Keith founded LHC and leads its globalinvestment, asset and fund management platform. LHC is a private equity firmbased in London, focused on real estate and corporate investments acrosshospitality and operational real estate sectors.
Keith has transacted on >$5.75B of hospitalityreal estate and M&A across the globe, during his career in private equity, institutionaland corporate M&A.
In 2024, LHC acquired Dean Group, avertically integrated lifestyle hospitality platform based in Dublin. Theinvestment expanded to 11 freehold lifestyle hotels across Europe and US in itsfirst year. Dean Group owns and controls its own proprietary hotel, F&B andwellness brand architecture, technology, and management infrastructure.
Prior to founding LHC, Keith was Chief Investment & Development Officer at Ennismore. He led the company’s investment,real estate, and development activities, where he was also instrumental incompleting the transformational global merger of Ennismore and Accor’slifestyle hospitality management platforms in 2021.
Prior to joining Ennismore, Keith was SVPof European Hotel Acquisitions at Starwood Capital Group (SCG) in London. AtSCG, he led the hotel investment team across several successful transactions,including equity, debt, strategic JVs and NPLs.
During his 20 years of industry experience,prior senior investment and asset management roles include Invesco Real Estatein Europe and Kingdom Hotel Investments in EMEA & Asia Pacific. He started hiscareer at Four Seasons in the US and received his MBA from IESE Business Schoolin Barcelona, Spain.