Shane Skubis
Co-Founder and Principal
Over the past 30 years, Shane has created a network that solved lots of development and transaction-related issues to produce over 300 franchised hotels working in 49 different states, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Canada. In between development gigs, Shane sold over 60 hotels in his hospitality career. This work required market analysis, development protocols, ownership, management, sale of land, sale of hotels, market research, pricing, and ROI and ROE analysis. Shane is an expert in the valuation and sales process. His responsibilities have included finance and debt restructuring, systems analysis, asset management, land planning, zoning and entitlements, commercial leasing, construction management, and development of amenities. Shane received his experience working with the leading brands in hospitality, franchising, and real estate. His experience includes the top brand structures of Coldwell Banker, (market analyst) Prudential, Wyndham, IHG, Radisson (development); and JLL, HREC, and MM (brokerage).
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"I love the deal-making marketplace; my favorite projects were creating the downtown San Diego Hotel Indigo with IHG, and selling $100M Midwest portfolio sale at JLL. The most fun that happened in my career was being involved in the initial design and brand development teams of Wingate, Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites, and Hotel Indigo. Always happy to talk about hotels and real estate."
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Shane lives in Seaford, Virginia with wife Gillie and their 3 dogs Pond, Lillie, and Matilda.
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Jeremie Babinet
Co-Founder and Principal
Jeremie Babinet is the co-founder and principal of OMBC. A seasoned hotel investment professional originally from Paris, Jeremie has contributed to the success of investors, developers, and operators in Europe, the United States and Latin America since 2003. Over his 20+ year hospitality career as a broker, appraiser, underwriter, and developer, Jeremie has been exposed to all aspects of hotel investment. He sold $1 billion worth of hotel assets and performed $3 billion of single-asset and hotel portfolio valuations across all hotel segments while providing buy-side advice to private equity investors such as Whitehall/ Goldman Sachs, Starwood Capital and Lone Star.
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Prior to founding OMBC, he was Director of Development at Great Wolf Resorts, a Blackstone portfolio company, after heading the Feasibility Department for the Americas region at Hyatt Hotels in Chicago, and as Vice President of Investment Sales for Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels & Hospitality Group in Los Angeles and Paris.
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"I strive in finding creative and successful ways of entering new markets and pushing new frontiers. I had a great time securing and entitling the land to build the first European flagship resort for Great Wolf in the UK, brokering the record land sale of the ocean avenue hotel site in Santa Monica at $1,500 / sf. Helping Hyatt expand in the US and Latin America and entering the All Inclusive space".
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Jeremie Babinet holds an MBA in Hospitality Management from IMHI - Cornell/ESSEC (2000) and a master’s degree from ASSAS-University (Paris) with a specialization in economics and financial management (1997). Jeremie is a Member of the Cornell Hotel Society. He is based in Chicago with his wife Tiphanie and has three children.
