{"id":2120,"date":"2021-09-21T23:09:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T03:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/nolan\/2021\/09\/21\/speaker-nala-holmes-12-vice-president-acquisitions-pyramid-hotel-group\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:37:33","slug":"speaker-nala-holmes-12-vice-president-acquisitions-pyramid-hotel-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/nolan\/2021\/09\/21\/speaker-nala-holmes-12-vice-president-acquisitions-pyramid-hotel-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker: Nala Holmes \u201912, Vice President, Acquisitions &#8211; Pyramid Hotel Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Company: Pyramid Hotel Group\n<br>Time: 2021-11-12 13:25:00 &#8211; 2021-11-12 14:20:00\n<br>Where: Statler Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nala Holmes serves as Vice President of Acquisitions at Pyramid Hotel Group, a leading hotel management company based in Boston. In her role, Nala is responsible for the company\u2019s strategic growth efforts, sourcing and executing on acquisitions, new developments, and third-party management engagements across the United States and Caribbean. Nala joined the company in 2014 and previously oversaw the feasibility and financial analysis team before assuming her current role. Prior to joining Pyramid, Nala was on the Investment Originations\/Acquisitions team for Rockbridge, a private equity fund dedicated to hospitality investments and one of the largest hotel owners in the United States. Nala holds a BS in Hotel Administration and Real Estate from Cornell University, is a member of the Castell Project for Women in Hospitality, serves as President for both the Cornell Hotel Society New England and Cornell Real Estate Council Boston, and is bilingual in English and Mandarin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading acquisition strategy and growth initiatives for an emerging hotel company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ddls","tag-speakers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Speaker: Nala Holmes \u201912, Vice President, Acquisitions - Pyramid Hotel Group - Nolan School of Hotel Administration<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Speaker: Nala Holmes \u201912, Vice President, Acquisitions - Pyramid Hotel Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leading acquisition strategy and growth initiatives for an emerging hotel company.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/nolan\/2021\/09\/21\/speaker-nala-holmes-12-vice-president-acquisitions-pyramid-hotel-group\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nolan School of Hotel Administration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-22T03:09:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-07T22:37:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/Headshot-Nala-Holmes.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"migrated\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"migrated\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/business.cornell.edu\\\/nolan\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/21\\\/speaker-nala-holmes-12-vice-president-acquisitions-pyramid-hotel-group\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/business.cornell.edu\\\/nolan\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/21\\\/speaker-nala-holmes-12-vice-president-acquisitions-pyramid-hotel-group\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"migrated\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/business.cornell.edu\\\/nolan\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0ba1cd4d0b2dda2771c452ed59736e6b\"},\"headline\":\"Speaker: Nala Holmes \u201912, Vice President, Acquisitions &#8211; 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