Michelle Russo is founder and CEO of hotelAVE. Michelle has more than 30 years of practical, hands-on experience with hotels, restaurants, resorts, convention centers, real estate, and finance.Prior to founding hotelAVE in 2003, Michelle was Vice Pre...
Michelle Russo is founder and CEO of hotelAVE. Michelle has more than 30 years of practical, hands-on experience with hotels, restaurants, resorts, convention centers, real estate, and finance.Prior to founding hotelAVE in 2003, Michelle was Vice President, Senior Leisure Analyst for Deutsche Banc Alex Brown where she garnered capital markets experience covering lodging and leisure (including cruise, ski and gold industries).
As the hotel industry continues to recover from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there will almost certainly be opposing views on which pandemic-related service adjustments will have future staying ...
The job of owner representatives and asset managers is to maximize value. Since hotel value is largely determined by cash flow, their focus is on bringing the most to the bottom line as possible.