To date our company has brokered over 820 hotels and motels coast-to-coast, with a total sales volume of over $2.5 billion, both franchise and independent, limited and full service, up to 400 units in size. BRC has represented major corporations, lending institutions, national franchises, management companies, government agencies, and individual owner/operators in the sale of their assets.

To date our firm has more per broker sales than all of the other hotel brokerage firms. Therefore, by choosing Brash Realty Company to represent you in the sale of your asset, you can rest assure that our firm will provide the "hands on" marketing of your property that other brokerage firms do not offer.

Scott D. Brash - President

Scott D. Brash has thirty years experience in sales, brokerage, operations and ownership in the hospitality industry. He has been involved in over 450 hotel and motel transactions. He has authored articles or been quoted in numerous publications, which include Hotel Motel Management Magazine, Crain’s Chicago Business, Hotel Business, Real Estate Forum, Milwaukee Business Journal, Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post, and Holiday Inn Worldwide Franchise newsletter.

He has served on the HBI Board of Directors for 8 years and also the board of directors for a Chicago area lending institutions for 7 years. Mr. Brash is continuously asked for his opinion on the state of the hotel industry by leading authorities and magazines. He has been asked to serve on panels offering their insights on the future of the hospitality industry.

He was awarded the prestigious “Salesman of the Year Award” in 1981, “Top Broker for the North Central Region” in 2007, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 2003. February 27, 2008 - Hotel Brokers International (HBI), the world’s leading hotel sales organization, at its recent annual meeting presented one of its top sales achievement awards to Northbrook-based hotel broker Brash Realty Company, Inc. for posting a company record in dollar sales volume during 2007.

Throughout the years Mr. Brash has owned and operated twelve hotels and motels regionally. Mr. Brash is recognized as one of the leading authorities in the hotel industry. Mr. Brash is a graduate of the University of Illinois.

Lili Gewargis - Vice President

Lili Gewargis started to work at Brash Realty Co. in 1994. Since receiving her real estate salesperson license in 2000, she has concentrated on meeting with buyers and sellers in the brokerage of motels and hotels.

Hotel Brokers International (HBI), the world’s leading hotel sales organization, at its recent and past annual meeting has presented Ms. Gewargis with the following industry awards:

• Lili Gewargis – Record Number of Transactions and Record Dollar Volume 2007, 2006, 2004 and 2003 Nationally.
  
  
• Lili Gewargis – Top Salesperson North Central Region 2007, 2005 and 2004.
  
  
• Lili Gewargis - Top Regional Salesperson Award - North Central Region 2005.

In 2006, Ms. Gewargis served as an associate director on the Board of Directors for the Hotel Brokers International which is governed by an eleven-member Board of Directors. In 2006 and 2007 she served on the Hotel Brokers International Annual Meeting Planning Committee.

Ms. Gewargis is a graduate of Northeastern Illinois University.

 

Victor Naik

Victor Naik has been in the hotel industry since 2000. He has managed various franchaised properties in the Chicago-area. For the group of investors that he worked for, he has been instrumental in developing strategies to acquire, improve & dispose off hotel assets.

Mr. Naik was born in India, raised in Africa, & is an accounting graduate. Previously he managed a sportswear manufacturing factory in South Africa for 10 years.