David has over 24 years of experience in the hospitality sector and also acts as an only independent Hotel Expert from CEE at International Dispute Resolution Centre in London. Before founding his independent hospitality advisory real estate company – DOSFIELD, for over 10 years David led the hospitality department of a global real estate advisory firm, Cushman & Wakefield in Central & Eastern Europe as well as Southern & Eastern Europe. He personally led hotel investment, valuation, development advisory, and operator selection processes across the region while also supporting projects throughout EMEA. He managed a team of 15 specialists across Prague, Warsaw, and Budapest and was directly involved in executing 30 hotel operating agreements. He also successfully transacted (sell-side or buy-side) hotel assets in total value of more than 1 billion EUR and during his leadership, Cushman & Wakefield became a market leader in Central and Eastern Europe of all global advisory firms active in the respective region. Prior that David acted as Conducting Officer and Member of the Board of General Partner of special investment fund Keystone Hospitality Fund S.C.A., SICAV FIS (Eurozone open-ended real estate quota Fund) where he was managing setting up procedures of the Fund under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. He coordinated all legal and organizational arrangements with AIFM, Portfolio Manager – Asset Manager and Depositary/Custodian Bank including determination of the Placement activity of the Fund via its partners during the first closure of the Fund. He was responsible for general organization of the board and maintaining the relationships with the main shareholders of the Fund as well supervising and reviewing the portfolio management and due diligence processes on all investment activities. Right before that David worked for 7 years in a leadership and managerial positions (cluster General Manager as well as Development Director) at an international private equity investment company focusing on hotel developments and operations in Europe with almost 600 rooms in operation and close to one thousand rooms under the development. During his leadership David managed to establish master franchisee partnerships with multiple global hotel chains such as IHG, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Worldwide Corporation as well as Accor Hotels & Resorts. During his tenure as cluster General Manager, David ensure all departments achieve profit targets, maintain systematic cost control as detailed in budgets and business plans as well as managing 4 real estate development divisions covering West, East and Center Europe, Baltic States, Scandinavia and Middle East. He also coordinated activities when elaborating legal analysis, investment plans and preparing contractual business relationships. Part of his duty was also management of the tender procedures with general constructors of real estate projects and monitoring of building phase until successful realization and opening on behalf of investor and shareholders.