John Sears is a 25-year career hotelier and professional consultant whose pedigree includes Mobil awarded five-star hotel management. John is certified in hotel feasibility studies and hotel valuations by Switzerland’s Glion University School of Hospitality.  Prior to BHA, John served as vice president of marketing & development for Switzerland based Boutique Hotels & Resorts International S.A., where he led the company growth to one-hundred-four hotels in thirty-six countries and worked first-hand with each hotel’s investors and management teams. John has been a featured speaker at many worldwide hotel industry events and has worked with 500+ hotel projects in 100+ countries, visits over 100 hotels per year, and is a respected authority in hotel performance, development, valuations, and acquisitions.

Jeff Lefkovich is a Project Manager with BHA.  Jeff brings 30 years of experience in planning, strategy, design, and development of real estate projects that include mixed-use, residential, hospitality, senior living, wellness centers, commercial, and health care, totaling more than two million square feet of space. Jeff serves as a managing principal for two large-scale multi-generation, mixed-use, mixed-income, live/work community developments in Connecticut, which he designed (Heritage River Village and Collins Village) that have combined values of over $200 million with more than 680,000 of residential, hospitality, and commercial space.  For 12 years, Jeff served as President for JB Commercial, Inc., a design/build, real estate development, owner’s representation firm.