A specialist platform for exceptional
hospitality assets
Akoya Hospitality is a senior-led, multidisciplinary firm. With team members based in Europe and the Americas, Akoya works internationally and is able to engage quickly across borders, markets and ownership structures. Akoya draws from a tailored team for each engagement, structured around the specific needs of the property and ownership.
Luxury hotel operations form the foundation of the Akoya team. Its professionals developed their expertise from within operating and functional teams—not solely from an oversight or advisory position—and have served as department leaders and discipline experts across sales and marketing, revenue management, food and beverage, wellness, residences, and feasibility and program optimization. Their experience has been built within leading hotel brands, ownership groups, and hospitality strategy and analytics firms.
From Analysis to Action
This depth of operating and specialist experience allows Akoya to move beyond diagnosis. The team identifies what is constraining performance, determines the actions that will have the greatest impact and works directly with ownership and hotel teams to implement them.
Akoya works selectively with owners of exceptional hospitality assets where senior attention, deep specialization and hands-on execution are required.
Founder and Managing Principal
Portfolio Leadership
Jackie Brown is the founder and managing principal of Akoya Hospitality. Prior to founding Akoya in 2016, Jackie served as the lead asset manager for CTF Americas and Europe, a real estate holding company investing on behalf of an ultra-high-net-worth international family who owns the Rosewood brand and focused on iconic luxury and ultra-luxury hotels.
In that role, Jackie oversaw a portfolio of ten landmark assets, including Rosewood Little Dix Bay in the British Virgin Islands; The Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel in New York City; The Beverly Wilshire, a Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles; Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas; Ko'a Kea, an independent resort in Hawaii; Castiglion del Bosco, a Rosewood Hotel in Tuscany and Rosewood London among others.
Career Background
Jackie also led underwriting and opening efforts for hotels in London, Paris, Sao Paulo and the Napa Valley, including work across branded, independent, resort, mixed-use and residential hospitality assets. While with CTF, she bridged the gap of owner/operator, working in tandem with Rosewood. Through Akoya, Ms. Brown also served as President of Capella brought on to position the brand for sale.
Before CTF, Jackie spent time in hotel real estate investment banking with Citigroup while completing her MBA at Georgetown University with a focus on hotel real estate. She began her career in commercial real estate advisory with JLL. Jackie graduated from Northwestern University and is based between New York City, Aspen and East Hampton.
Leadership Proof Points
- A career-long record of improving GOP performance and long-term asset value.
- Experience working with many of the leading luxury and ultra-luxury hospitality brands globally.
- International portfolio experience across the United States, Caribbean and Europe.
- Deep expertise across hotels, resorts, residences, membership clubs, openings, repositionings and long-term optimization. Direct experience structuring and administering HOA programs and residential governance and a proven ability to influence complex stakeholder environments, including operational structures, labor-related matters and owner/operator alignment.