Executive Management

Luv Shah
CIO & Co-Owner
- Luv is the Chief Investment Officer of BH and has over 25 years of global real estate private equity investing experience, across asset classes including office, hospitality, retail, and residential properties.
- Luv has extensive experience in restructuring and executing complex distressed, corporate, portfolio, and property-level real estate private equity transactions in the UK / Europe, as well as the US, Latin America, and Asia, having closed and/or managed transactions totaling over $5 billion of gross asset value.
- Further, he established BH’s UK and European partnership in 2018 – Best Star Real Estate (beststar-re.com).
- Recently, Luv was a Senior Partner of Invel Real Estate, a pan-European opportunistic real estate private equity platform which managed real estate assets with a gross asset value in excess of €3 billion and deployed in excess of €1 billion. Notable transactions include the €1 billion acquisition of the NBG Pangaea REIC (Greece’s largest REIC) and the distressed acquisition of a circa €100 million Aphrodite Hills integrated hotel, residential, and golf complex in Cyprus.
- Prior to Invel, Luv spent 2.5 years as a Principal of Ranieri Real Estate Partners in New York, focusing on the acquisition of distressed commercial loan portfolios and individual distressed assets, and the prior 11 years holding various global roles with Deutsche Bank / RREEF, largely focusing on opportunistic real estate private equity transactions. Notable European transactions include the circa €1 billion acquisition of La Rinascente (Italy’s leading department store company), and the circa €1.4 billion acquisition of Newreal S.p.A. (then the commercial real estate subsidiary of Enel, Italy’s largest power company).
- Luv received his B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.

Neil Shah
CEO & Co-Owner
- Neil is the CEO & Co-Owner of BH. and his resume combines a lifetime of hospitality experience with a broad operational and executive background to create a unique and successful management professional.
- Responsible for shifting BH from the “mom-and-pop,” hands-on approach that served his parents well, to the dynamic organization it is today, Neil integrated his corporate and startup experiences into hospitality management. As an example, this resulted in, during 2018, BH's Staybridge Suites in Newark, DE received IHG’s Quality Excellence Award, given to only 10 properties within the brand.
- Neil has developed hotels in Delaware and Texas, as well as a retail shopping center and various industrial projects, including a $100mn LPG rail facility (the largest on the Eastern Coast of the USA). He has served as the Director of Strategy at a large energy company, guiding complex investment decisions and vetting acquisition targets.
- As a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Neil focuses on the creating processes that allow team members at all levels of the organization to be successful and grow, creating a dynamic workforce to quickly capture opportunities that arise.

George Adamopoulos
Partner - UK/Europe, Best Star Real Estate

George Adamopoulos
Partner - UK/Europe, Best Star Real Estate
- George is a Founder and Managing Director of Best Star Real Estate and the Founder / Director of STAR Real Estate (“STAR RE”) and has over 20 years of experience in the UK property market.
- STAR RE is a sector agnostic development and asset management business specialising in the execution of Value-Add and Opportunistic Strategies. STAR RE can operate under a mandate or partnership structure from acquisition, through to delivery and exit. STAR RE has extensive experience in the acquisition and execution of complex development situations in London and nationwide.
- George started his career with Schal International Management and then proceeded with GVA Grimley where he trained as Chartered Surveyor.
- In 2008, he joined Camden Market Holdings as Development Director with remit to expand a substantial property portfolio in Zone 2 London, add value and deliver complex mixed-use developments and asset management initiatives. During his tenure the portfolio was valued £400m.
- In 2011, he joined Augur Investments – a new founded business backed by Europe’s largest privately held construction company Laing O’Rourke - as Development Director with aim to source and run all Development activity for the business. During that period, the business acquired, developed, managed and sold assets across most sectors, namely - residential, offices, industrial, retail and leisure.
- George is a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) and earned a MSc in Real Estate Investment, a MSc in Construction Management & Structural Design, and a BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering.

Manish Shah
Partner - NY, Two Kings Real Estate

Manish Shah
Partner - NY, Two Kings Real Estate
- Manish is a partner of BH in NY and co-founder of Two Kings Real Estate, an owner / operator of US real estate properties.
- He has served as principal and manager of numerous real estate assets including controlling equity, preferred equity mezzanine and senior debt investments acquired via private equity and corporate funds.
- He has successfully led in house and external teams to increase revenue for distressed real estate properties increasing rent rolls and RevPAR over 50% for multiple assets and asset types.
- His prior experience includes executing a turnaround of a publicly traded company with significant real estate assets, and managing over a billion dollars of equity and debt transactions at Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley.
- Manish graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, and graduated with honors and distinction in two majors from Yale University. He serves on the Board of Advisors for Yale’s Institute for Global Affairs.

Chris Wang
Partner - NY, Two Kings Real Estate

Chris Wang
Partner - NY, Two Kings Real Estate
- Wang is a partner of BH in NY and co-founder of Two Kings Real Estate, an owner / operator of US real estate properties.
- He has served as principal and manager of hotels, apartments, office and retail properties and has overseen every stage of the investment lifecycle for more than $500 million of assets.
- Wang has led the operation of more than 1,500 hotel rooms under major hotel brands and has managed more than 1,200 apartments, totaling of over $90M+ of total revenue, including rent regulated properties.
- He has been responsible for over $40M+ capital expenditures and renovations, including ground up development and governmental approvals.
- Christopher attended the Lawrenceville School and earned BBA and MBA degrees from Emory University's Goizueta Business School.

Vipin Nambiar
Partner - TX, HN Capital Partners

Vipin Nambiar
Partner - TX, HN Capital Partners
- Vipin is a Senior Advisor of BH and founder of HN Capital Partners, LLC, an opportunistic investment manager looking for unique risk-reward situations in multiple asset classes.
- Vipin (through HN Capital Partners) has developed, owns, and/or operates four luxury & lifestyle hotels including the Virgin Hotels Dallas (TX), the W Victory Dallas (TX), the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek (Dallas, TX), and the Hotel Per La (Los Angeles, CA)
- HN Capital uses its design-oriented approach to creative placemaking by applying its hospitality expertise as a tool to activate developments and neighbourhoods.
- HN Capital was originally formed in partnership with Hunt Consolidated Inc. to specialize in real estate development, hospitality assets, and distressed CRE.
- Vipin studied architecture at the University of Texas Austin and has an MBA in finance and applied economics from The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
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