Surfvana’s Management Team
Jared Steinberg, Founder Surfvana
Jared is an entrepreneur and investor with over 20 years of commercial real estate investment experience spanning private investment sponsorship (including hospitality), banking, institutional asset management, development and construction. Jared has broad expertise including full lifecycle investment experience, from acquisition and concept design, through to construction, stabilization, asset management and disposition. Jared holds a Master's Degree in real estate development & investment from New York University and a bachelor's degree in business (Marketing) from Quinnipiac University. linkedin.com/in/steinbergjared
Frank Orenstein, CEO Hospitality Investors Group
Frank has developed many hotels worldwide over the span of his career and provided strategic advice to major international corporations. He started his hospitality career as the Executive VP of Development for Four Seasons, where he helped create the initial concept and expand it around North America and Europe. In 1998, Frank became Vice-Chairman of the Park Plaza Hotels and Resorts in partnership with Olympus Real Estate and Hicks Muse and in 2000 sold the company to Carlson Companies. Frank is a graduate of Toronto & Queens University Law School and resides in Palm Beach, Florida.
Surfvana’s Advisory Team
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Timothy Whitehead
ASSET MANAGEMENT
30+ years in hospitality, Timothy managed prestigious hotels like the Cavendish and Brown’s in London before spending 15 years with Westin Hotels in cities such as Copenhagen, Montreal, Winnipeg, and Ottawa. He later served as VP & General Manager at Toronto’s Royal York under Canadian Pacific Hotels (now Fairmont) and held senior roles with AFM Hospitality, overseeing 15 hotels across Canada and the United States.
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Maxine Lowe
DESIGN ADVISOR
Director of Design & Development, Hospitality Investors Group. Maxine spearheads design and development planning, with a range of experience across real estate, construction, quantitative surveying, architecture, project management and real estate investment sales. Maxine holds a BSc in Hotel Administration from Cornell University, accompanied by minors in Real Estate and Design & Environmental Analysis.
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Peter Northing
BRAND ADVISOR
CEO SimplyxDigital. A business leader and board advisor, creating & executing ambitious international growth strategies in digital media businesses. International leadership roles in Media, Content, Mobile, and Telco at businesses such as Red Bull, Three UK, Disney, Coca-Cola and NBC Universal. Board advisor to Greyhairworks Ltd.
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Anthony Tropea
RESIDENCE SALES REPRESENTATIVE
Managing Partner and Director, Hospitality Investors Group. Anthony’s expertise includes boutique real estate brokerage, including commercial, residential, greenfield land development, retail, industrial as well as investment opportunities.
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Tim Darcy
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, PARTNERSHIPS
Partner at humble ventures, Co-founder Smartest Studio, Tim is an accomplished business development, media executive, and deal-maker specializing in content strategy, strengthening revenue, partnerships, product. and marketing strategies with 20+ years experience leading cross-functional sales, strategy, and BD teams in the U.S. and Internationally at Paramount Global (linkedin.com/in/timdarcy).
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Ajit Verghese
GROWTH & INNOVATION STRATEGY
Founder, humble ventures. A 4X founder, focused on addressing the gaps between startups and enterprise organizations through open innovation and Lean Startup methodologies. Ajit advises Fortune 100s, academia, and startups on growth, innovation, digital transformation, and partnerships strategies. humble ventures is a development collective that accelerates growth and solves problems for diverse entrepreneurs and organizations developing solutions for diverse audiences.