Robert Alan Alter (born March 5, 1951, in New York, NY) is an American hotelier and real estate investor.
[2] Alter attended Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration in the early 1970s, with the intention of entering the restaurant business after graduating.
[3][4] Alter made the leap from employee to ownership in 1976 when he and a partner started Mountain Resorts Inc. with the purchase of a single 28-room hotel.
In 1999, Alter joined with New York-based Westbrook Partners LLC to execute a management-led leveraged buyout of Sunstone.
[6] In the year 2000 Alter founded Buy Efficient, LLC, an internet-based purchasing management platform with over 900 participating hotels and senior living properties throughout the United States and Canada.
Robert Alter is founder and current President of Seaview Investors LLC., a privately owned hotel investment company, established in 2006.