Board of Directors: Secretary

Pinal Patel of Goodlettsville, TN, serves as the Secretary of AAHOA, the world's largest hotel owners association. He has served as an AAHOA Ambassador and as AAHOA’s Director at Large Eastern Division.

Pinal was born in Bardoli, India, and moved to the United States at the age of two. His family emigrated from India to Nashville, TN, in 1984. Pinal says his parents did not speak any English when they brought him and his 1-year-old brother to America.

His parents bought their first independent hotel in 1991, and he is a second-generation hotelier. But he wasn’t always planning on following in their footsteps. He graduated from flight school at Embry Riddle in Daytona Beach, FL, but soon after, he bought his first franchise property.