Michael D. Armstrong

Employment

• HREC Investment Advisors® – Principal – Brokerage and investment banking company providing services exclusively to the hospitality industry.
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors – Founder/President – Headquartered in San Diego, with a an office in Dallas, TX
  • Neptune provided a full spectrum of capital advisory services including mortgage brokerage, joint venture capital raising, property sales and asset advisory services to the hospitality industry.
  • Neptune completed  over $1.5 billion in real estate sales, financing and valuations from 2001 – 2008.
• Insignia/Hotel Partners – Senior Managing Director – Hospitality brokerage practice at Insignia/ESG Hotel Partners in Newport Beach, CA.
  • Consistently among the firm’s top producers
  • In 1995 awarded ‘Deal of the Year’ for the largest single transaction
  • In 1996 was runner-up for ‘Broker of the Year’ based on transaction volume
• Metro Hotels – Vice President of Development – Dallas-based Metro Hotels and Miami-based Carnival Hotels, Resorts & Casinos
  • Added new hotels to their national property portfolio through third-party management contracts and acquisitions with institutional and private investors.

Education

University of North Texas – Denton, Texas
Bachelor of Business Administration ~ Real Estate and Finance

Professional Memberships and Licenses

Real Estate Broker – State of California
Member of the Mortgage Bankers Association – MBA
Member of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association- AAHOA