Leslie Hale, President and CEO of RLJ Lodging Belief, to Headline the Bharat Shah Management Speaker Series on the Thirty fifth Hunter Hotel Investment Conference
ATLANTA – The Hunter Hotel Investment Conference, Noble Investment Neighborhood, and Cecil B. Day Faculty of Hospitality Administration, Georgia Dispute College, are fully elated to jabber Leslie Hale, President and CEO of RLJ Lodging Belief, will be part of Mit Shah, CEO of Noble Investment Neighborhood, for the tenth Annual Bharat Shah Management Speaker Series.
Ms. Hale is the President and CEO of RLJ Lodging Belief (NYSE: RLJ), practical one of many premier public firms in the lodging and hospitality sector. Before joining RLJ in 2005, she held senior positions with GE of their Commercial Finance Neighborhood and Actual Estate Strategic Capital Neighborhood. Previously, Ms. Hale became an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, advising on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate finance. Ms. Hale earned a BBA from Howard College (summa cum laude) and an MBA from Harvard Commerce Faculty, where she became a Goldman Sachs and Toigo Fellow.
A extensively respected realizing leader, Ms. Hale is the main African American lady to manual a publicly listed exact estate investment believe. She serves on the board of directors for Delta Airways, is a trustee of Howard College, and is a board member of the Federal Reserve Financial institution of Richmond. She is in the meanwhile the board chair for the American Hotel and Lodging Association.
I am honored to hitch Mit, Georgia Dispute College, and the Hunter Hotel Investment Conference for the tenth Annual Bharat Shah Management Speaker Series. Reflecting on my unswerving hunch, I if truth be told bask in mighty gratitude for the depth and breadth of experiences which bask in shaped me and the invaluable chums and mentors who bask in guided me alongside the formula. I am mad to fragment about a of the quite quite a bit of lessons I if truth be told bask in realized with other folks that will lead us into the long accelerate,
acknowledged Ms. Hale.
The Bharat Shah Management Speaker Series became established and endowed in honor of Dr. Bharat Shah at Georgia Dispute’s Cecil B. Day Faculty of Hospitality Administration, J. Mack Robinson Faculty of Commerce. An immigrant to the US who became impressed by the transformative energy of education, the vision for this series is to fragment the intimate and various deepest journeys of icons whose tales of battle, perseverance, dedication, and faith bask in ended in the perception of the American Dream.
Leslie and I if truth be told had been shut chums for a protracted time. She is a trailblazer who has continually shattered ceilings in the company world, epitomizing vision, resilience, and excellence. Her contributions proceed to form the hospitality industry and encourage our subsequent generation of leaders,
acknowledged Mit Shah.
Over time, Mit has brought us into the lounge for candid conversations with his father, Bharat Shah; the gradual Designate Elliott, President of Hodges Ward Elliott; Designate Hoplamazian, President and CEO of Hyatt Resorts Corporation; Tom Baltimore, President, Chairman, and CEO of Park Resorts & Accommodations; the gradual Arne Sorenson, President and CEO of Marriott Global; Chris Nassetta, President and CEO of Hilton; Vince Carter and Grant Hill, world-neatly-known NBA and NCAA basketball legends, industry leaders, and philanthropists; Sara Blakely, Founder and Executive Chairwoman of SPANX, and Jesse Itzler, NY Times ultimate-promoting creator and entrepreneur; and Geoff Ballotti, President and CEO of Wyndham Resorts & Accommodations.
Along with her unparalleled hunch in the hospitality industry and impactful leadership at RLJ, Leslie is a ideal fit for the tenth Annual Bharat Shah Management Speaker Series. We are pleased to welcome her to the main stage at HUNTER, where she’s going to no doubt encourage and bid our attendees alongside with her narrative. As HUNTER approaches its Thirty fifth year, the Bharat Shah Management Speaker Series stays a cornerstone on the conference because it connects our industry by highlighting the numerous paths to success,
acknowledged Lee Hunter, Chairman of the Hunter Hotel Investment Conference and Chief Working Officer of Hunter Hotel Advisors.
Leslie Hale and Mit Shah will rob the main stage of the HUNTER Conference on Thursday, March 21, 2024, at 12:30 p.m. on the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. The session is originate to registered attendees, particular guests, and Georgia Dispute College students.
About Noble Investment Neighborhood
Noble is an award-a hit exact estate investment manager that specialize in the hunch and hospitality sector. With a note file spanning three a protracted time, the company has invested over $5.0 billion in communities for the length of the country, adding worth all the plan in which through cycles and rising thousands of jobs. PERE has named Noble practical one of many Top 200 Global Investment Managers, and the company has been identified as practical one of many Simplest Locations to Work.
As a fiduciary to main pensions plans, endowments, and foundations, Noble’s endeavors wait on to retain and develop our restricted partners’ capital, which assists in offering retirement advantages for our country’s lecturers, regulations enforcement, firefighters, assorted pensioners, and financial resources for students to abet college. For extra files, please discuss to www.nobleinvestment.com.
About Hunter Hotel Investment Conference
The Hunter Hotel Investment Conference is an education- and networking-focused tournament for lodge owners, builders, and investors. The 35th Hunter Hotel Investment Conference runs from March 19-21, 2024, on the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. Long identified as practical one of many conclude national lodge conferences, HUNTER goals to give appropriate industry performance and model files alongside networking and academic alternatives. The conference is equipped by Hunter Hotel Advisors, the nation’s main investment advisory company focused completely on the lodge industry. For extra files on the Hunter Hotel Investment Conference, please discuss to hunterconference.com.
About Georgia Dispute College
The Cecil B. Day Faculty of Hospitality Administration for the length of the J. Mack Robinson Faculty of Commerce are co-founders of the Hunter Hotel Investment Conference. Georgia Dispute College gives its world-class college and better than 52,000 students from over 130 nations and territories with unsurpassed connections to alternatives in practical one of many twenty first century’s enormous world cities. A national leader in graduating students from various backgrounds, at the side of better than 3,000 world students, extra African American students graduate each year from Georgia Dispute than any assorted public or nonprofit greater education institution in the US. Georgia Dispute is the #1 public or nonprofit university in Georgia to confer undergraduate and graduate levels to African American citizens, Asians, and Latinos. It’s ranked the #2 most modern university and #1 public university for its solid dedication to undergraduate teaching.
Katherine Camak
Hunter Hotel Advisors
