VP of Business Development - Europe, Middle East & Africa

Highgate is a premier real estate investment and hospitality management company widely recognized as an innovator in the industry. Highgate is the dominant player in U.S. gateway markets including New York, Boston, Miami, San Francisco and Honolulu, with a rapidly expanding presence in Europe, CALA and South America. Highgate’s portfolio of global properties represents an aggregate asset value exceeding $20B and generates over $5B in cumulative revenues. The company provides expert guidance through all stages of the hospitality property cycle, from planning and development through recapitalization or disposition. Highgate also has the creativity and bandwidth to develop bespoke hotel brands and utilizes industry leading proprietary revenue management tools that identify and predict evolving market dynamics to drive out performance and maximize asset value. With an executive team consisting of some of the industry’s most experienced hotel management leaders, the company is a trusted partner for top ownership groups and major hotel brands. Highgate maintains corporate offices in London, New York, Dallas, and Seattle.

This role will be responsible for assisting in asset selection, deal negotiation and due diligence efforts. This key executive will be a confident, self-directed, team-oriented individual who is effective at deal sourcing, networking and structuring real estate transactions. This individual must develop strong relationships with a number of constituencies including employees, appropriate external constituencies, such as other hotel investors, bankers, brokers, brands and research analysts. This individual must grasp and communicate issues, strategy and decision scenarios, brand positioning and cost impacts. He/she will interface as a credible, responsive, strong and effective member of the corporate team. The key objective is to deliver on the company’s strategic growth plans by generating a steady deal flow and an efficient professional approach to execution by leveraging internal and external resources to ensure an efficient deal closing.