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Global Update: Who's where and doing
what:
August 2006
AMERICAS
Wolf Hengst, who is currently President, Worldwide Hotel
Operations, for Four Seasons,
has announced his intention to retire
at year-end. With his retirement, Four Seasons has appointed Kathleen
Taylor as President and Chief Operating
Officer. Jim FitzGibbon will become
President, Worldwide Hotel Operations, effective January 1, 2007.
Starwood has promoted Rip Gellein, to President, Global Development. Gellein has served as
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Starwood Vacation Ownership
since 1999 and was formerly Chairman
and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Vistana, a company acquired by Starwood in 1999. He joined
Vistana in 1980.
Ted Darnall, President of Starwood Real Estate
Group has stepped down in order to
develop a fund specifically focused on building aloft and Extended Stay by Westin hotels, two brands he helped create. Darnall joined
Starwood in 1996 and has been the
President of the Starwood Real Estate Group since 2002.
Starwood has named Matt Ouimet President of the Hotel Group, a newly created position.
Ouimet spent seventeen years at the Walt Disney Company, most recently serving as President of the
Disneyland Resort. Ed
Grier, a 25-year Disney veteran who
most recently oversaw the company's operations of Tokyo Disney
Resort, replaces
Ouimet.
Hotelier Philippe
LeBoeuf is back in the United States
after eleven years in France. He is now based in Dallas as
Rosewood's Vice President of
Operations. LeBoeuf, a Board Director for Leading Hotels of the
World, served until 2005 as Executive
Vice President of Louvre Hotels, the
Barry Sternlicht-controlled entity
that includes Paris' tony Hotel de Crillon. LeBoeuf
was at the helm of the Crillon for six years. From 1989 to 1991, he was an Executive Assistant Manager
at New York's Carlyle, now a
Rosewood hotel.
Radisson has appointed Ed Garin Vice President of Development, Latin America. A Cornell
graduate, he had served as Director of Development for Lexington
Services and Vantis International
since 1997. Prior to that, he was
Director of Rooms and Reservations for the Continental
Companies.
Destination Hotels &
Resorts has hired David
Bland as Managing Director of New
Projects, a newly created role. He was most recently with
Intrawest at its Winter
Park development as Director of
Sales.
Edward Haus has joined Yellowstone Club World in Beverly Hills as Chief Financial Officer, under
former Conrad
International Chief Executive
Officer Dieter Huckestein.
Haus was with Hilton for fifteen years, most recently as Corporate Director
of Financial Services and Reporting. He was the Vice President of Finance for
Conrad International during its growth from one to twenty luxury hotels
worldwide.
Ray Jacobi has been appointed General Manager of the Island
Hotel in Newport Beach replacing
Hansjoerg Maissen. A resident of
Newport Beach, Jacobi was until recently the Chief Executive Officer at the
Telluride Ski and Golf Resort. He
previously served with Rosewood as
the company's Chief Operating Officer. This is a return to the property for
Jacobi who had been its General Manager in the mid nineties when it was still
the Four Seasons Newport Beach.
David Feder has been appointed President and General Manager of the
Fontainebleau Resort in Miami Beach
succeeding Michael Starr, who will
assume the position of General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of the
upcoming Fontainebleau Resort Las Vegas. Previously, Feder was the President of the PGA
National Resort & Club. He also
served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Boca
Resorts, and as Senior Vice President
and Managing Director of the Arizona Biltmore.
Sanjeev Rai has been appointed General Manager of the
Rockefeller Center Hotel in New
York. He was previously the Director of Food and Beverage at the
Fairmont New
Orleans following nine years at the
Drake in Chicago in the same
position.
William
Taylor has been named General Manager
of the Four Seasons Boston replacing
Peter O'Colmain who is leaving the
company in order to relocate back to Southern California. Taylor was previously
the General Manager at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago and the Four Seasons Atlanta.
Victor
Woo has been named General Manager of
the Rancho Las Palmas Resort, the
former Marriott Rancho Las Palmas,
bought by Strategic Capital and
given under management to KSL Resorts. Woo was most recently the Director of Sales and
Marketing at KSL's Hotel Del Coronado and Claremont.
Joseph
Kirtley has been promoted by the
Morgans Hotel Group as General
Manager of New York's Royalton, from
the position of Hotel Manager at Mondrian. He originally joined the company more than eleven
years ago as Front Office Manager at Miami's Delano.
