Piero Spada

Chief Operating Officer, Hospitality · Versus

With over 40 years of operational experience in Hospitality, Piero Spada is a veteran in all different aspects of food & beverage and entertainment. Dual Citizenship Italian from the Calabria region, Piero grew up in Pennsylvania and spent most of his summers in Europe. He spent a lot of time in New York, Philadelphia, Miami, and Las Vegas. He has a dual degree from Albright College in Psychology and Biology. Piero also is a Veteran of the United States Marine Corps and brings his military knowledge to Versus, especially when it comes to security policies and procedures.

Piero grew up working in his parent’s Italian restaurant at the age of ten and basically has worked every job imaginable in operations. He’s a bit of an adrenaline junkie especially when it comes to adventure. He enjoys skydiving, scuba diving, soccer, lacrosse, martial arts as well as motorcycles. After graduating from college, Piero found himself in the modeling and acting career working in NY, NJ and Philadelphia.

A renaissance man, Piero moved to DC in 2001 and has made it his home there among the who’s who of DC while entertaining celebrities, politicians and diplomats. Piero is comfortable and professional in all different social circles. He’s learned a lot from some of DC’s best from which he was mentored, especially when it comes to all aspects of night life, operations and hospitality.

Piero is passionate and energetic to say the least. He has in-depth knowledge of all avenues of operations, while constantly evolving, learning and open to new methods. His constant thirst for learning and pushing the throttle drives him to achieve any task at hand. He enjoys concept development and design, project execution as well as being even a construction manager on many projects. As a multi-use tool, Piero is of great use to Versus in multiple facets.