Christina Reti leads CDR with creative insight, global reach, and a sharp focus on real estate and hospitality.

Christina founded CDR after nearly a decade at Korn Ferry, where she advised global investors, developers, and hotel operators on some of the most significant senior leadership appointments in luxury hospitality and real estate. But the decision to build something of her own came from a deeper conviction – that this work could be done differently. More carefully. With greater attention to the whole person, not just the placement.

Her background is not a conventional one for this industry, and that is precisely what shapes her approach. A Master’s in Art Law, a postgraduate in the History and Connoisseurship of Fine and Decorative Arts, early years at Christie’s and the Goldsmiths’ Company – where she curated collections, launched international seminars, and oversaw the opening of new Assay Offices. What that world gave her was a particular way of looking. At people, at organisations, at the chemistry between a leader and a place.

Insight
Christina Reti

Increasingly, guests will be choosing their hotels based on their social and environmental impact – preferring organisations that have embedded meaningful practices into the fabric of how they operate.

Before Korn Ferry, Christina built the hospitality and lodging practice at a boutique real estate search firm, working across Private Equity, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Hedge Funds, Hotel Operators, and HNWIs across EMEA and Asia. Today her expertise spans investment, asset management, development, marketing, and operations – held together by a deep network, genuine market knowledge, and an approach that is always, above all, people-first.