Dave Walia has more than twenty years of experience growing entrepreneurial companies. He joined Nath Companies in 1994 and assisted in growing the Burger King Division from 42 restaurants to 146 in four years.
In 1998 he led the diversification of the company into hotel ownership and management. His role with Nath Companies has been to identify under-performing assets, acquire them and build successful management teams to turn around the operations. He has coordinated the acquisition and divestiture of assets, including commercial real estate, hospitality and restaurant concepts. In 2008 he led the acquisition of Axel’s and Bonfire casual dining restaurants. In 2016, he identified and acquired two new hotels with two more in 2018.
Before joining Nath, he was an Engineering & Construction consultant for both Brown & Root and M.W. Kellogg for clients such as Proctor & Gamble, Phillip Morris, AECI and NASA. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1990 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and has an MBA in New Venture Management from the University of St. Thomas in 2000.
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