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...

Andrew Hazelton
March 4, 2024

Andrew Hazelton

Andrew Hazelton is Managing Director of AETHOS Consulting Group’s office in Philadelphia. An experienced recruitment consultant, he possesses more than fifteen years of retained executive search experience in a variety...

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...

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...

Alan Tantleff
March 4, 2024

Alan Tantleff

Alan Tantleff is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is based in New York. He leads the Hospitality, Gaming and Leisure practice within the Corporate Finance & Restructuring...

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,...

Linda Bruno, Emeritus

Dedicated to the luxury, independent segment of the industry, my focus has been specific to positioning and development of unique ultra-luxury properties. Eventually I expanded to mixed-use developments, adaptive re-use...

James Lehouiller
March 4, 2024

James Lehouiller

"What can we do better?" is James Lehouiller's battle cry as he travels the globe overseeing the DiLeonardo team's work on six continents. During a career that has taken him...