Xiaodan Mao-Clark has more than 15 years of investment banking experience including serving as a partner at Jade Hill Investments, a Houston-based commercial real estate private equity firm. Prior to joining Jade Hill, Xiao served as a senior associate for the commercial real estate firm Jackson Cooksey, a sales executive at Delta Technology – an international agricultural commodity firm – and a consultant at Jones Lang LaSalle, Gemelos Investments, and Nevada Gold and Casinos. Xiao was a Best Paper Award nominee at the 26th Annual Graduate Education & Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality & Tourism. She also serves as the president of the Conrad N. Hilton College Alumni Association, advisory board member of Pima Medical Institute, and vice president of the Conrad N. Hilton College Doctoral Student Association. In her spare time, Xiao is an avid scuba diver and enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter.