5/13/2009

Benowitz named RockBridge managing director

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Mr. Benowitz

Jonathan Benowitz, formerly a senior vice president with Hilton Hotels, has joined RockBridge as managing director of its investment group.

Benowitz will have primary responsibility for directing RockBridge's investment activities and will support RockBridge's other business activities and the pursuit of new ventures.

Benowitz formerly served as senior vice president for project finance and investment analysis for Hilton, where his responsibilities included completing transactions involving acquisitions, dispositions, mortgage financing, joint venture equity financing and negotiating management agreements for hotel projects. He played an instrumental role in Hilton's acquisition of Hilton International in February 2006 and the sale of Hilton Hotels Corporation to Blackstone in October 2008.

He also spent seven years with Marriott Corporation where he was involved in a variety of financial and real estate matters.

Benowitz earned a master's degree of business administration from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a bachelor's degree from Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y.

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