Mathew
Pargament has been transferred by the
Morgans Hotel Group from the
position of General Manager at Miami's Shore Club to the same post at Mondrian in Los Angeles, where the post had been vacant since
the departure of Bill Doak, almost a
year ago.
Peter Serena has been named General Manager of the Vero Beach
Hotel & Club. Most recently Serena served as General Manager at the
Eagle Creek Golf and Country Club in
Naples and was previously the General Manager at the Wigwam in Arizona.
The Lodge at Tiburon
has appointed Stephanie
Bauer as General Manager. She was most
recently the Vice President and General Manager of the Lafayette
Park and was previously the General
Manager of the Sofitel San Francisco
in Redwood City.
Eric Sather will be joining Blackstone's LXR Luxury Resorts as the General Manager of the Peaks in Telluride. He has been the General Manager of Robert Redford's Sundance Resort for the past two years, following a nine-year tenure with Dolce International.
Roy Young has been named Managing Director of the Naples Bay
Resort. He was promoted by
Benchmark Hospitality from the
position of Project Director at the French Lick Resort Casino and West Baden Springs Resort. Young also served as Managing Director for the
Georgian Terrace Hotel in
Atlanta.
Sam
Guedouar has been appointed General
Manager of the Providence Westin. He
was most recently the General Manager at the InterContinental in Kansas City and previously served in a similar
capacity at the Lake Lawn Resort in
Wisconsin, the Hotel ZAZA in Dallas
and the US Grant in San
Diego.
Philippe
Sabo has been named General Manager of
Jalousie Plantation in St. Lucia. A
Lausanne graduate, he had spent several years with Orient Express
in such diverse locations as the
Bora Bora Lagoon Resort,
Charleston Place, the Maroma
Resort and Spa, and the Sanctuary
Lodge Machu Picchu.
Sileshi
Mengiste has been named General Manager
of the newly rebranded Le Méridien
(formerly the Park Hyatt) in San
Francisco. He was most recently overseeing the former Pan
Pacific San
Francisco (now the
JW Marriott). He also held the position of Executive Director of
Hotel Operations at Wynn Las Vegas.
Steve
Shern has been named General Manager at
the Hotel 71 in Chicago soon to be
re-branded to Solis Hotel and Spa.
He spent the past fourteen years with Four Seasons, in Dallas, Las Vegas, Chicago and Atlanta.
Jean Loubat will be running his newly purchased
Pine Creek Lodge in
Nacogdoches, Texas. He was most recently the Hotel Manager at the Parker
Méridien Palm Springs.
Kurt Berman has been named Resident Manager of
Rosewood's Jumby
Bay in Antigua. He was most recently at
Frégate Island Private in the Seychelles as Resident Manager, having joined the property in 2004
as Executive Chef. Berman was previously at Point Grace in the Turks and Caicos.
Andrea Gates has been named Hotel Manager of the
Carlyle. She was most recently at
Rosewood sister property, the
Mansion on Turtle Creek as Director
of Rooms.
Cornell graduate James
Kostecky has transferred to the Four
Seasons Great Exuma as Resort Manager,
switching positions with Annabel Shaw who will move to his former position at the Four
Seasons London as Hotel Manager.
Kostecky started with the company in 2002 as Resort Manager at the Four
Seasons Hualalai in
Hawaii.
Pascal
Forotti has transferred as Hotel
Manager to the Hotel InterContinental Chicago. He was most recently at the InterContinental
Buckhead where his successor as Hotel Manager is Andrew
Gajary, previously the Hotel Manager at
the Cleveland InterContinental.
Simon
Antoine has transferred to the
InterContinental
Cleveland as Executive Assistant
Manager, from the position of Director of Food and Beverage at the
InterContinental Buckhead.
Bixente Pery, Executive Chef at the
InterContinental Buckhead has been
promoted to Director of Food and Beverage/Executive Chef.
The soon-to-open Hilton Fort
Lauderdale Beach Resort has appointed
Miguel Rodriguez Executive Assistant
Manager. He was most recently the General Manager of the Water Club Boutique
Hotel in Puerto
Rico.
The Hilton Fort Lauderdale
has named Clay
Stewart Director of Finance. He was
most recently the Operations Controller at the Lake Las Vegas
Resort and was previously overseeing
finance at the Hilton Miami Airport
and the Doubletree Oceanfront Hotel
in Fort Lauderdale.
