[Hotel-Online] Smit Patel (MMH ’20) Will Be Honored as the John Cahill Student Seat Recipient
ATLANTA, July 23, 2019 – Hospitality Upgrade Publisher and President Rich Siegel today announced the next recipient of the John Cahill student seat will be Smit Patel, a graduate student of the Boston University School of Hospitality Administration program. The upcoming CIO Summit will be held Sept. 4-6, 2019, in Boston.
“Smit possesses a keen interest in learning all aspects of the hotel ownership and asset management disciplines. He has strong aptitudes in project management and sales modeling, and he has used his technical, operational and interpersonal skills in several roles already, including hotel sales intern and assistant manager of a property,” said Leora Halpern Lanz, graduate chair in the hospitality management department at BU.
A native of India, Patel grew up in San Diego, with schooling in Pennsylvania and now Boston. He graduated from the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University in Spring 2018. A business student with a major in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, his work experience in hospitality led him to pursue a master’s degree in Hospitality Administration. Patel hopes to one day own hotels.
The John Cahill Honorary Seat is awarded to one distinguished student from a selected university or four-year college with a hotel program. This student is recommended by his or her professors as an individual with great potential in the hotel technology industry.
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