The Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship (PIHE) recently welcomed four new hospitality industry leaders to its advisory board. In this role, they will help shape the entrepreneurship curriculum at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration and support entrepreneurial students through such programs as the Hospitality Business Plan Competition, Entrepreneurs in Residence, and internships. New advisory board members:
Moby Ahmed has more than 30 years of experience in hotel management, resort development, operations, marketing, and developing future leaders. His entire professional life is spent developing operational and marketing strategies and techniques with distinct strengths of executing, influencing, relationship building, and strategic thinking. As managing partner of A/R Hotels, a group of boutique properties, he is responsible for securing third-party management contracts, developing acquisition strategies, and providing technical advisory services for eclectic hospitality projects. Bob Alter is president of Seaview Investors, LLC, a real estate investment management company that is a corporate partner of the PIHE. He is also chairman emeritus and founder of Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. He founded the company in 1985 as a hotel owner and management company and took it public in 1995. During the 22 years that Alter was CEO, Sunstone acquired 125 hotel properties with more than 20,000 guest rooms and led the disposition of 80 hotels. Alter oversaw approximately $1 billion of renovations and brand conversions and built seven ground-up hotels, including the JW Marriott Denver at Cherry Creek.
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