Brenda
Sorley has been named Financial
Controller at the French Lick Resort Casino in Indiana. She was most recently the Finance and
Business Control Manager for Tetra Pak, a global packaging company based in Lund,
Sweden.
Vail Resorts has appointed Robert Urwiler Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. He
was most recently the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for
Macromedia.
Carlos
Salazar has joined the
Carlyle as Director of Food and
Beverage. He was most recently in
the same position at the Kahala Mandarin Oriental (since then renamed the Kahala
Resort) where his successor is
Charles Lennox.
Gilles
Flores has joined Sun Swept
Resorts in St. Lucia as Corporate
Director of Food and Beverage. For the past four years, he was in various food
and beverage management positions with Orient Express at El Encanto, La Samanna
and the Bora Bora Lagoon Resort.
Greg
Poplewko has been named Project Vice
President of Food and Beverage for the French Lick Resort
Casino in Indiana. He was most recently
employed by Harrah's Entertainment
as Division Director of Food and Beverage for Bally's and Paris Las Vegas and previously for five years was part of Caesar's
Entertainment.
The JW Marriott Desert Ridge
Resort & Spa has appointed Vipin
Khullar as Director of Food and
Beverage. He joined Marriott in 1988
and served the company in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, most recently
as the Director of Food and Beverage for the Philadelphia Downtown
Marriott.
At the Hilton Fort
Lauderdale, Stéphane
Lafon has been appointed Director of
Food and Beverage. He has previously worked at the Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel
and Towers, the
Waldorf=Astoria, Turnberry Isle
Resort and Club, Ritz-Carlton Palm
Beach, Windsor Court New
Orleans. He most recently, served as
Director of Food and Beverage at the now shuttered Swissôtel The
Drake.
Paul Cardona will be leaving his position of Director of Food and
Beverage at the Orrington to take a
similar post at the Park Hyatt Chicago. Prior to joining the Orrington a year ago, Cardona was
the Director of Food and Beverage at the Lodge at Vail. He also opened Bacara in Santa Barbara as Assistant Director of Food and
Beverage.
Daryl Billig has
been named Food and Beverage Director of the Whitetail Club & Resort
in Northern Idaho. A CIA graduate, he
was most recently based in Honolulu as the Executive Sous Chef with Pride of
Aloha, an American-based cruise ship
that services the Hawaiian Islands.
Cornell graduate Shai
Zelering has joined
Blackstone's LXR Luxury
Resort as Cluster Director of Food and
Beverage for their hotels in Fort Lauderdale including the Hyatt Regency Pier
66, Marriott
Harborside and Holiday
Inn.
Christine
Judd, who was until now the Director of
Marketing at the Four Seasons Sydney, has transferred, in a similar role, to the Four
Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara.
Prior to joining Four Seasons, Judd was the Director of Sales and Marketing at
the Peninsula Beverly Hills. In
Santa Barbara, she takes over from Ed Galsterer, who has left the company.
Stacy
Dreyfus has joined
Winvian in Connecticut as Director
of Sales and Marketing. She was most recently in the same position at the
Hotel Gansevoort and previously
Global Sales Manager at Ian Schrager Hotels Northeast Global Sales
Office.
The Rancho Las Palmas Resort
& Spa (formerly the Marriott Rancho
Las Palmas) has named Daniel Keyser
Director of Sales and Marketing. He most recently served as Director of
Sales and Marketing at the Emerald Pointe Resort on Georgia's Lake Lanier Island and the past year as
Director of Sales at La Quinta in
Palm Springs. Both properties are, like Rancho Las Palmas, operated by
KSL.
Neil
Hastings has joined the Mountain
Lodge at Telluride as Director of Sales
and Marketing. Hastings was previously with Starwood. Most recently he was overseeing Sales and Marketing at
Wyndham Peaks Resort & Golden Door Spa.
The newly opened Zermatt
Resort & Spa in Utah has hired
Michelle Palmer as Director of Sales
and Marketing. She was most recently the Associate Director of Sales at the
Lodges at Deer Valley and the Chateaux
at Silver Lake - Deer Valley Lodging. Palmer has
also served as the Associate Director of Sales at Sundance
Village.
