Our Board Members

Johnny Sandelson
Founder and CEO

Johnny Sandelson is an entrepreneurial property developer with over 15 years experience in commercial and residential schemes. He founded GuestInvest in 2003, heralding the birth of the buy-to-let hotel room concept. Johnny is committed to the establishment of the hotel room as a new asset... Read more

Anita Purvis
Group Sales & Marketing Director

Anita joined Guestinvest after a highly successful career at Barclays where she was Head of Business Solutions and a Director of Property Finance. A leading strategist, Anita was responsible for large ticket commercial and hotel structured deals. She also led a large sales team whose expert knowledge covered treasury... Read more

Sir Mark Weinberg
Non-Executive Director

Sir Mark has a long and distinguished career in the investment and insurance fields. He is the President and co-founder of the St. James's Place Wealth Management Group which has over £17 billion of funds under management... Read more

Justin Jones
Chief Operating Officer

Prior to joining GuestInvest in 2006, Justin's initial career was in structured finance, before joining multinational water services group Biwater Plc as it expanded its investment operations in Central America, Asia and Africa. During eight subsequent years in South Africa he gained an MBA, founded an investment... Read more

Geraldine McKenna
Non-Executive Director

Geraldine joined GuestInvest to support its national and global expansion, bringing a wealth of experience in the international business travel and hospitality industry. Geraldine was CEO of the Maybourne Hotel Group which owns and manages three of the worlds most renowned hotels The Berkeley, Claridges and... Read more

John Wilson
Non-Executive Director

After six years with Unilever, John Wilson spent 25 years with the Ladbroke Group plc in a number of senior roles. He was Operations Director of Ladbroke Taverns and Restaurants and Deputy Managing Director of Ladbroke Hotels in the UK... Read more

Simon Ainley, ACA
Financial Director

With a strong commercial, international and professional accounting background, Simon brings a wealth of experience with him to GuestInvest. Previously Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director of Steljes Limited, a distributor of electronic presentation products, he was instrumental in increasing... Read more