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JLL Makes Leadership Changes to Hotels Group

JLL named Gilda Perez-Alvarado CEO of the firm’s Americas Hotels & Hospitality Group. Senior Managing Directors Jeffrey Davis and John Strauss have also been promoted to co-lead Americas Hotel Capital Markets.

NY-based Perez-Alvarado will lead investment sales, debt and equity placement, strategic advisory and asset management. She will also maintain leadership of the Global Hotel Desk, which focuses on facilitating cross-border transactions, and will continue global advisory work for JLL’s Capital Markets.

Perez-Alvarado brings 16 years of hotel industry experience, including 14 years with JLL. She most recently served as a Managing Director focused on full-service global investment sales, and managed high-profile transactions

Davis and Strauss will be responsible for overseeing investment sales and debt and equity placement across the Americas. Davis is based in New York, and leads full-service investment sales in the Mid-Atlantic region. Strauss is based in Los Angeles, and leads full-service investment sales in the Western half of the U.S., including Hawaii.

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About Dennis Kaiser

Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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