Thomas Engel
Founder, T.R. ENGEL Group, LLC
Newton, MA 02459
Phone (617) 451-1701
Property Types
Hospitality
Bio
Tom Engel is a hospitality industry leader with over 30 years of expertise, he is credited with co-creating three (3) global lodging brands—Embassy Suites Hotels, Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resorts, and Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham. Mr. Engel is founder of the T.R. ENGEL Group, LLC (TRE), a Boston-based hospitality advisory, operational asset management, and project management firm operating on a global basis.
Previously, Mr. Engel was Executive Vice President, Equitable/AXA Real Estate Investment Management Inc., where he created, then ran its worldwide lodging and leisure investment management group. Mr. Engel’s group was a full-service hospitality resource, providing both hotel debt and equity investments, conducting project management and through its asset management team was responsible for the oversight of a $2 billion portfolio of 62 hotels and resorts. Previously, Mr. Engel was a Group Brand Manager at Unilever, Inc. and Director of Marketing, at Revlon, Inc.
Mr. Engel has extensive experience with creation of hotel brands, operations planning, and creation of brand standards and procedures with luxury, upscale and extended stay hotels. Mr. Engel is a director of publicly-held The Procaccianti Hotel REIT. He is an adjunct professor at Boston University and Chairman at Boston University School of Hospitality Management’s Advisory Board. Mr. Engel is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of St. Thomas. He is also a United States Marine Corps, VMA-131 A Veteran.
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