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Global Update: Who's where and doing
what:
January 2007
THE AMERICAS
Ted Kleisner has been named Chief Executive Officer of Hershey
Entertainment & Resort replacing
Scott Newkam who has announced plans
to retire. Kleisner spent the past two decades at The
Greenbrier from where he retired
recently as President and Chief Executive Officer.
C. Robert McEleney has been promoted to President of Callaway
Gardens in Georgia from his current
position of Vice President/Managing Director. He has held senior leadership
positions with The Resort at Squaw Creek, the Ihilani Resort and Spa, American Skiing Company, Olympus Hospitality Group and Millennium Hotels and Resorts.
Coni Thornburg has been appointed General Manager at the Lodge at
Pebble Beach. She had been in Denver as
the General Manager at the Hotel Teatro since 2000. David Craig has been promoted from his position as Hotel Manager at
the hotel to replace her. Previously, Thornburg was part of the executive
management team at Aspen’s Little Nell hotel for ten years, following nine years with Four
Seasons.
Mike McMahon has been promoted to General Manager of the
Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort Naples
where he has been the Hotel Manager since July 2004. Previously, he was the
Director of Sales and Marketing for both Ritz-Carlton properties in Naples.
Michael King
has been appointed General Manager at
the Ritz-Carlton Denver. King has
been with Ritz-Carlton for eighteen years and was most recently the General
Manager of the Ritz-Carlton Cleveland.
Alberto Pirozzini
has joined the Abaco Club at Winding
Bay in the Bahamas, a property operated
by Ritz-Carlton, as Managing
Director. He transfers from the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman where he was the Executive Assistant Manager-Director
of Rooms. Previously, he was the General Manager at Rome’s Boscolo Aleph
Hotel and Director of Operations at the
W Los Angeles.
James Soulé
has been appointed General Manager at the Gaia Hotel Napa
Valley. He comes from the Sonoma
Valley Inn where he was the General
Manager. Soulé is a former Director of Food and Beverage at Auberge du
Soleil.
Kristin Howsley has been named President and Managing Director at the
Fairmount Hotel in San Antonio. She
replaces Sergio Ortiz who is now the
General Manager of the Driskill in
Austin.
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Carl Henderson has been appointed General Manager
at Sandy Lane. For the past three years, he was the General Manager of
Parrot Cay. Henderson is also a former Managing Director at
Frégate Island Private in
the Seychelles.
Blantyre in the Berkshires has appointed
Dennis Barquinero General Manager. He has had a long association with
Blantyre's owner, Ann Fitzpatrick Brown, having previously worked at the
Red Lion Inn and the Porches Inn. Most recently, he was the
General Manager of two hotels operated by Nantucket Island Resorts:
the White Elephant and Harbor House Village.
Tania Jones has been promoted to
General Manager of the White Elephant, for Nantucket Island
Resorts. At the hotel, she has previously held the positions of Executive
Housekeeper, Front Office Manager and Innkeeper. Since 2005, Jones has been the
General Manager of the White Elephant's sister property, The Cottages at
the Boat Basin and will have the dual role of General Manager at both
properties.
Cornell man Norman Rich
has left Los Angeles to join the
Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland,
Oregon. For the past four years, he had been the Chief Operating Officer at the
Jonathan Club after spending nine
years with MCA/Universal.
Mark Briskin has joined the New York Helmsley Hotel
as General Manager. A long time New
Yorker, he has previously been the General Manager at Top of the
Rock, The Muse and with Amsterdam Hospitality.
Stephan
Nicolas has been promoted by
RockResorts to Keystone
in Colorado as General Manager. He was
previously the Resident Manager at the Equinox Resort and Spa.
Jeffrey
Felshaw has joined the hip Hotel
on Rivington in New York as General Manager. For the past two years,
he had been the General Manager of the City Club Hotel of New
York. Felshaw also was the Director of Sales
and Marketing at The Regent Wall Street.
The Delta
King
historic riverboat has appointed Paul Wolman General Manager. He was
most recently at the Salish Lodge and Spa as Food and Beverage
Director. Previously, he had worked as the Food and Beverage Director at the
Hilton Monterey and the Stouffer
Hotel Presidente in Cancun.
