Built to sit at the intersection.

Founded on Experience

Established in Dubai in 2026 by Anthony Aucar, Intersect Hospitality is a boutique hospitality and development advisory firm created to address the growing need for integrated strategic guidance across the hospitality and real estate sectors. After 15 years of advising hospitality and F&B businesses on concept development, business planning, operational excellence, franchising, and brand expansion, Anthony recognized the increasing convergence between hospitality and real estate. This perspective was further strengthened as he joined a multinational Real Estate and Investment Management Company, where he developed tenant mix, leasing, and commercial strategies for mixed-use developments, hotels, shopping malls, food halls, across the GCC and wider MENA region. Intersect Hospitality was established to bring these complementary disciplines together under a single advisory platform, enabling stakeholders to benefit from a holistic approach that connects hospitality strategy with commercial and development objectives.

Anthony Aucar

Anthony Aucar brings over fifteen years of experience across hospitality, F&B, retail and mixed-use advisory throughout the MENA region, spanning strategy, market studies, feasibility, tenant mix, leasing, franchising and operator search. His consulting career began at Hodema Consulting Services, where he delivered market studies, feasibility studies, operational audits, concept development and franchise advisory for hospitality and mixed-use developments across Lebanon and the GCC.

He then joined Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), leading tenant mix strategies, leasing strategies, tourism strategies, market assessments and commercial advisory for developers, landlords, government entities and mixed-use assets across the MENA region.

Anthony went on to join Kitopi as Senior Manager, Global Real Estate and Business Development for GCC coverage, leading franchise strategy and development planning for a multi-brand restaurant portfolio, securing new locations across 22 brands, and managing landlord relationships and lease operations across a $10M+ portfolio. He also assisted the C-suite in negotiating a franchise agreement, successfully securing a signed Head of Terms for the development of 5 of Kitopi's brands, with a projection of 100 units within 10 years across those brands.

In 2026, he founded Intersect Hospitality Advisory, an independent consultancy providing end-to-end advisory services for hospitality, retail and mixed-use developments — supporting clients from master planning and market strategy through operator sourcing, franchising, pre-opening and post-opening optimisation.