Dev Anand
Non-Executive Chairman
Dev has spent the past 50 years in the hotel industry – agency sector, providing hoteliers both in the UK and globally with high volumes of corporate and leisure business. In 1972 he co-founded Expotel, still today the market leader in corporate hotel and conference bookings (as part of Capita plc) with an annual hotel turnover of £250 million. Through these years Dev “grew up” with hotel GMs and Sales & Marketing executives, who today are CEOs of major groups, as well as the individual entrepreneurs running some of the best independent hotel companies.
In 2018, Dev started The Hotel Property Team as a niche, boutique hotel-broker, helping hoteliers and hotel investors buy/sell hotel properties and businesses. During the past five years, we established a unique reputation as having the expertise and insight of the major “Big 10” brokers, but with the “fleet of foot” attitude of a boutique broker….and unlike so many such brokers, a true understanding of the hotel industry, not least of all knowing the owners, on a personal basis, behind the major hotel brands and chains.
In 2023, Dev bought in three new equity partners, as below, rebranded the company as The Hotel Property Group, which brings in both new expertise as well a broader geographic spread with offices in the UK, Rest of Europe, Middle-East, Asia-Pacific….and associate partners in North America and the Caribbean.
Besides operating in the UK, Dev has built a network of high-level contacts and agents throughout the world, especially in Europe, USA, Middle East, India and Australasia.
Sassan Varasteh
Senior Partner
With 30 years in entrepreneurial experience in international business relations, from strategic partnerships to equity investments to business development and solution management, Sassan has successfully led small to medium size companies to their exits. In the last few years, his focus has been the hospitality industry, assisting renown chains in their deal flow, select family offices in their acquisition strategy and hotel owners in the sales activities.
Graham J Gower
Senior Partner
A qualified Chartered Surveyor with some 40 years of post qualification experience , providing commercial and residential investment, development and funding advice to Investors and property owners across the range of high net worth investors through to private and public property companies and institutional investors. He has worked in all property sectors , including logistics, retail and student accommodation together with hotel evaluation and subsequent acquisition or disposal in key locations throughout the world . His early experience was gained in the property investment division of Knight Frank in London , moving to a fund managerial role with Schroders in London and latterly in Amsterdam as a Director of Schroders International Property Fund NV.
Matthew Trim
Senior Partner
With over 20 years of experience within the industry, Matthew Trim is well established as a leading international hotel brokerage and advisory professional. Specializing in Hotels and development sites, Matthew is a trusted advisor to CEOs and investors around the world. His deep passion for the hotel industry and extensive experience in mixed use and hotel development is backed by a proven track record of sourcing high-quality real estate investment opportunities for his clients.
An MBA in Finance and a qualified property developer, Matthew provides the strategic financial insight and vision to help clients identify and exploit commercial property opportunities in prestigious projects around the world.
Dimitri Krivo
Associate Partner
Dimitri, with nearly 20 years of experience and a proven track record in the CRE and hospitality brokerage and advisory industry, works closely with a number of leading institutional and private investors, including family offices, investment firms, financial institutions, hospitality companies and HNWIs.
Franck Robert
Associate Partner
Franck started in hotel and Restaurant management in France and the UK and worked this way up into sales and eventually in international hospitality Real Estate.
Franck has been involved in Real Estate in the Caribbean for many years, particularly in the Riviera Maya in Mexico and other well-known islands such as the British Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic. He has a wealth of experience in Resort Real Estate, Land Sourcing, Hospitality Development, and Residential Construction, and his clients describe him as tenacious, diligent, honest, professional, and a master negotiator. Franck and his network are vast locally and internationally, and he is very familiar with the luxury lifestyle throughout the Caribbean. He enjoys working on acquiring the best profitable deals for buyers and sellers within hospitality real estate, highlighting advantageous investment opportunities for Boutique hotel groups and Branded Hotel Chains. Franck moved back to the Caribbean early in 2010, and after seeing the potential of real estate there, he decided to do it full-time and continue to build his networks, knowledge, and success in projects such as the Hilton in Belize as well as covering other areas like Anguilla, Antigua, Saint Barths, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Antigua, Turks and Caicos, etc... He excels at connecting the right people to the right projects and making them a reality.