Ashish Parikh

Ashish R. Parikh joined Hersha in 1999 and served as Chief Financial Officer for roughly 25 years, and now holds the title of Senior Advisor. As CFO of Hersha Hospitality Trust — a publicly traded hotel REIT (NYSE: HT) — he provided the financial and strategic oversight behind the management, financing, development, and acquisition of over $3 billion of hotel real estate. He was also named an Assistant Secretary of the trust. In August 2023, Hersha agreed to be taken private by KSL Capital Partners in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $1.4 billion ($10.00/share, ~60% premium); the transaction closed in late November 2023 and Hersha was delisted from the NYSE.

Before Hersha, Parikh was an Assistant Vice President in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Fleet Financial Group, where he built expertise across capital-raising activities including leveraged buyouts, bank syndications, and venture financing. Earlier in his career he worked at Tyco International, Ltd. and practiced as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with Ernst & Young LLP.

He earned an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University (NYU) and a BBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is active in real estate and civic circles, serving on the boards/advisory bodies of NYU Stern's Center for Real Estate Finance, NYU's Tisch Center, the Philadelphia Real Estate Council, The Committee of Seventy, the Real Estate Capital Policy Advisory Committee of the Real Estate Roundtable, and M&T Bank's Directors Advisory Council.

• His verifiable track record is as a corporate/real-estate finance executive, not a documented startup angel: sourcing, structuring, and financing hotel acquisitions and development for a public REIT.
• Deal focus during his CFO tenure: institutional-scale hotel real estate in gateway U.S. markets (New York, Washington DC, Boston, Philadelphia, South Florida, California), funded via public equity, debt syndication, and capital-markets transactions.
• Skill set spans leveraged buyouts, bank syndications, and venture financing (from his Fleet Financial M&A background) plus public-company financial reporting and capital allocation.
• Note on the "Angel Investor / Seed Round" label in the source stub: this appears to originate from investor-data aggregators (e.g., raizer.app, ynos.in, tracxn, dealroom), several of which conflate multiple people named "Ashish Parikh." No specific seed-stage startup investments could be attributed to the Hersha CFO with confidence, so that classification is treated as unverified here rather than stated as fact.