Meet the BHR Contributors

Robin Brown

Founder and Principal, Spot On Ventures

Laura McKoy

Vice President, Omni Hotels & Resorts

Michael Morris

CEO, The Food Hall Co.

Larry Traxler

SVP Global Design Services, Architecture & Design – Hilton Worldwide Hotels & Resorts

Roger Drake

Marketing and Public Relations Executive Consultant, Condado Tacos

Dylan Huey

Gen Z Founder, TedX Speaker, Digital Creator & Musician at Rodin’ Flash

Jim  Joseph

CEO, U.S. and Global Chief Marketing and Integration Officer, Ketchum 

Sandra King

Principal and Founder, STKing Associates LLC

Lindsay Milne

Vice President, Marketing, Meet Boston

Adam Wallace

Founder & CEO, Spherical

Nelson Boyce

Managing Director, Google

Julie Freeman

Executive Vice President, Public Relations, Americas, MMGY Global

Michael J. Goldrich

Founder and Chief Advisor, Vivander Advisors

Terrell Jones

Keynote Speaker, Author, Innovation & Disruption Expert, Founder Travelocity, Founding Chairman Kayak.com

Marc Mazodier

Professor and Head of Department, ESSEC Business School

Kendall McCreary

Influencer Marketing Strategist, bread & Butter

Pete Rosenblum

President, MAP360 Collective

Greg F. Burke

Chief Patient Experience Officer, Geisinger Health System

Ian Carter

Chairman, Watches of Switzerland Group PLC

Richard Coraine

Chief Operating Officer, Union Square Hospitality Group

Will Guidara

Author, Unreasonable Hospitality;
Host, Welcome Conference;
Founder, Thank You Agency

Jonathan Katz

Lecturer, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration;
Partner, ACOM Healthcare;
Board Member, National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association

Tim McLaughlin

Co-founder and CEO, GoTab, Inc.

Tatiana Panyukova

Business Consultant, Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer;
Professor, Université Côte d’Azur & SKEMA Business School

Richard A. Currie

Leadership Edition Editor; Assistant Professor; Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Sarah Diehl

Founder and Principal, Empowered Hospitality

Sean McGinley

Associate Professor, Florida State University Dedman College of Hospitality

Ravi S. Ramani

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management at Morgan State University

Quendrida Whitmore

Quendrida Whitmore Coaching & Consulting

R.J. Melman

President, Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants

Jerry Murrell

CEO, Five Guys

Patti Simpson

Chief Administrative Officer, Union Square Hospitality Group

Tawanda Starms

Vice President of RSC People Experience and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Chipotle Mexican Grill

Dennis Ausiello

Jackson Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH)

David Edwards

Brain Food Edition Editor; Founder and CSO, Sensory Cloud

Rachel Field

Co-founder, Sensory Cloud

Marty Kolewe

CEO, Foodberry

Ellen Langer

Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author, widely regarded as founder of the academic field of mindfulness

Nancy Rawson

Acting Director and President, Monell Chemical Senses Center

Touré Roberts

CEO, Touré Enterprises; Founder, ONE

Jonathan Katz

Lecturer, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration;
Partner, ACOM Healthcare;
Board Member, National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association

Werner Kunz

Professor of Marketing, University of Massachusetts

Makarand Mody

Consumer Behavior Edition Editor;
Associate Professor of Hospitality Marketing at Boston University
Chair of Undergraduate Program (Interim)
Director of Research, Boston University – School of Hospitality Administration

Stefanie Paluch

Professor of Marketing, RWTH Aachen University

Juliette Van Vleck

Boston University ’23; Managing Editor, Emerald Review

Jochen Wirtz

Professor of Marketing, National University of Singapore

Jason Chang

SHA ’22; Accounting Manager, Cambria Somerville

Leora Lanz

Digital Marketing Edition Editor;
Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs; Faculty Chair of the Graduate Program; Associate Professor of the Practice, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Mackenzie Miers

SHA ’21; MMH ’22

Mai Shalvi

SHA ’22; MMH ’22

Scott Eckstein

Senior Living Edition Editor; Director, Senior Living Concentration and Adjunct Professor, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration; Managing Director, Active Living International; Strategic Advisor, CiminoCare

Fara Gold McLaughlin

Chief Revenue Officer, Senior Housing Foresight; Adjunct Professor, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Cindy Hale

Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing and Experience Officer, Seniorlink

Bob Kramer

Co-founder & Strategic Advisor, NIC

Beth Mace

Chief Economist and Director of Research & Analytics, NIC

Lana Peck

Senior Principal, NIC

John Barton

Student, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Peter Bheda

Chairman & CEO, Frontera Hotel Group; Executive Chairman, Boldface Hospitality; and Lecturer, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Lilly Jan

