SPEAKERS 2025

SAHIC’s speakers are prominent members of the hotel investment community. Their expertise, practical advice and forecast will provide attendees with the latest information on development, trends and best practice in the hotel investment industry.

If you would like to be considered to be one of the Speakers in 2025, please contact us.

Gustavo Tutuca

State Secretary of Tourism of Rio de Janeiro – State Secretariat of Tourism of Rio de Janeiro

Carlos Menezes Sobral

National Secretary for Infrastructure, Credit, and Investments Ministry of Tourism of Brazil

Cláudio Castro e Silva

Eduardo da Costa Paes

Mayor of Rio de Janeiro -Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro

Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro

Sergio de Almeida

President - TurisRio

Sidney Levy

President - Invest.Rio

CEO - Accor Americas - PM&E Division

Kathleen “Leeny” Oberg

Thomas Dubaere

CFO & Executive VP Development - Marriott International

Camil Yazbeck

Reinier Schliesser

Chieko Aoki

Ron Pohl

Cristián Roberts

Abel Castro

Luis Mirabelli

Luca Franco

VP Development - Accor - Hispanic America  & Caribbean - PM&E Division

CEO & Founder, Luxury Frontiers

Luis Barrios

Executive President, Promotora y Operadora de Hoteles Norte 19

Daniel Cordova

Mauro Rial

Ana Ramirez

LEED AD, WELL AP. - Principal, KALĀ Design Group - Co-Founder Ancestral Handmade Hotels

Ricardo Mader

Cristiano Gonçalves

Managing Director LATAM - JLL VALUATION & ADVISORY SERVICES, LLC.

VP Development, South America & the Caribbean, Hyatt Hotels Corporation

Raúl Calvet

Amrita Bhalla

Maurice Chartier

Peter Greenberg

Founding Managing Partner Grupo Consutur

Travel Editor,
CBS News

Founder - MARAEY

Director of Development CALA,
Marriott International

Cristián Roberts

Paula Peláez Zambrano

Director of Gender and Social Inclusion, IDB Invest

Sr. Director Design & Project Management | CALA  Marriott International

Hotel Development, CALA - Marriott International

Ricardo Manarini

Country Manager - Brazil,
BWH Hotels

Cristián Roberts

Fernando Fernandez

VP Development - Inclusive Collection - Hyatt

Cristián Roberts

Ricardo Souza

Revenue Growth Leader - Mexico, Latin America and The Caribbean - Lighthouse

Cristián Roberts

Paulo Augusto Mendonca

Partner - Marrey Mendonca Advogados

Cristián Roberts

Jessica Alomía Mendez

Investment and Connectivity Director - Ministry of Tourism Ecuador

Luis Alberto Tito

Gastão Valente

Hotel Development Director Latin America,
BWH Hotels

Managing Director - GIC

Cristián Roberts

Luciana Kuzuhara

Sr. Manager, Development Brazil - Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

Pedro Cardoso

Edouard Schwob

VP Procurement Astore – Accor Americas - PM&E Division

SVP Development - Accor Americas - Luxe & Lifestyle

Danilo Monteiro

Senior Director – CBRE Capital Market

Juan Camilo Castaño

CDO - GHL Hoteles

Santiago Berraondo

Senior Vice President,
JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group

Daniel Arevalo

Senior Investment Officer,
IDB Invest

Gabriela Patocchi

Vicepresident, EDSA

Cristián Roberts

Juan Carlos Ordoñez

Development Director - SIXSTAR Hotels

Principal Economist, CAF Development Bank of Latin America and The Caribbean

Global Chief Development Officer - Accor - PM&E Division

Gustavo Viescas

Rogerio Basso

President,Wyndham Hotel & Resorts LATAMC

Head of Tourism, IDB Invest

President of WorldHotels and International Operations,
BWH Hotels

Founder & CEO, Blue Tree Hotels

Arturo García Rosa

Emilio Izquierdo

CEO Proyecto “MARAEY”

President & CEO,SAHIC

Chief Development Officer -  Accor  Americas - PM&E Division

Bojan Kumer

Patricia Boo

Regional Vice President, Hotel Development, Caribbean & South America, Marriott International

Regional Director, Latin America, STR

Paula Muniz

Tiffany Cooper

Head of Development, Melia Hotels International

Head Development Americas, Mandarin Oriental

Chief Operations Officer - Accor - NHAM region (North, Hispanic Americas) - PM&E Division

Director of Business Investment Promotion Division, PROMPERÚ

Carolina Pinheiro

VP Development LATAM, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

Advisory Board Member for Women in Tourism and Hospitality in Canada

CEO, Managing Partner, Market Intelligence & Advisory,
Colliers CAAC

Richard Rehwaldt

Vice President, Latin America, BWH Hotels

Moise Politi

Caio Calfat

Managing Partner, REC Gestao de Recursos

President, ADIT Brazil

Andrés Fajardo

CEO, GHL Hoteles

Vinicius Medeiros

Marco Larrea

Chief Editor - Hotelier News

Principal, EDSA

Joanna Ayala

Emilio Izquierdo Jiménez

Paulo Mancio

Executive Director – CBRE Hospitality

MIchael Leon Volko

Liora Haymann

Senior Director Development, South America,
Marriott International

Managing Director & Principal, OBMI

Victor Venãncio Dias

Claudia Piña

Director of Digital Solutions LatAm - SAMSON GROUP

Development Manager - Accor - Colombia, Ecuador & Peru - PM&E Division

Hiram Della Croce

Renato Carvalho

Fernanda Bertolini

Armando Ramirez

Director, Development Argentina, Brazil & Paraguay Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

Pedro Simōes

Gerente de inteligência de mercado - Invest.Rio

Raphaela Freitas Rocha

Executive Manager - AgeRio

Director, Operations Brazil, Bolivia & Chile - Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

Leonardo Mesías Martínez

Principal Executive - Sustainable Tourism Division- CAF- Development Bank of Latin America and The Caribbean

Marcelo Dzik

CFO - Even

Jorge Zaragoza Alaniz

Director, Development  – Accor - Mexico, Central America & Caribbean - PM&E Division

Rodrigo Reali

Director of Investments -HSI

Gustavo Rezende

CEO - Grupo GR - Wyndham Olimpia- Wyndham Gramado

Santiago Porta

Head Origination & amp; Structuring – Real Estate and Manufacturing - IFC World Bank Group

Paulo Eduardo de Oliveira Malheiros

Director - Westin All-inclusive - Porto de Galinhas

Diogo Canteras

Founding Partner, HotelInvest

Juan Paredes

Director of Development Latin America & Caribbean,
Marriott International

Osvaldo Chudnobsky

Managing Partner - Brazil , Horwath HTL