Nina Kleiman, leverages her 35 years of experience in lodging asset management, operations, acquisitions, and consulting to develop and execute strategies to maximize each owner’s investment objectives. Nina leads and supports hotelAVE teams to deploy industry-leading asset management practices focused on revenue management and profit opportunities as well as real estate, capital, and contract optimization. Her asset management experience is based on success working with a wide array of hotels from luxury to midscale, both domestically as well as in the Caribbean and Mexico. Asset cornerstones include the proactive identification of value enhancement opportunities via detailed research, industry analysis, and benchmarking including the optimization of hotel positioning, brand, third-party partnerships, and hotel strategic alternatives.
Nina’s prior experience encompasses a variety of lodging companies including LaSalle Hotel Properties, Westmont Hospitality Group, and IHG, where she headed Investment Analysis. At Lehman Brothers, she was a lead lodging and gaming analyst and at Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), performed acquisition analyses, feasibility studies, and appraisals of individual hotels as well as portfolios in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America. Nina began her career at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, where she held a variety of rooms division management positions, ultimately managing the department and over 100 employees.