Joel W. Hiser, Principal

Joel W. Hiser is a highly experienced commercial property real estate professional. He has a broad base of work experience with all types of commercial real estate with an emphasis on hotels, resorts and other hospitality related assets. Specific areas of expertise include: hotel and resort property sales, hotel and multi-family residential management, development services, debt and equity procurement, and retail center/office building leasing and management. He has also served as a court appointed receiver for numerous court cases involving commercial real estate assets of varying size and complexity including cases converted to bankruptcy status.

During his career, Mr. Hiser has served in the capacity of a partner or a senior real estate executive and executive committee member for four large international companies. These executive management positions included oversight of two hotel focused real estate portfolios with property values well in excess of $1 billion each. He has acquired, brokered or financed several hundred million dollars of hotel and resort properties, including the purchase and financing of such well known hotel assets as the Millennium U.N. Plaza Hotel – New York, Biltmore Hotel & Office Tower – Los Angeles, Bostonian Hotel – Boston, Marriott Wailae Resort – Maui, Four Seasons Hotel – New York and the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel – Chicago. He has also developed, owned and managed several hotels.

Mr. Hiser is a certified public accountant (I) and a licensed real estate broker in multiple states. He graduated from The School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State University. He earned an MBA degree from California State University – East Bay. As a very visible member of the hotel industry, he has written a number of articles for trade journals and has often been featured as a speaker at industry conferences on matters related to hotel brokerage, property management, development, franchising and financing.

• Thirty year career in the hospitality industry
• Principal - Horwath HTL - USA
• Executive Committee Member & Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance & Acquisitions - Richfield Hospitality Services and parent company, Regal Hotels International
• Executive Committee Member & Vice President Real Estate - Outrigger Hotels & Resorts
• Senior Vice President Hotel Acquisitions – Metlife affiliate
• Advisory Services Partner - Pannell Kerr Forster, CPA Firm
• Executive Managing Director – PKF Investments/Capital Markets
• President/CEO – Hotel development and management company
• Completed over 50 hotel transactions exceeding $2.5 billion in value
• Asset management for two hotel/office portfolios each exceeding $1 billion in asset value
• Leasing and management of office, retail, apartment and restaurant space for Outrigger Hotels & Resorts in Hawaii
• Frequent lecturer and author on hotel real estate and finance issues
• B.A., Michigan State University – The School of Hospitality Business
• M.B.A., California State University
• Certified Public Accountant (I)
• Licensed Real Estate Broker in multiple states