ATLANTA – The Hunter Lodge Funding Convention, Noble Funding Group, and Cecil B. Day College of Hospitality Administration, Georgia State College, are happy to announce Leslie Hale, President and CEO of RLJ Lodging Belief, will be a part of Mit Shah, CEO of Noble Funding Group, for the tenth Annual Bharat Shah Management Speaker Sequence.
Ms. Hale is the President and CEO of RLJ Lodging Belief (NYSE: RLJ), one of many premier public corporations within the lodging and hospitality sector. Earlier than becoming a member of RLJ in 2005, she held senior positions with GE of their Business Finance Group and Actual Property Strategic Capital Group. Beforehand, Ms. Hale was an funding banker with Goldman Sachs, advising on mergers, acquisitions, and company finance. Ms. Hale earned a BBA from Howard College (summa cum laude) and an MBA from Harvard Enterprise College, the place she was a Goldman Sachs and Toigo Fellow.
A broadly revered thought chief, Ms. Hale is the primary African American lady to steer a publicly listed actual property funding belief. She serves on the board of administrators for Delta Airways, is a trustee of Howard College, and is a board member of the Federal Reserve Financial institution of Richmond. She is at the moment the board chair for the American Lodge and Lodging Affiliation.
I’m honored to hitch Mit, Georgia State College, and the Hunter Lodge Funding Convention for the tenth Annual Bharat Shah Management Speaker Sequence. Reflecting on my skilled journey, I’ve immense gratitude for the depth and breadth of experiences which have formed me and the invaluable associates and mentors who’ve guided me alongside the best way. I’m excited to share just a few of the various classes I’ve discovered with those that will lead us into the longer term,
mentioned Ms. Hale.
The Bharat Shah Management Speaker Sequence was established and endowed in honor of Dr. Bharat Shah at Georgia State’s Cecil B. Day College of Hospitality Administration, J. Mack Robinson Faculty of Enterprise. An immigrant to the US who was impressed by the transformative energy of schooling, the imaginative and prescient for this sequence is to share the intimate and various private journeys of icons whose tales of battle, perseverance, dedication, and religion have led to the belief of the American Dream.
Leslie and I’ve been shut associates for a few years. She is a trailblazer who has regularly shattered ceilings within the company world, epitomizing imaginative and prescient, resilience, and excellence. Her contributions proceed to form the hospitality trade and encourage our subsequent era of leaders,
mentioned Mit Shah.
Through the years, Mit has introduced us into the lounge for candid conversations along with his father, Bharat Shah; the late Mark Elliott, President of Hodges Ward Elliott; Mark Hoplamazian, President and CEO of Hyatt Lodges Company; Tom Baltimore, President, Chairman, and CEO of Park Lodges & Resorts; the late Arne Sorenson, President and CEO of Marriott Worldwide; Chris Nassetta, President and CEO of Hilton; Vince Carter and Grant Hill, world-renowned NBA and NCAA basketball legends, enterprise leaders, and philanthropists; Sara Blakely, Founder and Govt Chairwoman of SPANX, and Jesse Itzler, NY Occasions best-selling writer and entrepreneur; and Geoff Ballotti, President and CEO of Wyndham Lodges & Resorts.
Together with her exceptional journey within the hospitality trade and impactful management at RLJ, Leslie is an ideal match for the tenth Annual Bharat Shah Management Speaker Sequence. We’re thrilled to welcome her to the principle stage at HUNTER, the place she is going to undoubtedly encourage and enlighten our attendees together with her story. As HUNTER approaches its thirty fifth 12 months, the Bharat Shah Management Speaker Sequence stays a cornerstone on the convention because it connects our trade by highlighting the various paths to success,
mentioned Lee Hunter, Chairman of the Hunter Lodge Funding Convention and Chief Working Officer of Hunter Lodge Advisors.
Leslie Hale and Mit Shah will take the principle stage of the HUNTER Convention on Thursday, March 21, 2024, at 12:30 p.m. on the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. The session is open to registered attendees, particular visitors, and Georgia State College college students.
About Noble Funding Group
Noble is an award-winning actual property funding supervisor specializing within the journey and hospitality sector. With a monitor file spanning three many years, the agency has invested over $5.0 billion in communities all through the nation, including worth throughout cycles and creating hundreds of jobs. PERE has named Noble one of many Prime 200 International Funding Managers, and the agency has been acknowledged as one of many Finest Locations to Work.
As a fiduciary to foremost pensions plans, endowments, and foundations, Noble’s endeavors assist to protect and develop our restricted companions’ capital, which assists in offering retirement advantages for our nation’s lecturers, legislation enforcement, firefighters, different pensioners, and monetary sources for college kids to attend faculty. For extra info, please go to www.nobleinvestment.com.
About Hunter Lodge Funding Convention
The Hunter Lodge Funding Convention is an education- and networking-focused occasion for lodge homeowners, builders, and traders. The 35th Hunter Lodge Funding Convention runs from March 19-21, 2024, on the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. Lengthy acknowledged as one of many high nationwide lodge conferences, HUNTER goals to offer correct trade efficiency and development info alongside networking and academic alternatives. The convention is introduced by Hunter Lodge Advisors, the nation’s main funding advisory agency targeted completely on the lodge trade. For extra info on the Hunter Lodge Funding Convention, please go to hunterconference.com.
About Georgia State College
The Cecil B. Day College of Hospitality Administration throughout the J. Mack Robinson Faculty of Enterprise are co-founders of the Hunter Lodge Funding Convention. Georgia State College gives its world-class college and greater than 52,000 college students from over 130 nations and territories with unsurpassed connections to alternatives in one of many twenty first century’s nice world cities. A nationwide chief in graduating college students from various backgrounds, together with greater than 3,000 worldwide college students, extra African American college students graduate every year from Georgia State than some other public or nonprofit greater schooling establishment in the US. Georgia State is the #1 public or nonprofit college in Georgia to confer undergraduate and graduate levels to African Individuals, Asians, and Latinos. It’s ranked the #2 most modern college and #1 public college for its robust dedication to undergraduate instructing.