Fernando "Nando" Trevino
Vice President of Real Estate/Development
Nando joined Gibson Hotel Management, Inc. in 2019 after a successful twenty-five-year career in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage, most recently focusing primarily in Hotel and Restaurant site acquisition. Prior to real estate Nando had a career in the hospitality industry and gained a valuable management experiences within the hotel, restaurant and banquet/catering fields, and worked for Michael Gibson in 1985-1987.
Nando has worked with hotel development clients who developed Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt and La Quinta hotels. In addition, he was Project Manager on construction of multiple units for a national fast-food franchisee.
He worked as the Assistant Food & Beverage Director at the Holiday Inn- Starkville (MS), Holiday Inn World’s Fair Park in Downtown Knoxville, Garden Plaza- Murfreesboro (TN) and Food and Beverage Director at the Torchbearer award-winning Holiday Inn- Hattiesburg (MS).
Nando is a Louisville, KY native and attended both the University of Kentucky and Mississippi State University, where he studied architecture and landscape architecture, before embarking on his hospitality management career. He currently holds a real estate license in KY and UT, and is pending in TN.