Jared Melnik

Jared Melnik is a hospitality- and leisure-focused private-markets investor who is currently a Managing Director on the Real Estate team at Bain Capital, which he joined in 2023. His two-decade career has centered almost entirely on lodging, resorts, and travel/leisure investing across both equity and debt.

Melnik spent roughly 15 years at KSL Capital Partners, a travel-and-leisure-focused investment manager headquartered in Denver, where he rose to Principal and a member of the firm's Investment Committee. In that role he oversaw equity and debt investments in both hotels and leisure operating companies — leading strategy implementation, sourcing opportunities, and partnering with portfolio-company management to drive operational improvement. It was during this tenure that the email and phone contact details in the source data originate. He was publicly quoted as a KSL Principal on the firm's 2019 acquisition of a stake in Orange Lake Resorts.

In March 2021, Melnik left KSL to join Starwood Capital Group as Managing Director and Head of Hotel Acquisitions for the Americas, based in Starwood's New York office. There he led the sourcing, structuring, underwriting, and execution of hospitality and leisure investments across the region. In 2023 he moved to Bain Capital Real Estate as a Managing Director.

Melnik began his career as an investment banker in the Gaming and Leisure Group at Merrill Lynch. He graduated *magna cum laude* from the NYU Stern School of Business with a BS in Finance and International Business and is a CFA charterholder.

• Invests institutionally in travel, leisure, and hospitality — hotels, resorts, vacation ownership, and lodging-related operating companies and real estate.
• Deploys across the capital structure: both equity and debt investments (as at KSL), and control-oriented hotel acquisitions (as head of Americas hotel acquisitions at Starwood).
• Looks for high-quality operating platforms in the lodging sector with growth potential and operational-improvement upside — reflected in his own statement that Orange Lake Resorts "is one of the top vacation ownership companies in the U.S. and fits perfectly into our investment portfolio."
• Emphasizes deep sector specialization and partnering with management teams to execute value-creation plans, rather than diversified generalist investing.
• Not a fit for pre-seed/seed startup founders — this is institutional hospitality PE/real estate capital, despite the "angel investor / seed" tags in the source stub.