Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> June 6, 2012

Supertel Hospitality, Inc. (SPPR)

Walters, Kelly A.
Kelly A. Walters joined Supertel Hospitality, Inc., as President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2009. Before joining Supertel, he served as the Senior Vice President of Capital Markets and New Business Development for IRET. Mr. Walters spent 10 years as Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Magnum Resources, Inc., and from 1993 through 199 he was a Senior Portfolio Manager with Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in Chicago. Before 1993, Mr. Walters spent five years as Investment Manager at Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc., in Omaha, Neb. He earned his undergraduate degree in finance at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and received his EMBA, also from the University of Nebraska. Profile
TWST: Please start with a history and overview of Supertel, including the company's portfolio today.

Mr. Walters: The origins of Supertel date back to the mid-to-late 1970s in Norfolk,