Speakers
Meet the speakers behind the sessions. Industry experts sharing practical insights, strategies, and real-world experience throughout the conference.
Alexa Nota
With a background spanning marketing, journalism, and hands-on STR operations, Alexa Nota has spent her career helping communities and hosts navigate the evolving world of short-term rentals. As Co-Founder and COO of Rent Responsibly, she leads efforts in host education, advocacy, and association support across the country.
Alex Cope
Alex Cope works in the nontraditional STR space, including glamping and experiential stays. He brings a practical lens to operating unique assets while balancing guest experience, maintenance realities, and operational feasibility.
Beata Lorinc
Beata Lorinc is an experienced short-term rental investor known for building, rebuilding, and scaling resilient STR portfolios through changing market conditions. Her work blends disciplined decision-making with lived experience, offering practical insight into growth, risk, and reinvention.
Brian Lambert
Brian Lambert is an STR entrepreneur with experience across both traditional and alternative rental models. He facilitates thoughtful conversations around scalability, operational tradeoffs, and risk in nontraditional STR investments.
Chantell Hammond
Chantell Hammond helps short-term rental owners clarify their marketing strategy and brand positioning. Her work focuses on simplifying messaging so listings attract the right guests—not just more traffic.
Christin Prince
A North Carolina–based revenue manager and former marketing executive who oversees more than 175 short-term rental properties. She helps owners and small- to mid-size co-hosts strengthen revenue through strategic pricing and listing optimization.
Corey D'Agostino
Corey D’Agostino works in property management with a focus on cost control, systems, and operational execution. His insights help operators understand where margins are won—or quietly lost.
Elle Anderson
Elle Anderson operates experience-driven STR properties and brings insight into managing guest expectations, branding, and operations for nontraditional rental models.
Harshad Lalan
Brings an engineer's precision to hospitality and operates luxury short-term rentals across multiple markets while developing boutique hotel projects. He is known for turning operational chaos into systems that perform, repeat, and scale.
Ishita Lalan
Ishita Lalan is an interior designer specializing in short-term rentals. Her work focuses on creating spaces guests emotionally connect with—while still supporting durability, functionality, and ROI.
Jake Cohen
Jake Cohen specializes in revenue strategy for short-term rentals, helping operators move beyond surface-level metrics to make smarter pricing and positioning decisions. He is known for translating complex data into clear, actionable insight.
Jessica Fischer
Blends real-life transformation with practical, immediately actionable tools for short-term rental owners. She specializes in STR operations and co-hosting throughout the Carolinas, helping owners and managers protect their investments and increase revenue.
Jen Josey
Jen Josey is a podcaster and real estate investor, bringing her energy, investor insight, and community-first leadership to guide us through two powerful days of connection and learning. As a real estate investor, business owner, and founder of REIGN: Real Estate Investor Growth Network, Jen knows how to spark meaningful conversations that move this industry forward.
Joe Prillaman
Joe Prillaman is an experienced STR operator focused on operational efficiency and margin management. He brings a grounded, numbers-driven perspective to scaling sustainably.
Josh Lehew
Josh Lehew works with STR operators to improve performance through guest experience, amenity strategy, and operational clarity—helping identify the decisions that actually drive bookings and repeat stays.
Julia Hicks
Julia Hicks is a professional photographer specializing in short-term rentals. She helps hosts improve conversion by aligning listing photos with how guests actually browse and evaluate properties.
Justin Ford
Justin Ford is a recognized safety expert in the short-term rental industry, helping owners implement practical safety standards that protect guests, properties, and long-term viability.
Kate Stoermer
Kate Stoermer is a strategist, educator, and industry advocate in the short-term rental space. She helps owners and operators improve decision-making around income potential, tax strategy, and operational clarity.
Katie Johnson
Katie Johnson is an attorney focused on legal issues impacting short-term rental operators. She helps hosts understand liability exposure, compliance risks, and common legal pitfalls.
Kim Fitzpatrick
Kim Fitzpatrick is the founder of Launched Host and built her short-term rental business from the ground up. She helps owners launch Airbnb listings through professionally planned and executed setups that drive performance from day one.
Maria Reith
Maria Reith is a tax strategist specializing in short-term rentals, helping owners navigate depreciation, compliance, and cash-flow optimization with clarity and confidence.
Michael Chang
Michael Chang works at the intersection of AI, automation, and STR operations—helping hosts use AI tools practically to improve communication, workflows, and decision-making.
Mike Reilly
Mike Reilly is the co-founder of NC Stays, a North Carolina–based short-term rental property management company. He also serves as COO of Short Term Rental Secrets, a host mastermind supporting hundreds of operators managing thousands of properties worldwide.
Liz Lyons
Liz is a hospitality and marketing professional with a background in boutique hotel management, large-scale event coordination, and lifestyle magazine publishing. Her expertise lies in blending elevated guest experience with strategic, market-driven branding.
Nichole Dipippo
Nichole Dipippo helps hosts generate incremental revenue through local partnerships, upsells, and in-listing offers—while maintaining guest trust and brand alignment.
Paige Hayes
Paige Hayes is the founder of Hayes & Company Interiors, a virtual interior design firm focused on emotionally driven spaces. She helps short-term rental owners and designers create properties and businesses that stand out by designing spaces that truly connect with people.
Parker Borofsky
As a Mortgage Loan Officer licensed in multiple states, she has helped countless families and investors turn their property goals into reality—while building her own collection of Smoky Mountain homes. Grounded, adventurous, and quietly bold, she brings both expertise and heart to everything she does. As a main sponsor of this event, she’s passionate about helping others create not just investments, but a life they truly love.
Scott Asbell
Scott Asbell leads partnerships and acquisitions at Savvy, helping grow and strengthen its national short-term rental ecosystem. He focuses on aligning Savvy, clients, and partners into strategic matches that support long-term growth and shared success.
Stacey St. John
Stacey St. John is an author and speaker focused on leadership, clarity, and personal growth. Drawing from Stop Playing Small, Start Living BIG, she challenges business owners to step confidently into their next chapter.
Steph Weber
Steph Weber is a branding and marketing strategist, short-term rental investor, and host of the Branded & Booked Podcast. She helps boutique hospitality brands scale through strong positioning, memorable guest experiences, and strategic growth.
Tyler Coon
Tyler Coon is a short-term rental investor, broker, and educator who helps investors think beyond acquisition toward long-term portfolio strategy, market selection, and exit planning.
Will Brooks
Will Brooks operates nontraditional short-term rentals and brings hands-on experience navigating maintenance, staffing, scalability, and guest expectations outside traditional home-based STRs.
Will Brooks
Will Brooks operates nontraditional short-term rentals and brings hands-on experience navigating maintenance, staffing, scalability, and guest expectations outside traditional home-based STRs.
Will Brooks
Will Brooks operates nontraditional short-term rentals and brings hands-on experience navigating maintenance, staffing, scalability, and guest expectations outside traditional home-based STRs.