Jeff Higley is President of BHN Group and oversees 10 hotel investment conferences worldwide, including the Americas Lodging Investment Summit. He is a 35-year media and events veteran who has specialized in the hotel industry for the past 25 years.

Career stops include Gannett, Advanstar Communications, Questex Media and STR, where he launched Hotel News Now in September 2008 and the Hotel Data Conference in 2009. Higley began his career as a sportswriter in the newspaper industry.

He is a product of Valparaiso University in Indiana and a native of Sandusky, Ohio.