Brian Waldman

Biographie : As Chief Investment Officer, Brian leads Peachtree's asset management, investments and portfolio management functions. He focuses on the firm's investment and capital deployment strategies and oversees a real estate portfolio with a market capitalization of approximately $6 billion. Working with a cross-functional team, Brian also provides analysis, research, underwriting and financial oversight to procure equity and debt investments. Throughout his 20-plus-year career, Brian has had experience underwriting a broad range of asset and portfolio types spanning from luxury hotels and resorts to limited-, select-service and extended-stay hotel properties. He joined Peachtree in 2015 and has contributed significantly to Peachtree's growth and investment performance. During his tenure, Brian has overseen hundreds of transactions with a gross asset value of roughly $8 billion. His experience in total includes executing transactional and advisory assignments with an aggregate asset value exceeding $15 billion, underwriting more than $16 billion of individual property assets and hotel companies, consulting on development projects valued in excess of $4 billion, restructuring and/or working on portfolios and individual hotels valued in excess of $5 billion and marketing hundreds of hotels for sale. Before joining Peachtree, Brian was the Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets for Beacon Hospitality Partners, where he was responsible for executing capital markets assignments and other advisory assignments with an aggregate asset value exceeding $8 billion. Prior to Beacon, Brian served as Senior Vice President of DTZ Property Group and Vice President of The Mumford Company. Before that, he worked at InterContinental Hotels Group, Arthur Andersen and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Brian is a graduate of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, where he completed a dual concentration in real estate and finance. In addition, he serves as a board member for the Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities.