Stephanie O’Rourk, CPA, is a partner at CohnReznick who leads the Emerging Concept efforts of the Firm’s Hospitality Industry Practice. Based in the Atlanta office, she has more than 20 years of public accounting experience in both audit and tax, advising her clients on best practices and tax efficient strategies. Her clients consider her a trusted business advisor and value her experienced insights and business acumen.

Having worked with several of the nation’s leading growth concepts, Stephanie oversees the Firm’s nationwide initiative on emerging concept companies. She has helped implement best practices and industry standard reporting and financial controls for numerous hospitality companies. She leverages her knowledge of the various technologies available to the industry to help clients achieve their goals.

Her experiences have helped her develop an in-depth understanding of the tax code and the challenges and opportunities that exist in the hospitality industry. Working closely with other leaders in the Hospitality Industry Practice, she has assisted clients in restructuring their businesses in an efficient manner in order to best maximize tax benefits, implement incentive compensation programs, obtain financing, and negotiate lending terms, as well as position their companies for liquidity events.

Stephanie has helped developed our profit enhancement programs and cash flow management systems, which allow companies to run efficiently and to maximize their profitability. Used properly, these programs provide operators with a road map for their financial success and forecast their cash needs as their companies continue to grow.

In 2011, Stephanie was selected as one of the Top 50 Women in Business and was featured among Long Island’s Who’s Who of Women in Professional Services by Long Island Business News.

Education: B.S., Accounting - State University of New York Binghamton.

A founding partner of Fifth Group Restaurants, Robby Kukler oversees restaurant concept initiatives,

marketing and overall operations of the company. Under his leadership, the company proudly received the

Georgia Restaurant Association’s Crystal of Excellence Award (GRACE) for Restaurateur of the Year in

2007.

A hospitality professional for over 25 years, Kukler is a member and active supporter of both professional

and philanthropic Atlanta organizations. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta

Community Food Bank and once sat on the Georgia Restaurant Association’s Board of Directors. Kukler

was also active in the former Atlanta Restaurant Marketing Association and is a graduate of the Midtown

Alliance Leadership program. Additional committee and sponsorship commitments include: the High

Museum of Art Wine Auction, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta “Taste of the Highlands” fundraiser and

numerous Atlanta Community Food Bank initiatives.

With a degree in Food Systems, Economics and Management from Michigan State University, he gained

additional hospitality training at the École Hôtelière de Lausanne – the first official institution of the Swiss

Hotel Association. An invited presenter at the Restaurant Business Magazine’s “Trendsetters” Conference,

Kukler has spoken in numerous industry and educational forums about marketing, management and

careers in hospitality.

Federico Castellucci III is the President and CEO of Castellucci Hospitality Group. Federico has

been working in the restaurant business his entire life, holding his first job as an eleven year old

in a bakery in Rhode Island. Soon after as a teenager he began working in the family business

holding various roles in the kitchen including cook and kitchen manager before heading to

college.

Federico studied Hospitality Management at Cornell University and while away he partnered

with his father and consulted on new restaurant openings for his family back home in Atlanta.

Upon graduation he assumed the reigns of the family business and since 2007 changed the

direction of the company from a single unit mom-and pop-operation to a multi-unit, multi-concept

restaurant group.

As President and CEO, Federico is responsible for high-level operations and leadership

development and training. In addition, he makes all of the company’s growth decisions - where

and how to expand, as well as concept research and origination. Federico is focused on building

and implementing systems across the restaurant group that streamline operations and improve

communication. While working on the business takes most of his daytime focus, Federico

spends time in the restaurants during the evening hours building customer relationships and

developing employee talent.

In addition to his roles within the company, Federico serves on the Board of Directors of the

Georgia Restaurant Association and is actively involved as a mentor, advisor and investor in

early stage hospitality technology companies. In his free time he enjoys regular yoga practice,

discovering new independent musicians and having daddy-daughter dates with his baby girl,

Olivia.