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Joseph Tagliente

IFE Mentor

Joseph Tagliente

Joe is the CEO and a partner at Lenrock and oversees our single-tenant, NNN investments, and food-service/hospitality opportunities. Prior to co-founding Lenrock, Joe was the president and CEO of the Tage Corporation, one of New England’s leading hospitality companies. Under Mr. Tagliente’s leadership, Tage grew from a small fast food restaurant operator founded by Joe’s father (Joseph P. Tagliente) into a multi-faceted hospitality development and management corporation with operations in fast food, full service restaurants, hotels, and hospitality construction and development.

In 1989, Mr. Tagliente conceived, designed and developed the first of his company’s hotels; The Tage Inn in Milford, Massachusetts co-founding this venture with Joe Sr. The Tage Inn was an immediate success and grew to a portfolio of 4 properties throughout New England with over 500 rooms. 

In 2000, Mr. Tagliente launched a calculated strategy for maximizing immediate cash returns, optimizing capital gains, and structuring long-term rental income for Tage shareholders, by divesting the Tage operating companies and consolidating all of the company's real estate assets into a series of connected limited liability corporations which now form the private real estate investment trust; Tage Capital Partners (TCP). Joe currently serves as the managing partner of TCP. 

Joe is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and serves on the board of advisors for the Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship there.  He is also an adjunct professor of franchising at Boston University’s School of Hospitality Management. Joe sits on the board of directors of Kitchen Brains, a global supplier of kitchen control equipment and systems and is an advisor to MAIDBOT; a startup that is building robots to clean hotel rooms and NY Restaurant Concepts, Inc operators of the Fat Sal's Deli chain.  

Mr. Tagliente is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, holds an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Babson College, and is a member of YPO (Young Presidents Organization).