Wally Hobson
Advisory Board Member

Wally Hobson is founder and president of Hobson Real Estate Advisors, a Pacific Northwest real estate consulting and development advisory firm. He has over 30 years of experience in all facets of real estate development from project management, market research and analysis, programming, sales and marketing, financial analysis, strategic planning, master planning to training.

For three years, he was the managing partner for the Pacific Northwest offices of Robert Charles Lesser & Co., a national real estate advisory and consulting firm headquartered in Los Angeles, and managed offices in Portland and Seattle. He also held positions in marketing, market research, and sales in private industry.

For the last ten years, he has specialized in the resort industry, domestically and internationally. As the leading international expert on fractional residence clubs, he has worked on more than 100 projects throughout the world advising many of the major participants in the branded private residence club arena including Four Seasons, Rosewood, Auberge, Relais & Chateaux, Club Regent, and St. Regis.

A graduate of the University of Oregon, he also holds an M.B.A. from Portland State University