Pete Dannemiller is Executive Vice President of Hodges Ward Elliott, the leading hotel brokerage and investment-banking firm in the U.S., averaging over $4 billion in annual transaction volume in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Dannemiller has specialized in real estate analytics and investment since starting with The Prudential Realty Group in 1991. While with Prudential, Pete developed both a passion for and unique expertise in the valuation and investment sales execution of a variety of real estate asset classes, which has been fine-tuned within the hospitality sector over his 12 years with HWE. Pete was a speaker at the 2005 ALIS Conference in Los Angeles, the 2006 Atlanta Hotel Investment Conference, the 2007 Multi-Owner Golf Industry Conference and has been quoted in Hotel Business magazine as a hospitality brokerage expert. Pete holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from Emory University.