Michael Bellisario is Baird’s Senior Research Analyst covering Real Estate - Hotel REITs & Consumer/Retail – Global Hotel Brands. Prior to joining Baird in 2010, he was a research analyst at Crist / Kolder Associates, LLC and a trading assistant at SKTY Trading, LLC. Michael received a BS in Finance with Highest Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business with concentrations in Finance and Managerial and Organizational Behavior.