OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 11, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Leslie Hospitality Consulting is pleased to announce that Managing Director, Michael I. Jones, has been credentialed as a Certified Hotel Real Estate Investments and Asset Manager.
Certification is provided through Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and is achieved after successful completion of Cornell's program focused on strategic development and realization of financial and management asset goals.
"Understanding the value of hotel real estate investments and the dynamics of the financial and operational aspects of real estate investments, asset management, and management contracts is critical to the success of our clients", stated Edwin W. Leslie, President & CEO of Leslie Hospitality. "Michael's certification will enhance greatly the services we provide to our Asset Management clients in the hospitality industry and we are proud of his accomplishment in receiving this coveted certification"
This Cornell certification series focuses on developing a comprehensive knowledge base and tool set that enables asset managers to fully understand the complex dynamics surrounding the hotel real estate and management contracts from the point of view of the property owner, operator, and lender. This multi-party view fully enables participants to structure and negotiate the most advantageous agreement taking into account the motivations of all interested parties.
Leslie Hospitality Consulting is a boutique hospitality firm representing private investment banking firms, lenders, family offices and others both domestically and internationally in all aspects of the Hospitality industry, encompassing over $500 Million in assets currently under management.
Cornell University ranked in the top 20 of the Best Universities in the United States by US News is a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge -- from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, a popular 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."
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