Speaker profile

Ramsey Mankarious
Cedar Capital Partners

Ramsey Mankarious is Chief Executive of Cedar Capital Partners, a specialist hotel investment firm. Cedar has acquired hotels with a value in excess of $4 billion including the Savoy Hotel London, Four Seasons Geneva and the Mandarin Oriental Prague. Cedar has offices in London, New York and Los Angeles.

Prior to founding Cedar, Mr. Mankarious was Executive VP of Acquisitions and Development for Kingdom Holding, a major investor in the tourism industry with sizeable holdings in both hotel real estate and management companies (Four Seasons, Fairmont and Mövenpick).

Mr. Mankarious was previously Associate Director at HVS International in their London and NY offices where he performed hotel valuations and feasibility studies in over 30 countries.

Mr. Mankarious received his MA in Property Valuation and Law from City University in London and his BA in Hotel and Restaurant Management from Michigan State University in the U.S.