Richard J. Katzman

Senior Managing Partner - LATAM Region, Mexico City

Consulting Experience

Richard is HVS’s Senior Managing Partner for the Latin American Region. HVS is a global leader in providing consulting services to hotel developers and investors, hotel chains, lenders, and other participants in the hotel and tourism industry. The division under Richard’s direction is involved in the preparation of market and feasibility studies and appraisals for hotels across Mexico, Central and South America. The company analyzes varied hotel assets, ranging from economy to luxury in urban and resort settings. HVS is similarly active in the analysis of complex mixed-use and master-planned projects and participates in the formulation of expansion strategies on behalf of investors and operators.
 
Considering his broad experience in the real estate capital markets and across asset types, Richard and the LATAM team can add value in a variety of ways, as investors, developers and others pursue complex projects across emerging economies in the region. In addition, Richard is responsible for the expansion of HVS’s platform in the region, including Transaction Services and Asset Management. He also launched Mexico’s leading hotel investment conference, HVS MexHIC, which has brought together industry professionals annually for over a decade.
 
Richard has been involved in hotel and real estate advisory services in Mexico and other Latin American countries since 1992. He founded Grupo Inmobiliario Inova, a real estate advisory boutique sold in 2001 to Insignia/ESG, which later merged with CB Richard Ellis. At that time, Richard joined HVS to create a leading hotel advisory platform in the Latin American region.
 
Like many others at HVS, Richard enjoys and is committed to training associates from varied backgrounds so that they may expand their perspectives and pursue growth opportunities.
 
Richard’s prior professional experience includes positions with Laventhol & Horwath (now Horwath HTL) where he performed hotel feasibility analyses for projects in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and Fischer-Macleod Associates, a New York-based developer of regional shopping centers. Richard later joined The Yarmouth Group (later part of Morgan Stanley), where he executed acquisitions of office buildings, regional shopping centers, and hotels and managed real estate portfolios on behalf of U.S. and Japanese institutional clients. In addition, he participated in establishing the company’s presence in Europe, opening an office in Paris and overseeing investment and asset management assignments in Germany, Spain, and the U.K.
 
Richard was born and raised in Mexico City. He completed his undergraduate studies at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and earned his MBA from The Wharton School. He is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Richard has served on the Board of Trustees of The American School Foundation, A.C.

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