“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
David Sherf has a broad range of experience in the hotel industry including acquisitions and dispositions of both performing and distressed hotels, hotel development, real estate partnerships, management and franchise negotiations, hotel capital planning, asset management, and hotel operations.
Prior to joining Warnick + Company he was Senior Vice President of Hilton Hotels Corporation, responsible for Asset Management of the company's owned and joint ventured $8 billion real estate portfolio. In this position Dave also functioned as Hilton's general partner in roughly 25 jointly owned hotels and established and oversaw Owner Relations for 250 managed hotels. Dave's responsibilities also included oversight of hotel retail shops and leases.
Dave also served as Senior Vice President of Managed Development for Promus Hotels, responsible for the development, joint venture, acquisitions and franchising of Embassy Suites, Doubletree, and Homewood Suites.
Dave has an acute knowledge of hospitality real estate from an owner and investor perspective as well as brand and management perspectives and he has been a hotel receiver.
Dave is a graduate of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University and was formerly a CPA and partner with Laventhol & Horwath specializing in hospitality and real estate consulting. He serves on the Board of Advisors for the Collins College at Cal Poly Pomona, is a member of the Hotel Development Council of the Urban Land Institute, and is an Executive in Residence at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University.
2398 East Camelback Road, Suite 1150
Phoenix, AZ 85016-9018
(602) 955-9393 Ext. 3
dsherf@warnickco.com