Jeff Klein (hotelier)

Jeffrey Michael Klein (born April 24, 1970) is an American hotelier, restaurateur, and founder of the JK Hotel Group.

He completed his education at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School before pursuing higher studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

He spent five years working with the Gotham Hospitality Group and its founder, Bernard Goldberg, and CEO, Stephen Brighenti, who later became mentors to Klein.

[3] In 1998 Goldberg sold the Gotham Hospitality Group and embarked on a project with Klein to convert a midtown office building into the City Club Hotel.

[6] He recruited Dimitri Dimitrov[7] as the Tower Bar maître d’ following an introduction from mutual friend Tom Ford.