The ROI Team
ROI Hospitality, LLC as a company began operations in January 2005. With a team of nearly 30 years of experience in all aspects of hospitality management, we are able to provide a broad spectrum of services to hotel owners. We have experience with full service and limited service hotels, as well as franchised restaurants.
John Warwick, Managing Partner
John possesses an extensive background in hospitality management, and has worked with multiple hotel franchises over the past 20 years. His hotel career began in 1986, and during that time has held management positions as Director of Catering, Director of Sales, General Manager, and Director of Hospitality. As Director of Hospitality, John managed a portfolio of eight hotels and three restaurants in five states. John's hands on experience with both full service and limited service hotels provides him with the experience necessary to effectively direct property management. Good, consistent communication between the Management Company and property management is imperative, and that is why John spends a significant amount of time working with property managers on customer service, revenue management, expense control, and property upkeep and maintenance. All this combined results in happy customers who will return to the hotel again and again. John's well rounded experience in hospitality management provides hotel owner's and property management with the unique mix of operational and sales expertise they deserve.
John graduated from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion in 1989, with a BS in Business Management. He has franchise experience with Hampton Inn, Radisson, Marriott, Holiday Inn, Ramada, Wingate, Days Inn, Microtel, and non franchised hotels; he also has experience with TGI Friday's restaurants.
Brad Van Kalsbeek, MBA, CPA, Partner
Brad has several years of experience in the areas of accounting and financial management. He has dealt with accounting issues from the standpoint of publicly traded and privately held companies as well as from non-profit and governmental entities. Brad has industry experience in real estate development, hospitality management, financial institutions, construction and asset management. Brad also has extensive experience in budgeting at the corporate and subsidiary levels. As an executive at a senior level, Brad has been involved with strategic planning, crisis management and long range planning. He has proven his abilities to direct divisions, departments, teams and projects while developing and implementing policies and procedures. Brad is adept at cash management, financial operations and change management.Brad graduated from Northwestern College in 1992 with a BA in Accounting and Financial Management. Brad has his masters in Business Administration from Colorado Technical University. Brad also is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).