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Tim Davis is Pace Dimensions’ leading hospitality, travel and leisure management consultant. He has over 20 years of international commercial and general management experience gained in the hospitality, travel and technology industries, bringing in-depth expertise in distribution, eCommerce, marketing and implementing technologies to drive business advantage. Tim specialises in helping businesses to transform their organisations, improve performance and gain a competitive edge.

As a Senior Director in BVA BDRC, Richard’s role is to work across the agency and ensure that BVA BDRC remains ahead of the curve in what it offers to clients, with a strong focus on innovation and harnessing capabilities from across the group. Richard is particularly experienced in customer experience, concept optimisation, market segmentations & modelling, customer satisfaction, innovation (demand forecasting, pricing, pack and claims testing), brand positioning and tracking as well as comms development and evaluation.

Louise has headed Leumi UK’s Hotel Finance team since 2008. Channeling a background in financing construction projects and market analysis, she has established herself as a respected authority in the sector and a champion of the hospitality industry. With a particular focus on boutique, luxury hotels in prime city centre locations, she has supported hoteliers and investors throughout some of the industry’s toughest times with flexible, expert-led facilities to suit the needs of their growing businesses.

Dexter is a recognised leader in hospitality design and received the AHEAD Outstanding Contribution Award in 2022. With over 30 years’ experience, he has worked with the majority of leading brands in the UK, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa.  

Phil Golding is a partner at Cedar Capital Partners, where he manages the acquisition and asset management for the company. Cedar invests exclusively in the hospitality sector with an emphasis on luxury, full service and lifestyle hotels. Over the past twenty years the firm has invested in hotels across Europe and North America with a value in excess of €4 billion and currently have AUM in excess of €1 billion.

Lee Francis is Head of Origination at prime property finance firm CapitalRise. Since joining the company, Lee has personally contributed close to 45% of revenue generated between 2022 and 2023, helping the firm double the size of its loan book during that period. He has more than a quarter of a century’s worth of financial services experience under his belt, having worked at a variety of major UK banks prior to joining CapitalRise – including HSBC, Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale and Santander – spanning sectors such as Corporate & Structured Finance and Commercial Real Estate.

Paul is a Consultant for DAC Beachcroft LLP, specialising in real estate finance.

Paul has many years' experience in hotel transactions. He has overseen the sale and purchase of hotels and hotel businesses, the financing of hotel acquisitions and developments, the negotiation and financing of hotel franchises and management contracts, and he has acted for major owners, operators and funders in the sector.

At Kew Green Hotels, Justin oversees all business development and asset management activities. Kew Green Hotels is a leading hotel management company with over 50 hotels under management worldwide across IHG, Marriott, Hilton, Accor, Wyndham and independent brands.

With extensive experience in operating highly efficient and profitable hotels that deliver a great guest experience, Kew Green Hotels is expanding internationally with recent agreements to expand into Brazil, France, Morocco, Portugal and Thailand.

Bob Silk has been with Barclays for just over 44 years, having joined the Bank as an office junior in September 1979.

He earned his first appointment as a relationship manager October 1989, and was generalist corporate banker until early 1993 when he specialised in corporate turnarounds for five years.

Mark joined Landsec in 2015 and has over 20 years’ experience working across multiple industries, including Retail with Sainsbury’s, Media with WPP and Sport with the London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games.