Ashray Kumar Email and Phone Number

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Financial and Managerial Accounting• Conduct weekly tutoring hours for students that face difficulty in understanding accounting

Beacon Capital Partners is a value-add oriented private real estate investment firm which invests in commercial office assets located in premier domestic markets.

• Spearheaded acquisition underwriting for an asset worth ~$180M in default; underwrote the asset for two scenarios: purely independent vs. current affiliation; recommended preferred equity hold/sell strategies • Consulted on a new development analyzing current and future market demand and supply, hotel programming, brand affiliation and proforma projections• Provided advisory services focused on driving incremental hotel revenues by substituting 13% of transient room nights with group business to provide incremental revenues of $1.3 M and generate $600K of additional net operating income• Budgeted performance for a newly constructed hotel with inclement weather conditions through analysis of historical weather conditions, enplanements, STR Trend Report with a variance of ± 1% to actual performance YTD• Created business plans consisting of property inspections, market overview, comp-set overview, financial projections and investment valuation for four properties under asset management for a foreign investor; recommended hold / sell strategies

• Designed a fixed revenue stream by collaborating with HR teams of multinational corporations like HVS in order to increase kitchen utilization during off-peak hours• Operated pop-up restaurants during multiple food festivals; used historical sales reports to effectively price products to maximize profits from such festivals• Managed vendors and business to business clients; reduced food cost by 8%; increased revenue by 200%