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served as Special Counsel to the Town of Huntington, and as Senator Alfonse D'Amato's appointee on the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, as well as a senior staff member of Governor George Pataki's 1994 election campaign. Mr. Tsunis has also served as Legislative Attorney for the New York City Council. In 1999, Mr. Tsunis served as Finance Coordinator for Suffolk County Executive Robert Gaffney's reelection campaign, and is a television political commentator, and has appeared on Fox-5's Good Day New York.
Mr. Tsunis has a B.A. degree from N.Y.U. and a J.D. from St. John’s University in NY.
 Robert McCarthy
Managing Director
Chief Operating Officer.
rob@chartwellhotels.com
Mr. McCarthy has nearly 30 years experience in the hotel and hospitality industry. Prior to joining Chartwell, Mr. McCarthy was Senior Vice President of Operations for Linchris Hotel Corporation, 24-unit hotel chain and management company operating the following flags Holiday Inns, Sheraton Four Points, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn, and Radisson. Mr. McCarthy had full operational responsibility for the performance of these hotels as well as oversight responsibilities for renovations and capital projects. During his tenure at Lincris, Mr. McCarthy was responsible for the following:
- Cut employee turnover from 106% in 1999 to 48% in 2001.
- Implemented National Purchasing programs
- reduced breakfast costs from $3.50 per occupied room to $2.50 per occupied room.
- Introduced Avendra purchasing programs
- consolidated non–food purchasing.
- Opened, including all hiring, pre-sell, and purchasing for the $21M, 164-room, Hilton Garden Inn (Islip, NY)
- Achieved #1 in Revpar in the competitive Long Island market.
- Recipient of several “excellence” awards—3 Holiday Inn Quality Excellence performers, Radisson’s prestigious President’s Award 3 years in a row, and 1 Holiday Inn Community Excellence Award.
- Played key role in leadership development
- mentored three GM’s in earning CHA designation and Developed several internal staff members
- Led to promotion of four GM’s from within.
- Led multiple re-branding initiatives
- reflagged a Sheraton to a Radisson, a Best Western to a Holiday Inn, as well as an independent to a Holiday Inn.
Prior for joining Lincris in 1999, Mr. McCarthy was employed by Promos Hotel Corporation (a national company with over 1,200 hotel properties) where he served as the opening General Manager for the University Park Hotel at MIT. Mr. McCarthy also served as the opening General Manager and Project Manager for Sonesta International Hotels Luxor in Cairo, Egypt, a 224 room, five star hotel with six diverse dining concepts.
Prior to joining Sonesta in 1998 Mr. McCarthy served as the General Manager for the Holiday Inn, Mansfield, MA (202 rooms) on behalf of Fine Hotels Corp. where he oversaw a complete renovation of the hotel, sold 12,000 room nights to major corporations; grew catering revenues by 18%; increased ADR by 9% and took hotel from a rank of 1300 to 420 among Holiday Inns.
Prior to serving as a General Manger for Fine Hotels, Mr. McCarty has also served as a General Manager for the Flatley Company where he served as General Manager for the Sheraton Tara (Braintree, MA), a 376 room flagship hotel where he reduced operating costs by 35% and for the Sheraton Tara (Nashua, NH) a 330 room hotel where he added 8,000 room nights per year and increased sales by 10%.
Before joining Flatley in 1990, Mr. McCarthy served as a General Manager for Inn America Corporation’s Clarion Somerset Hotel, Nashua, HN, Acting General Manager for the Sheraton, Harrisburg West, PA and Rooms Division Manager and Food and Beverage Manager of Sheraton Sturbridge, MA from 1986-1990. From 1984-1986, Mr. McCarthy was the food and beverage manager for MIT’s Faculty Club and from 1978 to 1984 Mr. McCarthy was a restaurant manager for Marriott Specialty Restaurants.
Mr. McCarthy hold a B.S. degree in Hotel & Restaurant Management from the University of Massachusetts where he currently serves the Chairman of the Advisory Board for the University’s Hospitality and Tourism Program and as guest lecturer.
 Louis P. Lagios
Managing Director
Chief Investment Officer
Louis@chartwellhotels.com
Mr. Lagios joined Chartwell in 2007. Mr. Lagios is also a partner at Fidelity-AMG Realty Partners, LLC, a NJ based real estate investment firm where he is responsible for all acquisitions and arranging debt and equity financing with institutional joint ventures. While at Fidelity in 2005, Mr. Lagios was responsible for the largest retail acquisition in the state of NJ in partnership with an off shore institution. Prior to joining Fidelity, Mr. Lagios was a Principal of GC Capital Partners, LLC, a boutique real estate investment advisory firm representing foreign investors acquiring real estate in the United States and Europe. Prior to GC Capital, Mr. Lagios was a Director of Sentinel Real Estate Investment Corp. from 2000-2001 where he structured several joint venture funds with GCC based investors. Prior to joining Sentinel, Mr. Lagios served as Vice President of Investments at ARC Properties, Inc. and its affiliates Tibor Pivko+Company, ARC International Fund and ARC Corporate Realty Trust, Inc. from 1996-2000 where he was responsible for all real estate acquisitions, asset management and financial/investor reporting for the Company’s real estate funds. Prior to joining ARC Properties, Inc., Mr. Lagios was a real estate and tax attorney with the Roseland, NJ law firm of Brach, Eichler (now WolfBlock Brach Eichler) from 1993-1996. Mr. Lagios is also a licensed real estate broker and has nearly 18 years of experience in real estate.
Mr. Lagios graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics with honors and holds a Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University and a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree in Taxation from New York University. Mr. Lagios is a member of NAREIT, ICSC, Hellenic American Bankers Association and Arab Bankers Association of North America.
POBox 586
Florham Park, NJ 07932
Phone 973-968-4900
Fax 973-453-8165
Ms. Locey is responsible for the day to day operations of the Holiday Inn, Williamsport, Pa, the Hampton Inn, Vestal, NY, and the Quality Inn, Massena, NY and has served as the General Manager of the of the Holiday Inn Williamsport since 1999. In that capacity, Ms. Locey oversaw the conversion of the hotel from an award winning Radisson Hotel to the current Holiday Inn. At the Radisson Williampsort, Ms. Locey and her team earned the distinguished President’s Award for three consecutive years. The President’s Award is given to the top 15% Radisson in the country. The conversion from a Radisson to a Holiday Inn required a meaningful PIP in which Ms. Locey handled all the purchasing and oversaw the installation of the required items. Ms. Locey is currently overseeing the PIP for the Hampton Inn Vestal.
Prior to serving as General Manager, Ms. Locey served the hotel in various capacities since 1987 including banquet manager, director of sales, guest service agentr and restaurant server. Prior to working at this hotel Ms. Locey was a real estate broker in Pennsylvania. Ms. Locey earned her CHA designation in 2003.
Mr. Pelletier is responsible for overseeing the rooms merchandising effort as well as sales for all Chartwell Hotels. Prior to joining Chartwell in 2005, Mr. Pelletier was the corporate sales manager for the award winning Crowne Plaza, Nashua, NH. At the Crowne Plaza, Pelletier also served as banquet and catering manager. Prior to joining the Crowne Plaza, Pelletier was a general manager of a retail store and supervisor of food services for St. Joseph’s Hospital in Nashua, NH. Mr. Pelletier established the “Chartwell Sales Platform” which creates the individual goals for each salesperson in the organization as well as standard operating procedures for an effective sales effort.
Mr. Pelletier is a 1998 graduate of the University of New Hampshire.
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