Andrea Foster

Andrea Foster joined Marcus Hotels & Resorts in 2015. She is responsible for marketing the company's hotel management expertise and identifying and securing acquisition, joint venture, and third-party management opportunities for the company. Foster's career began in hotel operations and management positions for branded and independent properties on the east and west coasts. She then joined PKF Consulting|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. She returned to PKF|CBRE from 2011 to 2015 as Managing Director of the New England Practice, based in Boston. Foster is a key voice at hotel investment conferences and regular guest speaker at Cornell, Purdue, and Boston University. She is on the Lodging Industry Investment Council, board committee chair of the Cornell Hotel Society and president emeritus of the New England Chapter, advisory board chair of AHLA's ForWard initiative, advisory board member of Castell@College, and co-founder of Boston Lodging Pulse. She was listed in "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.