
John F. Siska
Vice President
Boston, MA
Phone: 603-494-3654
Email: [email protected]
Employment
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HREC Investment Advisors - Boston, Massachusetts - September 2016 to present - Vice President - Providing a specialized focus on hospitality and resort debt placement and sales brokerage advisory services
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O'Connell Hospitality Group - June 2000 to August 2016 - Senior Vice President - Provided debt placement and sales brokerage services to institutional and private investors, as well as REIT’s, CMBS special servicers and regional lending institutions.
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Successful engagements include achieving maximum sale proceeds for Private Investors, REO lenders and special servicers with hotel sale transactions within the Northeast.
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Involved in over $250 million in hotel sales and debt assignments.
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Achieved successful construction, bridge and acquisition financing projects for client base.
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Bedford Capital Corporation - June 1994 to May 2000 - Senior Managing Director - Hotel Division - Head of Hotel investment division for this boutique investment banking company.
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Worked with Pension funds, Life Insurance companies, CMBS, REIT’s and regional and national banks providing debt within the hotel and resort industry.
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Established a strategic alliance with Allied Capital Corp. of Washington, DC as a correspondent SBA hotel lender in the Northeast.
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Successfully refinanced a regional hotel portfolio allowing the company to construct a highly successful select service hotel in a “high barrier to entry” location within minutes of downtown Boston.
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Hilton/Intercontinental Hotels – May 1982 to May 1994 – Executive Management – General Manager positions with five nationally franchised full-service hotel’s within the greater Boston metro market.
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Directed all operational and marketing efforts for a Four Diamond Hilton Full Service Hotel from 1987 until 1992.
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Worked for Peabody Hotel Group as General Manager for their Boston based IHG properties from 1982 until 1986.
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Education
University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Massachusetts
Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Administration
Professional Memberships and License’s
Licensed Broker – State of New Hampshire
Board Member - Hospitality & Tourism Management (HTM) program -University of Massachusetts Amherst
Past Board member of New Hampshire Lodging Association