Dean Schreiber
Founding Partner
Owner and Capital Advisory
Senior hospitality executive and advisor to owners, developers, and investors. Dean brings commercial judgment, investor fluency, operating leadership, and an asset-value perspective.
What Mantle is
Mantle is a partner-led hospitality practice.
We steward significant hospitality assets on behalf of their owners.
We come in early, while decisions have the power to shape the outcome.
We bring senior expertise across the disciplines that define the asset: strategy, concept, architecture, landscape, interiors, procurement, technical services, operational logic and commercial value.
We adapt to your needs, to your ambitions paired with your structure. The breadth of expertise across our founding partners means that whatever the project demands, we arrive with the understanding to meet it.
The aim is not to add more expertise in parallel.
It is to hold the whole asset in one coherent line.
What we do
We steward decisions that form the asset
Strategy
- Understand owner ambition
- Propose asset positioning
- Provide market and context analysis
- Commercial logic
- Capital and value perspective
Formation
- Hospitality concept
- Guest experience logic
- Architecture
- Master planning
- Landscape
- Interior architecture and design
- Food and beverage strategy
Development intelligence
- Procurement and sourcing
- Technical services
- Material, craft, and durability
- Buildability and delivery suitability
- Operational logic
- Opening readiness
Operations
- Pre opening strategy
- Operating model
- Service standards
- Team and culture
- Day to day stewardship
- Owner reporting
- White label management
Who we are
Olmo Fernandez
Founding Partner
Hospitality and Operations
Hospitality strategist and operator with experience across hotels, restaurants, and complex development. Olmo brings concept, technical services, pre-opening thinking, and operational intelligence.
Hannah R. La Rue
Founding Partner
Business Development Director
Business development leader with 14+ years across luxury hospitality and design. Hannah brings owner-level relationships, commercial negotiation experience and the ability to position a premium practice in front of clients who control appointment and capital.
Karl Princic
Founding Partner
Architecture, Master Planning, and Landscape
Architect and landscape designer with deep experience shaping resort environments where buildings, terrain, movement, and setting must work as one.
Mary Lou Thomson
Founding Partner
Interior Architecture and Design
Hospitality interior designer with international experience in refined resort and hotel environments. Mary Lou brings material, craft, atmosphere, and guest-experience discipline to the formation of place.
Leopoldo Gonzalez
Founding Partner
Procurement and Sourcing
Procurement and sourcing specialist grounded in resort development and owner-side delivery. Leo brings craft, cost sense, sourcing and production discipline to the asset.
Global perspective
Selected hospitality environments shaped by Mantle's Founding Partners.
Luxury hospitality cannot be repeated from one place to another. The point is not geographic reach.
It is the ability to read setting, culture, market, climate, construction reality, guest expectation, and operational requirements across different kinds of assets.
A remote island property, a mountain retreat, an urban restoration, and a private estate do not ask the same questions.
Mantle's work begins with reading those differences before a development language is imposed.
Selected Experience
Selected hospitality environments where Mantle's
Founding Partners have contributed in various capacities.
Where we matter most
We are not for every hospitality project.
It is for assets where the standard model is not enough: where place matters, the guest experience must be specific, and early decisions carry long term consequence.
Project Types
- Rare resorts
- Remote properties
- Private retreats
- Reference properties
- Adaptive hospitality assets
- Highly individual places of stay
- Experience-led stays
- Properties shaped by setting
Project Conditions
- Uncommon ambition
- Assets build to endure
- Projects with high cost of dilution
- Properties that could not exist elsewhere