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SENIOR TEAM

MATTHEW NUSS

President

Matthew leads the company’s overall operations, sales & marketing, business, and development strategies.
Under his direction, the company generated record-setting revenues, re-tooled and streamlined key
executive functions and its organization chart as well as re-programmed all Hotel ZaZas. As a result, the
brand has enjoyed unprecedented growth in RevPAR, food and beverage performance, earnings, online
reputation as well as guest and associate satisfaction.

Prior to ZaZa Hospitality, LLC, Matthew was a founding Principal and Executive Vice President of Valencia
Group where he was integral to the market-leading positioning of Hotel Valencia Riverwalk in San Antonio
and Hotel Valencia Santana Row in Silicon Valley. Before Valencia, he enjoyed a successful 10 year career with
Omni Hotels where he was named General Manager of the Year and earned the reputation as a turnaround
expert for the company in such flagship hotels as the Omni Berkshire Place in Midtown Manhattan, the
Omni Parker House in Boston, the Omni CNN Center in Atlanta and the Omni Tucson National Resort &
Spa. Matthew has a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Kansas and attended graduate
business school at the University of Nebraska.

VINCENT MENNELLA ZACH SCHATZ
Chief Financial Officer Senior Financial Analyst

As Chief Financial Officer, Vince leads the Zach brings with him a wealth of experience
finance team of ZaZa Hospitality, LLC to from both public accounting and private
include accounting, systems and controls, enterprise. He currently works as a Senior
banking and cash management, internal and Financial Analyst for Snowmass Creek Capital
external audit processes, risk management where he helps oversee a diverse portfolio of
and information technology. Vincent was investments while developing new investment
most recently Vice President Finance with opportunities. Zach works with the ZaZa
Benchmark Hospitality International, Division Hospitality team to underwrite development
Vice President Finance with Sage Hospitality deals and source financing on behalf of S.C.C.
Resources and Vice President-Regional Prior to joining Snowmass, Zach worked as a
Controller at Destination Hotels & Resorts. In Senior Auditor for Ernst & Young. In addition
addition, he was Vice President of Hospitality to a CPA license, Zach holds a bachelor’s
degree in Business Administration as well as
Accounting with Wyndham International.
SENIOR TEAM Economics and Business Management from Christian University.
degree
a master’s degree in Accounting from Texas
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Vincent
bachelor’s
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Northeastern Illinois University and a masters
of Business Administration from Illinois
Institute of Technology.

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