Lecturer, Food & Beverage Management at Cornell University

Arturo Molina-Collado

Professor of Marketing, Department of Business Administration at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain

Taylor Peyton

Leadership Edition Editor;
Assistant Professor of Leadership and Workplace Psychology, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Sandra Sun-Ah Ponting

Assistant Professor, L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism Management San Diego State University

Alex Pratt

Area Director of Human Resources, Omni Hotels & Resorts

Gregg Rockett

Professor of the Practice, THe Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Hotel & Tourism Management

Alexa Rostvosky

Student, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Priya Tewani

MMH ’22 Candidate, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Rod Clough

President, HVS Americas

Charlotte Kang

Managing Director in the Valuation & Advisory Service Group at Jones Lang LaSalle

Ingo Schweder

Founder & CEO at GOCO Hospitality, Managing Director at Horwath HTL Health & Wellness

Richard A. Currie

Leadership Edition Editor; Assistant Professor; Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

E’Lisha V. Fogle

Assistant Professor; The Collins College of Hospitality Management at California State Polytechnic University

Juan M. Madera

Professor; Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, University of Houston

James A. Williams

Associate Professor at University of Tennesse

Deanne Williams-Bryant

Professor and Director, School of Hospitality Management, Bethune-Cookman University

Yunmei (Mabel) Bai

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue University;
Visiting Faculty, College of Hospitality at University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Sean Jung

Assistant Professor of Hospitality Analytics, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Hong Soon Kim

Assistant Professor, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue University

Mark Legg

Data Analytics Edition Editor;
Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Michael Mancini

Industry Consultant

Chris Novak

Chief Data Science & Analytics Officer, Eden Collective

Chun-Hung (Hugo) Tang

Associate Professor, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue University

Timothy Webb

Timothy Webb, P.h.D., Assistant Professor of Hospitality Business Management – Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics

Shaniel Bernard

Assistant professor; Hospitality & Tourism Management Department in the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech

Simone Bianco

Ph.D. Student; Hospitality & Tourism Management Department in the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech

Sunny Ham

Professor; Department of Food & Nutrition, Yonsei University
Head of the Graduate School of Human Environmental Sciences in Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management

Yoon Jung Jang

Assistant Professor; Food Service & Culinary Arts Management, School of Hotel, Restaurant, & Culinary Arts, Woosong University

Chang-Sik Kim

Assistant Professor; Department of Hotel & Tourism, Baewha Women’s University

Eojina Kim

Assistant Professor; Howard Feiertag Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech

Vivica I. Kraak

Associate Professor; Food and Nutrition Policy, Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech

Seoki Lee

Corporate Social Responsibility Edition Editor;
Associate Professor; School of Hospitality Management, Pennsylvania State University

Yuan Li

Assistant Professor; Hart School of Hospitality, Sport and Recreation Management, James Madison University

Juan M. Madera

Professor; Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, University of Houston

Ashokkumar Manoharan

Senior Lecturer; Strategic Management at the College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University

Manisha Singal

Corporate Social Responsibility Edition Editor;
Associate Professor; Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech

Jihwan Yeon

Doctoral Candidate; School of Hospitality Management, Pennsylvania State University

Hyejin Yoon

Assistant Professor; Department of Hotel & Tourism, Baewha Women’s University
Editor-in-Chief, University Press and Broadcasting Center at Baewha Women’s University

Mingming Cheng

Senior Lecture in Digital Marketing, Curtin University

Sungwoo Choi

Research Assistant Professor, The School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Lisa Gao

Assistant Professor, School of Hotel and Tourism Management at Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Alex Gibson

Assistant Head of School, School of Marketing, Technological University Dubin

Lydia Hanks

Consumer Behavior Edition Editor;
Senior Professor of Hospitality, Florida State University

James Houran

Managing Director, AETHOS Consulting Group

Ksenia Kirillova

Associate Professor, Institute Paul Bocuse

Soey Sut leng Lei

Lecturer, Macao Institute for Tourism Studies

Nathan Line

Professor, The Dedman College of Hospitality at Florida State University

Lu Lu

Assistant Professor, Temple University

Makarand Mody

Consumer Behavior Edition Editor;
Associate Professor of Hospitality Marketing at Boston University
Chair of Undergraduate Program (Interim)
Director of Research, Boston University – School of Hospitality Administration

Bruce Tracey

Kenneth and Marjorie Professor of Human Resource Management, Cornell University

Lisa C. Wan

Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong;
Director, The Centre for Hospitality and Real Estate Research

