• My accomplishments include providing property valuation, market demand assessment, investment analysis, market repositioning, & acquisition & development advisory services to hundreds of clients nationwide. I have also been involved in resolving disputes, restructuring loans & other agreements, & working out troubled hotel & resort assets, including golf courses, master-planned communities, timeshares, spas, casinos, National & State parks, & theme parks.

• I have testified as an expert witness in venues including jury trials in California, Florida & Texas courts, AAA- & JAMS-sponsored arbitration panels, Federal Bankruptcy Court, & mediations. My valuation qualifications & expertise have resulted in many unique assignments, such as a recent one involving appraising the Grand Canyon, for which I was awarded the coveted James Felt Creative Counseling Award by the Counselors of Real Estate. My experience as a hotel industry expert in disputes in the past few years involves more than 130 hotels, 20,000 hotel rooms, five National Parks, & $2 billion of hotel assets.

• Additionally, I have provided assistance to hotel owners in the areas of negotiating ground leases, loan documents, franchise agreements, management contracts, development agreements, financing arrangements, design-build agreements, concession contracts, tax-exempt bond financings & partnership agreements.

• As Principal with KPMG Peat Marwick, I was the primary resource in the western U.S. for hotel development & financing issues, particularly full-service urban & resort properties.

• I have conducted appraisals, workouts &/or the original market feasibility studies on dozens of full-service resorts over the past twenty-five years, totaling over $12 billion in assets.

• I have co-authored an article entitled “How to Value Commercial Improvements in a National Park” in the Winter 2000/Spring 2001 edition of Real Estate Issues; a chapter entitled “Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Hospitality Industry” in the textbook Hotel Investments: Issues & Perspectives, 4th edition; & an article entitled “Issue Review Boards™ – The Next Wave of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Hospitality Industry.

• I am President of Maurice Robinson & Associates LLC, providing advisory services to investors & developers in the Hospitality & Real Estate industries. Prior to founding Maurice Robinson & Associates LLC in 1999, I was a Principal with KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, leading their western region Hospitality & Real Estate consulting practice for twelve years (1986-1998). Prior to KPMG, I was a Senior Consultant & Manager in the real estate & hospitality consulting practice of Pannell Kerr Forster (now PKF Consulting) for five years (1982-1986). My previous work experience also includes three years as senior economist with the real estate consulting firm of Williams-Kuebelbeck & Associates (1979-1982), & a year as an independent consultant (1978).

• I hold a Real Estate Appraisal certificate from the State of California; a master of public administration degree with a specialty in Municipal Finance from the University of Southern California; a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota; a certificate of environmental management with a specialty in public/private partnerships from the Environmental Management Institute in Los Angeles; & a professional designation in financial planning from UCLA.

• I have completed training in arbitration, both as a panel member & chairperson, with the NASD Dispute Resolution, as well as with the Institute of Conflict Management (ICM), & have been selected to serve as an Arbitrator, both for the NASD & AAA. In five of my most recent 3-member arbitrations, I served as the Chairperson of the panels. I am also a trained & experienced Mediator, having completed Mediation Training courses by the L. A. County Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Services & ICM, & successfully mediated hospitality & real estate-related cases.

• I am a frequent lecturer at various real estate & hospitality industry-related seminars & conferences across the United States, & have spoken more than two dozen times at national & local hotel industry conferences over the past 25 years. Some of my most recent panels included the topics of Litigation Support Services, Alternative Dispute Resolution, & Arbitration Opportunities in the Hospitality Industry. I was the editor of KPMG’s Hospitality Update newsletter in the mid-1990s, & served on the Program Planning Committee of the annual UCLA Hotel Industry Investment Conference for six years. I have also been a Guest lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley’s MBA program.

I am a member of the Board of Directors of the prestigious International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC), & am Chairman of the Professional Conduct Committee. Other professional memberships include the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE), where I am a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, as well as the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), & the Forensic Expert Witness Association (FEWA). I am also a member of the Board of Arbitrators for the National Association of Security Dealers (NASD) Regulation, Inc.

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