41 Olive is a specialty retail store that focuses on specialty food, kitchen, and tableware. 41 Olive's internationally recognized food products are produced with 100% natural ingredients to provide a premium, quality product that the customers cherish. The company is structured around a unique environment where carefully selected "team members" are chosen to become part of the fun and enthusiastic culture that has grown the company to what is has today. In addition, the company differentiates itself with weekly cooking demonstrations, in store tasting parties, and chef presentations from book signing to cooking classes.

Lily Chai Tea is a specialty retail store that focuses on flavored and straight loose leaf tea, handmade tea drinks, and tea merchandise. Lily Chai Tea's internationally sourced products are produced with 100% natural ingredients to provide a premium, quality product that the customers cherish. The company is structured around a unique environment where carefully selected "team members" are chosen to become part of the fun and enthusiastic culture that has grown the company to what is has today.

DKN Hotels is headquartered in Irvine, California, DKN Hotels and is a leading hospitality development and management company, offering comprehensive hotel management services ranging from property development to revenue optimization. • Reconstructed from scratch “excel super model”, an acquisition model to analyze and identify opportunistic assets based on chosen investment criteria. Created separate models for such as: IRR, Proforma, Cash/Cash Return, Acquisition, EBITDA, RevPar Index• Successfully organized disposition of low tiered real estate assets for availability of capital for ground up development projects post-recession• Sourced and Negotiated several Joint Venture agreements and partnership developments from Shea Properties and Little America Corporation • Sourced and organized development of several ground up and renovation projects. For example: Homewood Suites John Wayne Airport with mixed use of retail, office, and hotel; opening Summer 2016• Completed a comprehensive appraisal and exit strategy for the entire real estate portfolio to allow for strategic financial planning such as refinancing or disposing of under performing assets• Prepared comprehensive company lodging report & presentation by analyzing national and regional metrics by assess supply/demand using STR, ADR, Occupancy, RevPAR, and comp set.

• Researched Macro and Micro Lodging real estate market trends such as revenue & occupancy reduction during recession, future trends for supply & demand, which identified opportunities within certain markets for lodging development.• Worked with Director of Real Estate to project future trends of Commercial Mortgage Back Securities (CMBS) in company annual lodging report; concluded in “bubble” time range of specific CMBS and to assist in creating an investment strategy that benefited the firm upon exit of Recession of 2007 - 2009.

• Researched global supply and demand for boutique hotel assets and formulated analysis of top 2 competitors to Hilton’s boutique hotel brand, Denizen showing low barriers of entry for Hilton’s selected markets such as Paris, Hawaii, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta• Arranged findings and presented to Hilton’s Europe-Asia Development Director about competitors such as Marriott and Starwood to show Hilton’s overoptimistic views of brand performance.

• Prepared valuation & appraisal of Crown Plaza Hotel & Convention Center using JLL excel model which metrics such as PROFORMA, market comparable, IRR, DCF, EBITDA multiples; analysis demonstrated hotel assets was undervalued and conversion of brand and development of convention space increased value for profitable exit. • Presented valuation proposal to Managing Director for North America for Lodging. Understood investor point of view by physically touring hotel property and concluded in extensive understanding of quality condition of hotel assets and local market trends