Senior leadership guiding AnalysisLAB’s work across the experiential economy.
AnalysisLAB operates as a senior-led advisory practice guided by a council of strategic insiders whose experience spans restaurants, nightlife, hotels, F&B, gaming, and financial infrastructure. Each member brings direct command over a domain where capital deployment, operational performance, and development economics intersect.
Client engagements are led directly by members of the LAB Council and supported by specialized analytical resources assembled for each mandate.
AnalysisLAB accepts a limited number of mandates each year to ensure direct Council engagement and the highest level of strategic oversight.
AnalysisLAB accepts a limited number of mandates each year to ensure direct Council engagement and the highest level of strategic oversight.
The LAB Council guides the firm’s advisory work, analytical frameworks, and research initiatives supporting capital deployment and operational performance across the experiential economy.
Coverage across the experiential economy.
Founder of AnalysisLAB. Restaurant and nightlife economics, capital structuring, and financial command systems.
Hotel development, asset strategy, and large-format F&B operations for hotel, mixed-use, venue, and institutional projects.
Gaming analytics, casino economics, and advanced modeling for large-scale gaming and resort operations.
Enterprise financial infrastructure, outsourcing strategy, and scalable finance operating models.
B Brian Martin is the founder of AnalysisLAB and leads the firm’s work in restaurant and nightlife economics, capital structuring, and financial command systems for restaurants, nightlife, hotels, and F&B.
His experience spans development underwriting, operating analytics, capital formation, and financial architecture for restaurant groups, nightlife venues, and experiential operators. Through AnalysisLAB, he focuses on translating complex financial and operational data into disciplined decision frameworks that guide capital deployment and performance management.
Dr. Afshin Kateb contributes expertise in hotel development, asset strategy, and large-format F&B operations.
His background spans hotel finance, asset management, and investment structuring for hotel and mixed-use projects. Within AnalysisLAB he extends that lens into large-format F&B — venues, stadiums, and institutional food service operations where the capital structure and performance economics share more with real estate than with restaurant operations.
Varun Nayak brings extensive experience in gaming analytics, casino economics, and advanced modeling for large-scale gaming and resort operations.
His work focuses on applying quantitative analytics and modeling frameworks to optimize gaming performance, revenue strategy, and operational decision-making within resort and casino environments.
David Schnitt contributes expertise in enterprise financial infrastructure, outsourcing strategy, and scalable finance operating models.
His experience centers on designing financial architectures and governance systems that support operational scale, financial reporting integrity, and efficient accounting operations.
Founder of AnalysisLAB. Restaurant and nightlife economics, capital structuring, and financial command systems.
Hotel development, asset strategy, and large-format F&B operations for hotel, mixed-use, venue, and institutional projects.
Gaming analytics, casino economics, and advanced modeling for large-scale gaming and resort operations.
Enterprise financial infrastructure, outsourcing strategy, and scalable finance operating models.
Contributing expertise to AnalysisLAB research and client mandates.
AnalysisLAB maintains a network of independent collaborators and subject-matter specialists who contribute to research initiatives and select advisory engagements across areas such as data science, hotel and F&B operations, development economics, and capital markets.
AnalysisLAB operates as a concentrated advisory practice where senior leadership, institutional research, and advanced analytics combine to guide capital decisions and operational performance across restaurants, nightlife, hotels, and F&B.
Every AnalysisLAB engagement is led directly by a member of the LAB Council. Not assigned to a team. Not delegated down.
