WHO WE ARE

OUR TEAM.  We have assembled a team of passionate and experienced professionals in the hospitality and dining industries.  Each member brings a unique characteristics to help create immersive culinary and cultural experiences every day.  However, our team has one unified vision; to enrich the lives of guests, staff and the community through immersive culinary and cultural experiences to elevate one's happiness, health and spirit.

THE STEWARDS OF THE GOETCHIUS HOUSE

Renata Martoni is a Brazilian made by Italians. She was born and raised in a small rural  town located in the southern countryside of Brazil.  Renata is multi-lingual, and had aspirations to pursue her passion in design.  She outgrew her rural hometown and lived in major cities such as São Paulo, San Francisco and Miami, and is recognized as an international top Interior Designer. Renata aspires to do more than making beautiful houses, she wanted to make beautiful homes for people to enjoy with their loved ones.  Now, her passion is being fulfilled with The Goetchius House at 405 Broadway.  Renata has a natural ease in sharing her heart in ways that bring a soul in the creation of beautiful places.  Her personality is intoxicating, her natural happiness is contagious, and her husband says that her smile lights up a room (it still lights up his heart and puts a twinkle in his eyes).

Matthew Lapides is a consummate entrepreneur from historic Annapolis, Maryland. His life experiences have allowed him to live in a variety of cities both in the U.S. and China.  After graduating from Lehigh University in 1991, he joined a family business.  Within a year, he quickly knew that he needed to forge his own future and create his own life path, and that's what he did.  Matthew is a creator, and spent the past 30 years building businesses that engage him in activities that challenge his personal and professional growth.  He is the founder of a registered investment adviser firm named Ethos Wealth Management, a state licensed construction firm named Casa Tua Construction Group and Sprout Publishing.  He also served in executed roles with Merrill Lynch and a private bank from more than a dozen years, successfully sold a bicycle manufacturing and distribution business in the 1990's and spent years in mainland China creating Sino-American joint ventures in various industries.

Together, we're better!  While Renata provides the “What”, Matthew provides the “How”. Together, they are on a mission with a vision, purpose and dreams.  They are more than a couple who met by happenstance, they are business partners, best friends and hopeless romantics. Renata and Matthew have come together with a common vision in helping to create a better life and environment for the community, for the ones they love and for themselves.  With two boys, now 14 and 25, and two girls (the four legged fuzzy type), there never seems to be a dull moment in life... just how they like things!