Paul Pebley has been appointed Director of Marketing at the
Fontainebleau
Suites and Fontainebleau
Resort in Miami. He was previously
the Marketing Director at the Omni Orlando Resort at
ChampionsGate.
Jodi Doughty has been named Director of Sales and Marketing for
Houston's Hotel
Icon. She was most recently handling
both the JW Marriott and the
Ritz-Carlton in Jakarta as Director
of Sales and Marketing.
John
Egelhoff has joined the very luxe
Twin Farms in Vermont as Director of
Sales and Marketing. He was most recently in the same position at the Little
Nell in Aspen and previously handled
Sales and Marketing at Auberge du Soleil. David Kaso
moves into Egelhoff's position at the Little Nell from his position there as the
Director of Catering.
The Hotel Roanoke
has named Rick
Southard Director of Marketing and
Event Planning. He succeeds Gary Crizer, who was named Assistant General Manager of the Hotel
Roanoke's sister property, the Inn at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Southard was most recently in Rockville,
Maryland where he was General Manager of the Doubletree Hotel & Executive
Meeting Center.
The Garden City
Hotel on Long Island has named
Alysia DeSocio Director of Sales.
DeSocio's recently held positions include Director of Sales and Marketing at
the Inn at Fox Hollow.
Philippe
Parodi has been named Director of Sales
and Marketing for the Regent Bal Harbor in Miami due to open early 2007. He was most recently
the Regional Director of Marketing for Morgans Hotel Group
Miami, responsible for Delano and the Shore Club. Parodi also served as Director of Sales and Marketing
at the Hotel Martinez in Cannes and
Director of Sales at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris.
The Hilton Fort Lauderdale
has appointed Thomas
Parke Director of Sales and Marketing.
He was most recently the Regional Marketing Director of Inter-Continental
Resorts – Puerto Rico. Parke also held
the position of Director of Sales and Marketing at Hawaii's Turtle Bay
Resort, following a stint as Chief
Operating Officer of Cayo largo in
Puerto Rico. He also held corporate and regional sales and marketing posts for
American Golf Corporation and
Club Corporation of America.
Langham has appointed Alice Wu Cota as Director of Sales – Western Region, North America,
based in San Francisco. She was most recently the Director of Business
Development for Shangri-La – Western
Regional Sales Office.
Maureen
Stella has joined the
Carlyle as Director of Sales. She
was most recently in a similar position at the Michelangelo, also in New York and previously oversaw sales and
marketing at the Melrose, the
Rhiga Royal and the Omni
Berkshire Place.
Arthur Sands has joined the Park Hyatt Los
Angeles as Director of Catering and
Convention Services. He was most recently the Director of Catering and Social
Services at the Los Angeles Marriott Downtown.
Ellen
Thornton has joined the Ritz-Carlton
Marina del Rey as Director of Catering
Sales. She was most recently the Director of Sales for Concorde
Hotels, representing the Hotel de
Crillon, the Hotel
Martinez and the Palais de La
Méditerranée. Thornton was previously
at the Hotel Bel-Air as Director of
Sales and Leading Hotels of the World as Sales Manager, Western Region.
The Hilton Fort Lauderdale
has named Jacqueline
George Director of Human Resources. She
has previously worked with Caneel Bay Resort, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in Toronto, and Rosewood Hotels and
Resorts in Dallas.
Xavier Moulin has moved up to
Northern California to open Espace Café in Sonoma as its Owner and
General Manager. He was most
recently the Assistant Rooms Division Manager at Raffles L'Ermitage in
Beverly Hills.
Chef John
Schenk is returning to New York. He
worked at Gotham Bar and Grill and
Clementine in Manhattan before
heading to the Bellagio in Las Vegas
and then Strip House in Houston. He
will be the Executive Chef at Strip House Greenwich Village, and will also oversee the other Strip House
restaurants around the country.
Bruno
Feldeisen has joined the Soho
Metropolitan Hotel in Vancouver as
Executive Chef. He was most recently at the Wickaninnish Inn as the Executive Pastry Chef. Feldeisen was also the
Executive Pastry Chef at the Four Seasons New York, Pinot Bistro in Los Angeles and the Highlands Inn in Carmel.
Jasper
Schneider has joined the
Ritz-Carlton St. Thomas as Executive
Chef. Prior to a short stint at the Chatham Bars Inn, he was recently the opening Executive Chef at the
Palms on Turks and Caicos following
six years at La Quinta Resort and Club.
