Chad Sorensen
March 4, 2024

Chad Sorensen

Chad F. Sorensen is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of CHMWarnick, the leading provider of hotel asset management and owner advisory services. Chad is Chair Emeritus of ISHC and...

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...

Ayhan Yeginsu
March 4, 2024

Ayhan Yeginsu

With over 50 years of international experience in the hospitality and leisure industry, he started his career in hotel management with Sheraton and Kempinski Hotels. He has held senior management positions with Panorama Leisure,...

Scott Antel
March 4, 2024

Scott Antel

Scott Antel is an internationally regarded emerging markets hotels & hospitality lawyer. He has more than 25 years’ experience advising both owners/developers and international operators in the Middle East, Russia/CIS,...

Alexi Khajavi, Honorary

Alexi Khajavi is President of Hospitality & Travel for Questex LLC, a global business intelligence company that informs and connects buyers and sellers across five key sectors; hospitality, travel, healthcare,...

Tea Ros
March 4, 2024

Tea Ros

Tea Ros is the Founder and Managing Director of Strategic Hotel Consulting, an international management consulting firm specialising in hotel investments. Tea is based in Switzerland and has 20 years...

Ivar Yuste
March 4, 2024

Ivar Yuste

Ivar Yuste founded PHG Hotels & Resorts in 2009 in order to address a niche of the hotel market that was not being fulfilled: providing professional hospitality consulting, based on...

Benjamin Hirasawa
March 4, 2024

Benjamin Hirasawa

Benjamin (Ben) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Benjamin Hirasawa Hospitality International. He previously was a Partner at DLA Piper and Clyde & Co. During this time he led...

Trevor Ward
March 4, 2024

Trevor Ward

Trevor is a specialist consultant in the hospitality and real estate industries. From the late 1980s he has specialised in the provision of advisory services to clients in developing countries,...

John McCarthy
March 4, 2024

John McCarthy

Born and raised in Mexico. 35 plus years of experience in tourism development, including master-planned communities, hotels, resorts, golf, marinas, timeshares, etc. Head of Bancomer’s Tourism Division and Head of...