep professional experience in the analysis, structuring, and financing of residential and resort developments, with a focus on financial feasibility, capital strategy, and investor relations. Relied upon for his financial pragmatism and insight, he has visited over 65 countries and lived between Ireland and New York for the last two decades.

Colin Hannan

With over two decades of international experience, Colin has developed, launched, and repositioned luxury residential and resort projects across Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and Asia. His career has spanned every stage of the development lifecycle, from site acquisition and concept through to design, capital structuring, brand development, and sales delivery.

Colin brings a commercial discipline rooted in Economics, with a particular strength in identifying market positioning and assembling the teams, partnerships, and strategies required to bring complex projects to market. He has held executive and leadership roles across branded and boutique hotel and residential developments, living and working in multiple countries throughout his career.

He holds advisory and ownership positions across a number of businesses and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Company, and Architectural Digest.

Advisors

James A. Wilson

Strategic Advisor

James has more than 35 years of international experience in resort and property development. Through his roles as CEO of Omran, CEO of Nakheel and President of IFA Hotels amongst others, he has led the development of some of the most prestigious and recognisable real estate and tourism destinations across the EMEA region, including the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, Quinta Do Lago in Portugal, and the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa.

Robert Dix

Strategic Advisor

Former KPMG Partner and Head of Transaction Services (20 years). Graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Harvard Business School. Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. Robert brings extensive experience across M&A, corporate strategy, IPOs, and large-scale transactions. Former Chairman of Bank of Ireland Private Banking. Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Glenveagh Properties plc. Irish Olympian (sailing, 1976 Montreal).

Team

Laura Merizalde

  • Laura is a multidisciplinary designer and art director who specialises in travel and lifestyle brands. Born in Colombia, she moved to the US at a young age and holds a Bachelor's in Fine Arts from Florida State and a Master's in Creative Direction from Barcelona’s ELISAVA, where she lived for two years. She has led brand development projects for a variety of international lifestyle brands.

Tanmoy Sinha

  • Tanmoy is an experienced Finance Manager, skilled in Budgeting, Accounting, and Management with an ACA focused in Financial Reporting, Management Accounting and Financial Analysis, Auditing, Corporate Law from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Dimitrios Karypidis

  • Dimitrios studied Economics, has a Diploma in IFRS, and is in the process of becoming a qualified Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA). He has proven experience in hospitality, working for eight years as management accountant for a private equity hospitality company. He is an advanced financial modeler with deep expertise in development finance as well as operational management.

Amila Omerika

  • Amila is a veteran marketer, storyteller, and project manager. She has an MBA with a Major in Economics, speaks 5 languages, and spent many years of her career bringing order and systems to projects with excellent problem-solving skills. She has managed people and projects in various industries for many years, with a focus on managing a cross-functional team of designers, developers, and copywriters to ensure the timely delivery of the project. Amila’s project management–related passions include frequent communication, Gantt charts, and automated reminder systems.

Aligned Partnerships

We engage selectively with aligned investors, landowners, and private clients to originate, develop and steward boutique residential and hospitality assets.

Investors

Access to principal-led residential and hospitality development opportunities.

Owners

Select partnerships for the development and repositioning of existing property assets.

Private Clients

Discreet principal-led development for select residential and hospitality commissions.