Josef
Centeno has joined
Opus in Los Angeles as Executive
Chef. He was most recently with the Domaine Restaurant Group at the recently-shuttered Meson G as their Executive Chef.
Aaron Losch has accepted the Chef de Cuisine position at ENVY
Steakhouse at the Renaissance Las
Vegas. He was most recently the Sous
Chef at BOA Steakhouse at the Forum
Shops.
Chi Ping Xu has been promoted as Executive Sous Chef at the
Drake Chicago. He had been with the
Hilton International over ten years
and held various positions from Restaurant Chef, Senior Sous Chef, Food and
Beverage Management and Banquet & Catering Service Manager at several Hilton
properties in London, Geneva, Guam, Tokyo and Shanghai.
The Fairmont San
Francisco has appointed Andrew
Ihasz as Executive Sous Chef. In 2001,
Ihasz joined Fairmont in Bermuda as
Restaurant Chef. He was then promoted to Executive Sous Chef at the Fairmont
Hamilton Princess.
Gilles
Ballay has joined the Four Seasons
Los Angeles at Beverly Hills as
Executive Pastry Chef. He was most recently the Executive Assistant Pastry Chef
at Wynn Las Vegas and previously
held various Pastry Chef positions at Marie Elaine's at the Phoenician, the Bora Bora Pearl Beach Resort, Le Cirque at the Bellagio Las Vegas and Orsay
in New York. In Los Angeles, he filled the position left vacant when Donald
Wressel left after many years at the
property.
Gerard
Partoens has joined Caesar's
Palace Las Vegas as Executive Pastry Chef. He was previously the
Executive Pastry Chef at the Adam's Mark in Denver, the Broadmoor in Colorado and, most recently, at the Reno
Hilton.
Francois
Gaertner has joined the Big Horn
Country Club in Palm Springs as Pastry
Chef. He had been in Rancho Mirage since 2000 formerly with the Ritz-Carlton
Rancho Mirage a property that later
transitioned into the Lodge at Rancho Mirage. He was most recently in a dual role as Executive Sous
Chef and Pastry Chef. The Lodge at Rancho Mirage will be closing this month for
extensive enhancements.
Michel
Keller has joined Bistro
75 in Los Angeles as opening General
Manager. He was most recently the Restaurant Manager at the Peninsula Beverly
Hills.
Jesse
Rodriguez, previously at Napa Valley's
French Laundry, has been named Head
Sommelier at Addison in the Grand
Del Mar, a resort now under
construction in North San Diego County.
Richard
Gonzales has left the Four Seasons
Washington DC as Reservations Manager
to be on the opening team of the Four Seasons Westlake
Village as Director of Revenue
Management. Gonzales also held various positions at the former Four Seasons
Newport Beach, where he spent six
years.
The Hilton Fort Lauderdale
has named Clare-Helen
Sutton Director of Revenue Management.
She was most recently in the same position with Hilton, focusing on the
Doubletree Guest Suites Galleria and
Fort Lauderdale Oceanfront Hotel.
La Costa Resort and
Spa has appointed Rianna
Riego Spa Director. She was most
recently at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa in Tucson and previously launched the opening of the
Spa Esmeralda at the Renaissance
Esmeralda Resort and Spa in Indian
Wells.
Spa Strategy has announced Elaine Fenard as a new partner joining Managing Partner Richard
Dusseau and Partner Nancy
Nemer. She joins the company after four
years as Vice President of Spa Development and Operations for
Starwood.
Dan Mohr has joined La Posada de Sante Fe as Spa Director. Mohr was most recently at the Peninsula Chicago as the Spa Director and previously at the Red Mountain Spa as the Assistant Spa Director.
EUROPE
Maybourne
has appointed Stephen Alden Chief
Executive Officer. Alden has had a career in the hotel industry in both North
America and Europe with Starwood,
most recently developing and globalizing the St. Regis brand. At Maybourne, he takes over from Geraldine
McKenna who has retired to her home on
the French Riviera.
Peter
Zenneck has joined Jumeirah
International as Vice President
Development for Europe and North Africa to be based in London. A Cornell
graduate, he spent the last three years advising Leading Hotel Fund
Advisors and its partner, Trinity
Hotel Investors on European hotel
investments. He was previously with Le Méridien Hotels and Resorts as Worldwide Director of Development and as Vice
President Development Asia/Pacific.