Dan Wang

Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Wei Wei

Associate Professor; Rosen College, University of Central Florida

Lu Zhang

Associate Professor, Michigan State University

Lyndsey Bjork

Associate Market Manager, Expedia Group

Marco Ferrari

Owner, Marco Ferrari Branding

Théophile Griveaux

Finance Projects Trainee, Hilton at Europe

Jenna Jiampetro

Guest Relations Manager, Montage Hotels & Resorts

Jonathan Katz

Lecturer, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration;
Partner, ACOM Healthcare;
Board Member, National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association

Leora Lanz

Digital Marketing Edition Editor;
Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs; Faculty Chair of the Graduate Program; Associate Professor of the Practice, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Anh Pham

Office & Business Manager, Chez Accetal

Iwane Rousset Jocteur Monrozier

Assistant Revenue Manager, chez Thalazur

Jason Chang

SHA ’22; Accounting Manager, Cambria Somerville

Elizabeth Karakachian

SHA ’18
Senior Analyst, Marketing Data Operations at Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.

Mackenzie Miers

SHA ’21; MMH ’22

Mariana Safer

Director of Digital Marketing, Commercial Tiered Services,
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants

Scott Savitt

Senior Partner, Director of Digital,
Connelly Partners & Shield 46,
Lecturer, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Max Starkov

Hospitality & Online Travel Tech Consultant and Strategist

Apostolos Ampountolas

Revenue Management Edition Editor; Assistant Professor of Hospitality Finance and Revenue Management, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration; Chair of Undergraduate Programs

Agnes DeFranco

Professor and Conrad N. Hilton Distinguished Chair, Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel & Restaurant Management, University of Houston

Jaewook Kim

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Houston – Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management

Minwoo Lee

P.h.D., Assistant Professor, University of Houston – Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management

Misuk Lee

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Seattle University – Information Systems at the Albers School of Business and Economics

Zvi Schwartz

P.hD., Professor, University of Delaware – Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics

Timothy Webb

Timothy Webb, P.h.D., Assistant Professor of Hospitality Business Management – Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics

Agnes DeFranco

Professor and Conrad N. Hilton Distinguished Chair, Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel & Restaurant Management, University of Houston

Nan Hua

Professor and Chair, Department of Hospitality Services at Rosen College

Arthur Huang

Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida

Ersem Karadag

Vice President, Association of North America Higher Education International

Murat Kizildag

Associate Professor, University of Central Florida’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management

Melih Madanoglu

Michael A. Leven Endowed Chair
Professor in Hospitality Management, M.A. Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship, & Hospitality

Marcos Medeiros

Graduate Research and Teaching Associate, University of Central Florida

Ozgur Ozdemir

Finance Edition Editor;
Assistant Professor, William F. Harrah College of Hospitality at University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Kwanglim Seo

Associate Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa

A.J. Singh

Ph.D. ISHC, Professor and Founding Director, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Robert C. Vackar College of Business, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Amrik Singh

Finance Edition Editor;
Associate Professor, Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management, University of Denver

Bing Wang

Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Sloan F. Dean III

Chief Executive Officer & President, Remington Hotels

Ryan Giffen

California State University Assistant Professor of Hospitality Management

Carina Hopper

Business Sustainability Lecturer & Co-Founder La Belle EDuC

Phillip Jolly

Elizabeth M. King Assistant Professor, Penn State University

Lindsey Lee

Assistant Professor, Temple University

Chris Mumford

Founder, Cervus Leadership Consulting

Lori Sipe

Associate Professor, San Diego State University

Johanna Wagner

Consultant and University Lecturer
Co-Founder of La Belle EDuC

Heyao Yu

Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University

John Avanzino

Senior Financial Analyst, CBRE Hotels

Zach Bowyer

Managing Director, JLL’s Executive Committee for Valuation & Advisory Services

Sean Cuthbertson

Executive Vice President, LW Hospitality Advisors

Jonathan Jaeger

Senior Managing Director, LW Hospitality Advisors

Daniel H. Lesser

President & CEO, LW Hospitality Advisors

Serena Lipton

Analyst, JLL Valuation & Advisory Services

John O’Neill

PhD, Professor of Hospitality Management and Director of the Hospitality Real Estate Strategy Group, Pennsylvania State University

Chad F. Sorensen

Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer, CHMWarnick

Gabriel Stein

Senior Associate, CHMWarnick

Brian Testorf

Senior Associate, LW Hospitality Advisors

Kaushik Vardharajan

Associate Professor of the Practice;
Director, Real Estate Program;
Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program

Robert Webster

President, CBRE Hotels’ Institutional Group