Samantha Ahuja
March 4, 2024

Samantha Ahuja

Samantha Ahuja focuses her practice on hotel acquisitions, operations, development and finance, hotel management agreements, licensing agreements, and commercial real estate acquisition and sale. She advises domestic and international clients...

Jeff Loether
March 4, 2024

Jeff Loether

Prior to starting ELECTRO-MEDIA DESIGN, Ltd, Jeff was a Manager of Audio/Video Systems Design for Marriott Corporation’s Architecture and Construction Division. Jeff completed over 250 worldwide projects including five-star resorts,...

Nelson Migdal
March 4, 2024

Nelson Migdal

Over 4 decades devoted to the hospitality industry with a concentration on transactions, management agreements and franchise agreements. Nelson F. Migdal is Co-Chair of the Hospitality Practice of Greenberg Traurig....

Dermot Ryan
March 4, 2024

Dermot Ryan

As the Managing Director of Hospitality at MGAC with overall responsibility for the success of our client’s ground-up and renovation hotel projects. Over the past 30 years, I have successfully...

Dr. Chekitan Dev
March 4, 2024

Dr. Chekitan Dev

Chekitan S. Dev is the Singapore Tourism Distinguished Professor at Cornell University's SC Johnson College of Business in the School of Hotel Administration. Professor Dev is a globally renowned thought...

Leora Halpern Lanz
March 4, 2024

Leora Halpern Lanz

Leora Halpern Lanz is the principal of LHL Communications, a hospitality content marketing, branding and media relations advisory. She is also full-time faculty teaching various marketing classes at Boston University’s...

Mark VanStekelenburg

I grew up in the Netherlands and various states as our family moved around quite a bit. After living in 8 states and abroad, I moved to Ithaca in 2000...

John Fareed
March 4, 2024

John Fareed

John Fareed, MSc CHME ISHC, is the Global Chairman for Horwath HTL. He leads the global brand and oversees the firm’s US offices. Over the past twenty-five years, Fareed’s consulting...

Deborah Friedland
March 4, 2024

Deborah Friedland

With over 30 years of specialized experience in hospitality-related real estate, Deborah advises clients in accounting outsourcing and audit, tax structuring and consulting, acquisition due diligence, brand and management conversion,...

Chad Crandell
March 4, 2024

Chad Crandell

Chad Crandell is Managing Director/CEO of CHMWarnick, the leading provider of hotel asset management and owner advisory services. Chad has 30 plus years’ experience in the hospitality industry, the majority...