Andrea Foster
Senior Vice President of Development at Marcus Hotels & Resorts
A little bit about Andrea…
Andrea Foster, Senior Vice President, Development for Marcus Hotels & Resorts, is responsible for marketing the company’s hotel management expertise and identifying and securing acquisition, joint venture, and third-party management opportunities.
Foster’s career began in hotel operations and management positions for branded and independent full-service properties on the east and west coasts. She then joined PKF Consulting (now CBRE Hotels) in 2002 in Los Angeles where she was a Vice President responsible for hospitality real estate valuations and feasibility analyses. From 2006 to 2011, she was VP Marketing & Business Development for Miraval Resorts. She returned to PKF Consulting/CBRE Hotels from 2011 to 2015 as Managing Director of the New England Consulting & Valuation Practice, based in Boston, before joining Marcus in late 2015.
Foster is a key voice at hotel investment conferences and regular speaker at Cornell, Boston University, and Purdue’s hospitality schools. She is a member of the Lodging Industry Investment Council, president emeritus of the Cornell Hotel Society New England Chapter and current Cornell Hotel Society global board committee chair, co-founder of Boston Lodging Pulse and of Boston University’s Leadership Summit, 2020-21 Chair of AHLA’s ForWard: Women Advancing Hospitality, and an Advisory Committee member for Castell Project’s Castell@College.
She was named one of “30 Influential Women in Hospitality” in 2017 by Hotel Management Magazine, and as one of hospitality’s most successful women in Lodging Magazine in 2016. She is also a member of TEMPO Milwaukee, is on the Campaign Cabinet of the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County, and was the 2018 Chair of The Marcus Corporation’s United Way campaign. Additionally, she recently joined the advisory board of EVPassport, a fast-growing company in electric vehicle charging.
Foster is an engaged mentor of and advocate for hospitality leadership peers, rising leaders, and students of our industry. She is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration.
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