Asset Management and Operational Consulting Services

While the reasons for seeking asset management services may be varied - the overall goal is simple: to enhance, elevate and solidify a hotel asset's ability to drive value for the owner via maximized profit. This is easier said than done - the hotel industry is complex, capital intensive, labor intensive and market sensitive - with any hotel's performance being susceptible to wide variations on a day-by-day and even hour-by-hour basis.

There is no substitute for hands-on exposure over a period of many years including several industry cycles. Christian can be of assistance via a full asset-management arrangement or, when the needs are more specific, via operational consulting where he provides a third party clinical assessment of an operation's functioning on a day-to-day basis.

While the overall goal for a client seeking asset management or operational review services may be simple, the specifics of how that goal is achieved differ on a case by case basis. Christian Kettlitz understands that each of his clients has different service requirements and is able to customize his service offering accordingly to a variety of clientele, including:

• Private equity investors and  equity funds having the goal of maximizing current performance levels;
• Individual owners seeking to  polish their "trophy" properties or just keep their head above      water;
• Entrepreneurial owners - seeking  to aggressively build a portfolio when the time is right to buy;
• Lenders - often with underperforming properties and in need of guidance to avoid rash, emergency-driven decisions.