HHM Hotels has promoted Shawn Tuli and Dani Elhachem to managing partner, in addition to their respective and continuing roles as chief investment officer and COO.
In these newly expanded roles, Elhachem and Tuli will ensure that HHM Hotels continues its focus on the quality and development of its leadership team and overall capabilities. Among their priorities are a continued investment in revenue generation and distribution, lifestyle execution, restaurants and bars and technology-enabled platforms to drive margins and scalability across the platform, according to the company.
“Our founding partners established the managing partner designation to represent a shift from functional leadership to shared stewardship and long-term accountability for the success of our company, our team, and our owners,” said Naveen Kakarla, president/CEO, HHM Hotels. “I have worked alongside Shawn and Dani for decades, and their elevation is both natural and well-deserved. I have no doubt in their ability and focus on building the specific teams, systems and capabilities that are required to maintain our growth and outperform on behalf of our owners.”
Tuli has been the primary architect of HHM Hotels’ growth strategy for more than a dozen years. His leadership has been instrumental in building the firm’s joint venture investment and asset management platforms, as well as securing key financial investors. In his expanded role, he will continue to drive growth strategy while increasing focus on fostering a robust culture that supports operators, corporate service teams and owners.
Elhachem is the lead architect of HHM Hotels’ operating platform. He has successfully scaled critical departments within the business, including luxury and lifestyle, distribution and commercial and strategic operations.
“As managing partners, Tuli and Elhachem will now work alongside me to guide our company’s overall strategy and culture at HHM Hotels,” Kakarla added, “We will push each other to maintain our continued and unrelenting focus on driving value for our owners and on improving opportunities for our associates.”
