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Nina Kleiman, CHAM

Executive Vice President

Contact Information
Education
  • Master of Business Administration, Haas School of Business, University of California – Berkeley
  • Bachelor of Science, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University

Nina Kleiman, CHAM

Executive Vice President

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.

“hotelAVE is about exceeding clients’ expectations. We work tirelessly to overdeliver to improve our hotels collaboratively. We don’t just report; we add value.”

Affiliations and Certifications
  • AH&LA – Certified Hotel Asset Manager (CHAM)
  • Hospitality Asset Managers Association (HAMA): Member
  • Cornell Hotel Society (CHS) – New York Chapter: Board Member
  • Cornell Hotel Society NYC 80s Committee: Co-Founder & Co-Chair of annual Big Apple Update
  • Named one of the 30 Influential Women in Hospitality by Hotel Management Magazine (October 2019)
Publications/Articles
  • Market in Decline? – December 2019, Hotel Asset Management Magazine
  • How to Ensure a Seamless Budget Process – September 2019, HAMA Speaks
  • Proactive Identification of Risk and Steps to Mitigate – September 2018, HAMA Speaks
  • Using External Tools to Impact Internal Performance – November 2017, HAMA Speaks
Has worked at hotelAVE since
2010
Interests and Hobbies

Ms. Kleiman enjoys food & wine, travel, and animals.  She lived in Argentina and France and adores her two cats and a dog.