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Our Team
At Quest Hospitality Ventures, we blend the professional backgrounds of our direct investment team with the industry expertise and market influence of our Strategic Limited Partners and world-class Advisory Board to drive extraordinary results. We believe this approach differentiates our firm and offers value far beyond the capital we deploy.
Investment Team
The hospitality and travel industry is supported today by traditional brand managers and property operators who are being forced to rapidly deploy new technologies in order to mitigate the strongest consumer headwinds of our lifetime - a disruptive trend which will continue for years to come. The QHV investment team was specifically assembled to understand all facets of this industry shift - collectively the Managing Directors and Venture Partners have founded and operated 9 companies in the hospitality industry, led Internet and technology investment banking teams which have completed a significant number of hospitality industry transactions, and invested venture capital in the hospitality industry for over 30 years.
Managing Directors:
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Venture Partners:
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Strategic Limited Partners
QHV's Strategic Limited Partners include hospitality and travel industry veterans who collectively possess hospitality industry expertise which has never been assembled before in one firm. Together, our Strategic Limited Partners own or operate over 10,000 restaurant locations and over 6,600 hotel properties incorporating 45 brands across 63 countries. This investor list includes executives from the hotel, restaurant, airline, gaming and travel sectors, and also includes fellow venture capitalists and other investment professionals, along with technology entrepreneurs and co-investors of the QHV principals in prior venture capital funds.
Board of Advisors
QHV has assembled an unparalleled Board of Advisors that consists of well-known hospitality industry veterans, including the co-founder of Outback Steakhouse, the founding CEO of Virgin America Airlines, and the former CEO of InterContinental Hotels. Each member of the Board of Advisors is a Limited Partner in QHV. Advisors serve not only as a source of deal flow, but more importantly provide due diligence and industry validation for potential portfolio companies. These relationships provide QHV the ability to make uniquely informed investment decisions, and in return provide great value for entrepreneurs.
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- Leland Pillsbury
CEO, Thayer Lodging
- B. Anthony Isaac
President, LodgeWorks
- Richard Bradley
President, Bradley (Real Estate) Holdings
- Tom Oliver
Former CEO, Intercontinental Hotels
- Robert Alter
Founder, Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE: SHO)
- Frederick Reid
Former CEO, Virgin America
- J. Timothy Gannon
Founder, Outback Steakhouse
- Mark Bromberg
CEO, Apex Restaurant Group
- Melinda Bush
CEO, Hospitality Resources Worldwide
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- Gabe Piccoli
Former Professor at Cornell Hotel School
- Thomas Corcoran
Founder & Chairman, FelCor
- George Ruff
Founder, Trinity Hotel Investors
- Charles A. Ledsinger, Jr.
Former CEO, Choice Hotels
- Eric Young
Co-Founder, General Partner, Canaan Partners
- William McAleer
Co-Founder, Managing Director, Voyager Capital
- Patrick Meyers
Partner and CLO at Consumer Capital Partners
- Rich Warnick
President and Founder of Warnick + Company
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Summer Interns
- Craig Mason
2010 Cornell Hotel School Summer Intern
- Vincent Cusma
2011 Cornell Hotel School Summer Intern
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