Tony Potter is the new Chief Executive Officer of Corinthia
Hotels International. He was most
recently the Chief Executive officer at Millennium &
Copthorne.
Dominick
Adrian has been named General
Manager-Luxury Collection for JJW Hotels and Resorts in Paris. The group's luxury collection is made up of
the Hotel de Balzac and the Hotel
de Vigny, both in Paris, acquired in
2004, the Grand Hotel in Vienna, and
Berners Hotel in London.
Paul Van Wijk has been named Managing Director of the Dolce La
Hulpe Brussels slated for opening
February 2007. He was with Warwick International Hotels since 1994 as General Manager of the Royal
Windsor in Brussels and the Warwick
New York.
Adelino
Cardoso has been named Area Director of
Finance Northern France and Director of Finance Prince de
Galles for Starwood. A Cornell graduate, he joined Starwood in 1999 as
Director of Finance at the Prince de Galles.
Alain
Lhermite has been appointed Area
Director of Finance Southern France and Director of Finance Le Méridien
Nice. He previously was the Controller
at the Le Méridien Seychelles,
moving on to Guadeloupe and Martinique.
Patrick
Divall is Area Director of Finance
England and Director of Finance of the London Complex for
Starwood. He started his career at
the Park Lane Hilton in 1993 and
spent time as the Controller at the Sheraton Algarve and the Westin Dublin.
Bernard Viola is now the pre-opening Hotel Manager at the
Ritz-Carlton Moscow. He was most
recently the Executive Assistant Manager in charge of Food and Beverage at the
Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall Jamaica.
Giorgio
Borgonovo has been appointed General
Manager at the Bath Spa Hotel in
England. He was most recently with the ATA Hotel Group at the Miramonti Majestic Grand
Hotel in Italy as General
Manager.
Jan-Paul
Kroese has been appointed Resident
Manager at the InterContinental Amstel replacing René Bornmann who is now the General Manager at Amsterdam's boutique
Dylan Hotel (formerly
Blake's). Kroese started at the
Amstel as Director of Sales and Marketing in May 2004 and was previously in
sales at the Mark in New York and
the Mandarin Oriental New York.
Katrin Herz has joined the pre-opening office as Director of Rooms
for the Ritz-Carlton Moscow. She was
most recently the House Manager at the Ritz-Carlton Penha-Longa
in Portugal.
Chris
Southwick has joined the
Ritz-Carlton Moscow as Executive
Chef. He was most recently at the
Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in
Pasadena as Executive Sous Chef.
Rene Hofmann has joined the Ritz-Carlton Moscow as Assistant Food and Beverage Director. He was most
recently the Banquet Director at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead.
ASIA AND THE
PACIFIC
Raffles Hotels &
Resorts has appointed Thomas
Meier as Area General Manager, South
East Asia & China and Riaz Mahmood as Area General Manager, Indo-China. Meier joined
Raffles in early 2000 with postings at Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh, the Swissôtel The
Stamford and, most recently, Raffles
The Plaza. Mahmood also joined Raffles
in 2000 with postings at the Swissôtel Sydney, Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor, and Raffles Hotel Le Royal, Phnom
Penh.
Azuan
Noordin has been appointed General
Manager of the Mangosteen Resort & Spa in Phuket. Noordin was most recently the Group General
Manager of Baan Yin Dee Boutique Resort.
Harry
Saptadi
has transferred as General Manager to the Swiss-Belhotel Banda Aceh, Nanggroe
Aceh Darussalam in Indonesia. He was most
recently the temporary General Manager of the Swiss-Belhotel Borneo,
Samarinda
and has previously worked for Novotel, Mandarin
Oriental
and Le Méridien.
Marc Denton has been
appointed General Manager of the Oberoi Lombok. He was most recently the
Resident Manager at the Beau Rivage Resort in
Mauritius.
Damian
O'Donnell has joined the Shangri-La
Fijian Resort as Resident Manager. He
was most recently at the Evason Hideaway and Six Senses Spa at Ana
Mandara in Vietnam as Resort Manager.
He also served at Hayman Island as
Rooms Division Manager. In addition, O'Donnell was with Four Seasons
for eight years in Chicago, Nevis,
Sydney and London.
