Convene Hospitality Group’s Ryan Simonetti Is Redefining Where the World Meets

He grew up in the back of a bread truck. He built the largest gathering company in America. He’s just getting started.

The lesson Ryan Simonetti carries from his father has nothing to do with real estate or hospitality or the $230 million his company just secured from Ares Management and TPG Credit Solutions. It is simpler and older than any of that. His father ran a bread delivery route in central New Jersey — Martin’s Famous Potato Rolls, the predawn shift, every morn…