Liya has 14 years of hospitality experience including asset management, acquisitions, and strategic advisory. As Senior Director at hotelAVE, she provides asset management services for a portfolio of hotels.
- Prior to joining hotelAVE, Liya was a Director of Strategy at WATG where she led strategic advisory projects for global hotel and mixed-use developments and performed economic and market trend analysis to guide internal strategy
- Prior to WATG, Liya was Manager, Hotel Asset Management at CHMWarnick where she worked closely with hotel management teams to provide direction and oversight of all aspects of hotel operations, business plans, budgets, forecasts, capital projects, and renovation projects
- Liya has extensive hotel asset management, advisory and investment experience with several domestic companies, leveraging data analytics, benchmarking and financial modeling to optimize operational and financial results
Liya graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Hotel Administration. She also holds a Masters of Business Administration from Yale University. Liya is a member of the Cornell Hotel Society (CHS) – Los Angeles/Orange County Chapter, and she is also a Certified Hotel Administrator (CHA). She has written a number of articles, including: The Evolution of Lifestyle Select-Service Hotels (2020), Momentum and Motivations of Foreign Investors (2016) and Operational Hedging and Exchange Rate Risk (2009).
