Jared Kelso joined C&W Global Hospitality’s predecessor company, Sonnenblick Goldman, in 2006 and co-heads the national hospitality capital markets practice. He has spent the last 20 years in various facets of the hospitality industry, including resort and urban-hotel operations, academia and consulting. His responsibilities include the origination and execution of sale and financing transactions, facilitating the due diligence process, and complex financial analysis, with an overall focus on ensuring an efficient marketing and closing process.

Since joining Cushman & Wakefield, Jared has completed approximately $17.0 billion in lodging transactions. His extensive deal exposure involves mid-to-large size transactions, and represents a variety of structures that include equity recapitalizations; dispositions; and acquisition, construction, and renovation financing for both single asset and portfolio transactions. Prior to joining C&W, Jared worked as a hospitality consultant for Pinnacle Advisory Group and held management positions with Marriott International at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.

Jared received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, and is a member of the national chapter of the Cornell Hotel Society.