The Dusit Resort
Pattaya has appointed Marcus
Wirsching as Resident Manager. He was
most recently the Hotel Manager of the Radisson SAS Hamburg for two years.
The Howard Johnson Plaza
Shanghai has appointed Florian
Heiner as Resident Manager. He was most
recently the Rooms Division Manager for the Dusit Thani
Bangkok. He also served at the Plaza
Athénée Bangkok, the Plaza Athénée
New York and the St. Regis New
York.
Starwood has appointed Meaghan Murta as Manager, Loyalty & Partner Marketing, replacing
Lisa Halim who will take on her new
role as Director, Leisure & Online Marketing. Murtha joins the Starwood
Asia Pacific office from the company's
Europe/Africa/Middle East divisional office in Brussels where she was Manager of
Brand Standards & Compliance. She will be based in
Singapore.
Matthew
Siegel has been named Director of Food
and Beverage at the Tanglin Club in
Singapore. He was most recently the Executive Assistant Manager in charge of
Food and Beverage at the Kowloon Hotel in Hong Kong.
Jasmina
Janik has been appointed Director of
Sales and Marketing at the Howard Johnson Plaza Shanghai. She was most recently the Director of Sales and
Marketing at the Sheraton Tianjin
and has served with Starwood and
Shangri-La in China, in a similar
capacity.
Theo Ocks has been appointed Director of Marketing at the
Ritz-Carlton Jakarta and JW
Marriott Jakarta. Ocks previously spent
six years with Accor, where his most
recent assignment was the repositioning and rebranding of the Novotol Clarke
Quay Singapore. He also served as
Country Director of Sales and Marketing
for Accor Indonesia from 2003 to
2005.
Thomas
Ng has been named Director of
Sales of
the Luxe Manor in Hong Kong. Ng has held
different sales positions at the Holiday Inn Golden Mile Hong
Kong,
Regal Hong Kong Hotel and New World Harbour
View Hotel
and was most recently had been a part of the pre-opening team for Langham
Place since January
2004.
After seven years as Executive
Housekeeper at the Peninsula Hong Kong, Ariane Iken Lellmann has moved to
Sydney and joined Lausanne Graduate Liz Lycette providing Housekeeping specific consulting services
through their company L&A Hospitality consultants.
Eddy Tao has joined the Howard Johnson Plaza
Shanghai as Front Office Manager. He
has previously held positions as Assistant Front Office Manager and Reservations
Manager at the Sofitel Jing Jiang Oriental Shanghai.
MIDDLE EAST
AND AFRICA
Scott
Mawhinney has joined the Shangri-La
Barr al Jissah Resort in Oman as
Resident Manager. He was most recently the opening General Manager of the
Evason Hideaway at Ana Mandara and
was previously the General Manager at the Brentwood Bay Lodge &
Spa in Victoria, Canada, the Soho
Metropolitan Hotel in Toronto and the
Hotel Bora Bora.
Alain Chatel has joined Mövenpick Hotels &
Resorts as the General Manager of the
Mövenpick Resort & Spa in El
Gouna. He had previously been the General Manager at Le Méridien Hotels
in Tahiti, Bora Bora, Dakar and, most
recently, Le Méridien Eko Hotel & Suites in Lagos.
InterContinental has appointed Pascal Gauvin Director of Operations, United Arab Emirates and Qatar,
as well as General Manager of the Crowne Plaza Dubai. Gauvin first joined InterContinental in 1993 as
Food and Beverage Manager at InterContinental Hotel Paris and has since held several managerial positions in the
Philippines, Lebanon, Malaysia and Singapore.
Stephan
Schupbach has joined the
Emirates Towers Hotel
in Dubai as Resident Manager. He was most recently at the One&Only Reethi
Rah Maldives in the same
position and was previously with Ritz Carlton Hotels in Germany, the Caribbean and
Colorado.
Robert Scoon transfers as Director of Engineering to the Four
Seasons Hotel Alexandria at San Stefano, Egypt slated for opening in early 2007. Scoon has been with the Four Seasons
Nevis for eight years, most recently as
their Director of Engineering.
Didier Jacob has been appointed Chef de Cuisine at the
One&Only Royal Mirage in Dubai.
He was most recently at Sandy Lane in Barbados as Chef de Cuisine.
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