Who: Mario Sarafraz, executive vice president of global operations & managing partner of The Luxury Group, which provides fine luxury hotel and spa accommodations.

What: In charge of acquisitions of new clients, managing the marketing staff. Job involves traveling to hotels around the world and visiting the properties and meeting with the management of hotels, as well. Current clients include the Hotel Ritz in Paris, France and the Mark Hopkins hotel in San Francisco.

Where: Sarafraz's home office is San Rafael, CA, and Cannes, France. He works in an extra living room which has been converted to an office. His office work is all conducted from home, while he attends meetings and hotel trade shows worldwide. Sarafraz is currently traveling through central Europe, visiting hotels in Prague, Amsterdam, Salzburg, Geneva and Florence.

When: Since Sarafraz is in the international luxury hotel business, he tends to work odd hours at times, but generally works from 7 a.m.