Jared Kelso is a Senior Managing Director for Berkadia’s Hotels & Hospitality platform in New York, NY, where he helps lead a nationally coordinated, team-centric approach to the advisory business, across both the investment sales and mortgage banking platforms, including debt placement, note sales, UCC auctions, and equity recapitalizations.
Prior to joining Berkadia, Kelso was at Cushman & Wakefield where he served as a co-head of the national hospitality capital markets practice group. His responsibilities included the origination and execution of sale and financing transactions, facilitating the due diligence process, and complex financial analysis, with an overall focus on ensuring an efficient marketing and closing process. His extensive deal exposure involves mid-to-large size transactions and represents a variety of structures that include equity recapitalizations; dispositions; and acquisition, construction, and renovation financing for both single asset and portfolio transactions. Prior to Cushman & Wakefield, Jared worked as a hospitality consultant for Pinnacle Advisory Group and held management positions with Marriott International at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.
Jared received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and is a member of the national chapter of the Cornell Hotel Society.
