Florida International University - School of Hospitality and Tourism Management

Courses Offered and Course Description

HFT 6429
Hospitality Asset Management
The role of the Asset Manager in the hospitality industry has changed drastically over the past twenty years. This course is designed to present an overview of the current role of asset managers in the industry. The course will review techniques and practices used by asset managers in their representation of ownership as overseers of the operation as well as an overview of investment decisions and financial analyses used to assist ownership in defining their objectives and the allocation of resources in the acquisition, renovation and disposal of lodging industry assets in the pursuit of those objectives.

Biography

Scott Brush has over 35 years experience in hospitality industry operations and consulting and has been based in Miami for more than twenty-five years. After graduating Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Hotel Administration he worked as a general manager and as an opening specialist in mid-market full-service hotels before joining the US Navy's "Navy Lodge" program in their New York headquarters. Offered the opportunity, he went to England in 1974 and earned a Master's degree in "Management Studies" at Durham University , England 's third oldest university, in December 1975.

After returning to the US , he assisted in opening several food service concepts on NAS Alameda and at several of the San Francisco Bay area's affiliated bases before being recruited as a general manager for a full-service, mid-market hotel at the San Francisco airport. Transferred later to Colorado Springs , he was recruited to join the consulting staff at Harris, Kerr, Forster & company in the Miami regional office. He rose through the ranks (and through company name changes to Pannell, Kerr, Forster and PKF Consulting) to become the regional director for hospitality consulting services in Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America before starting Brush & Company in early 1993.

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