Biography
Daniel Peek is the President of the JLL Hotels & Hospitality team. He joined JLL in 2024 and has over 25 years of experience in Hotel Capital Markets. Peek reports to Americas Capital Markets CEO, Mark Gibson, partnering with Kevin Davis, Americas CEO for JLL Hotels & Hospitality Group. Together, Davis and Peek will lead the business and focus on driving client relationship management, investment sales, financing, tax and asset management strategies. Over his career, Peek has completed nearly $100 billion in hotel and resort transactions worldwide.
Prior to joining JLL, Peek served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Hodges Ward Elliott, where he led a global team responsible for executing institutional-grade commercial real estate transactions. Before that, he served as Senior Managing Director and Head of the Hospitality Practice Group at HFF, where he established the firm’s dedicated hotel platform. Additionally, Dan Co-founded Regent Street, an affiliate of The Plasencia Group (TPG), a boutique firm specializing in the sale, financing and advisory services for distinctive hotels and resorts throughout the Americas.
Dan graduated with a B.S. from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and its Hotel Development Council, the AHLA Investment Roundtable, the Board of Trustees of the AHLA Foundation and the advisory board of the Cornell Real Estate and Finance Center. Moreover, Peek is a recipient of the esteemed Jack A. Shaffer Financial Advisor of the Year award, which recognizes a dealmaker with exceptional skills in fostering and establishing relationships with the objective of successfully closing transactions that result in mutual benefits for both parties.