Managing Director & Co-Head of Global Hotel Group
Managing Director & Co-Head of Global Hotel Group
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Steve Goldman is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Hotel Group at Starwood Capital Group. In this role, Mr. Goldman oversees the Firm’s hospitality acquisition activities, as well as asset management of the Firm’s hospitality investments. Mr. Goldman previously led sourcing, structuring, underwriting and investment execution in the hospitality and leisure sectors in the Americas at Starwood Capital Group. Mr. Goldman has more than 40 years of lodging industry investment experience within private equity, public company and family businesses. He has held Chief Executive Officer roles at two NYSE lodging REITS: FelCor Lodging Trust (through the integration of its merger with RLJ Lodging Trust), and Sunstone Hotel Investors. Mr. Goldman served as President of SH Group (now called Starwood Hotels), Barry Sternlicht’s innovative hotel brand management company, and as Chief Executive Officer of Societe du Louvre, a Paris-based holding company owned by an affiliate of Starwood Capital that owned both luxury and economy hotel real estate, brand and management companies. Mr. Goldman held senior acquisitions and asset management roles for Hilton Worldwide, Hyatt Hotels Corp. Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide and the Walt Disney Company. Mr. Goldman received a B.S. degree from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, and an MBA concentrating in finance from the University of Chicago.
