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Silvie Cohen

Senior Vice President

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Education
  • Bachelor of Science, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University

Silvie Cohen

Senior Vice President

Silvie has over 12 years years of hospitality experience and is currently responsible for a portfolio of lifestyle assets, many of which generate equal F&B and rooms revenue. As Senior Vice President, her primary role is to identify value-add strategies from both a revenue and expense standpoint, while ensuring operators utilize best practices to maximize top and bottom lines for both branded and independent hotels, with a focus on the luxury and lifestyle segment. Silvie is fluent in revenue management strategy, tools, and analyses, as well as expense optimization. She has executed multiple operator transitions and successfully managed critical path timelines to execute a business plan for pre-opening and ramp up hotels, expediting their stabilization. Silvie contributes to the firm’s best practices, including development of a dynamic excel model to forecast RevPAR index growth for hotels, as well as the company’s highly dynamic budget template.

  • Before joining hotelAVE, Silvie worked for Fenway Enterprises, The Boston Red Sox hospitality department, specializing in selling and servicing events as well as tracking monthly departmental sales
  • Silvie was also a Property Management Intern for The Richmond Company where she completed site visits to evaluate tenant’s experience and created general journal entries and reconciled bank accounts on a monthly basis to manage property transactions

Silvie graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Hotel Administration. She is a Certified Hotel Administrator (CHA) and a member of the Hospitality Asset Managers Association (HAMA). Silvie has written multiple articles, including most recently Winning Crucial Group Business (2025), Five Tips to Profit as Pent-Up Demand Finally Emerges (2022), and Top Ten F&B Technology Trends (2021).

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“hotelAVE takes a very collaborative approach to working with operators to drive results through sharing best practices and industry benchmarks.  Using their vast database, hotelAVE is able to pinpoint specific areas of opportunity to drive incremental value for Owners.”

Affiliations and Certifications
  • Cornell Hotel Society (CHS) – New York Chapter: Member
  • Big Apple Update: Panel Organizer (2019) and Volunteer
  • Hospitality Asset Manager Association (HAMA): Member
Publications/Articles
  • Winning Crucial Group Business – July 2025, Hotel Investment Today
  • Market in Decline? – December 2019, Hotel Asset Management Magazine
  • How to Ensure a Seamless Budget Process – October 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
2014
Interests and Hobbies

Silvie is both a foodie and a Boston sports fan.