Jatin Desai

Managing Principal, Chief Financial Officer

Jatin is a founding partner and managing principal of Peachtree Group and leads the accounting, finance and fund management functions for the company. He has been actively involved in more than $8.5 billion in hotel acquisitions, investments, and development. He has over 17 years of real estate experience with a focus on hospitality assets.

Prior to his work with Peachtree, Jatin started his career as an investment banker with Wachovia Securities, where he focused on asset underwriting and private equity transactions ranging from $100 million to over $5 billion. He then worked at his family's hotel business before joining Peachtree Group as a managing principal.

Jatin holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he also attended The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and completed coursework at The London School of Economics and Political Science. He is an Advisory Board member for the Wood Center for Real Estate Studies at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Have you had your 15 minutes of fame yet? What was it?

Yes, I was selected to Hotel Management's Thirty Under 30 and was featured on the cover of AAHOA magazine.

If you could meet any historical figure, who would it be and why?

Socrates to see if he spoke how he wrote.

What's your secret talent?

I can ride a unicycle.