Gerard Hickel Bio

Mr. Hickel has over 20 years of experience advising key players in the hospitality industry, including owners, operators, asset managers, developers, boutique franchisors and investors. He has a detailed understanding of hospitality assets and the critical business functions that impact ownership and operation of hotels, resorts, spas, golf courses, social clubs, condominiums, restaurants and other food & beverage related businesses. Given his work for both owners and operators, he is uniquely positioned to advise any party at the table. An experienced negotiator of hundreds of hotel management agreements across all types of hotels and resorts ranging from branded urban-luxury to boutique branded assets to select service projects, he is intimately familiar with the complex inner-workings of multi-faceted hospitality projects, including the cross-functioning dynamics of individual departments within a larger hotel operating business.