Larry Magor has been named Managing Director at the Wyndham
Sugar Bay Resort and Spa in St. Thomas.
Most recently, he was the Managing Director at the Wyndham Bermuda Resort and
Spa and served as the General Manager
of the Wyndham Northwest Chicago Resort and Spa.
The Hyatt Regency Bonaventure Conference Center and
Spa has named Fred
Euler General Manager. He has been with
Hyatt for thirty years, most recently as General Manager of the Hyatt Regency
Lake Tahoe Resort and Spa.
Cornell hotelman Richard Lee returns to the hospitality industry as General Manager
at the Marabou Ranch in Steamboat
Springs. For the past two years, he was with Bank of Hawaii but was previously the General Manager at the
Outrigger Canoe Club in Honolulu,
the Lodge at Stillwater in Utah and
the Brooks Lake Lodge in Jackson
Hole.
Thomas James has been named General Manager at the Whitetail Club
and Resort in Northern Idaho, owned and
operated by San Diego-based Manchester Grand Resorts. He came from the Lodge at Torrey Pines
where he was the Director of Food and
Beverage. He had previously been the Director of Catering and Conference
Services at Carmel Valley Ranch.
Smith Munro has been named General Manager at the Renaissance
Vancouver Hotel Harbourside. He was
most recently the General Manager of the Crowne Plaza Hotel
Georgia, also in
Vancouver.
David Chase has been named Hotel Manager at the Ritz-Carlton New
York Battery Park replacing Allen
Highfield. He was most recently the
Area Director of Catering and Conference Services for Ritz-Carlton Hotels of
New York and has previously held
catering positions at the Ritz-Carlton Boston, the
Ritz-Carlton San Francisco and
The St. Regis New York.
Patrick
Franssen has been appointed Hotel
Manager at the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne. He joins from the JW Marriott hotel in Quito where he was the General Manager since
January 2004.
Cornell graduate Peter Nowotny is the
new Resort Manager at the Sandia Resort and Casino in Albuquerque. He
comes to New Mexico via the Bonaventure Resort and Spa where he was
consulting. Previously, he spent six years with Adam’s Mark Hotels and
Resorts in Buffalo and Dallas.
Sergio Nunez del Prado has joined the Paradise Village
Resort in Puerto Vallarta
as Operations Manager. For the past
three years, he was with Ritz-Carlton, most recently as the Club Level Operations Manager for
the Ritz-Carlton St. Thomas. He also
served at the Ritz-Carlton Washington DC as Assistant Front Office Manager and the
Ritz-Carlton Santiago as Director of
Guest Services.
David Clark
has joined Blackstone’s The
Peaks in Telluride as Director of
Culinary Operations. Most recently he was at the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor
Gulch as Executive Assistant Manager.
Clark is a previous Executive Chef of Beano’s Cabin for Vail Resorts.
Maureen McGrath has joined SBE Entertainment as Vice President Sales. She has previously worked with the
Hollywood and Highland complex as
Director of Special Events. She held a similar role at the House of
Blues, also in
Hollywood.
Barceló Hotels & Resorts has promoted Oscar Serrano to Senior Director of Sales & Marketing for North
America, and Fernando Ortiz to Sales
Manager for the Southeast, U.S. Serrano was most recently the Commercial
Director for North America. Ortiz was previously the Assistant Commercial
Director for North America.
Richard Carroll has joined the Chatham Bars Inn in Cape Cod as Director of Sales and Marketing. He was
most recently the Director of Group Sales at Harbor View and Kelley House on Martha’s Vineyard. Previously, he was the Director
of Sales at the Chanler at Cliff Walk in Newport and at the Ocean Edge
Resort on Cape
Cod.
David
Chu has joined the
Dylan Hotel in New York as
Director of Sales and Marketing. Prior to joining the Dylan, Chu worked for
Kimpton in New York and
was previously at the InterContinental-The Barclay.
Megan
Ferguson has joined the Four Seasons
Worldwide Sales Office in New York, as
Manager, Worldwide Sales, replacing Lara Hanlon who has left the company. Ferguson was most recently a
Sales Manager at the Four Seasons Philadelphia.
The Hyatt Regency Bonaventure has appointed Kelly Commerford Director of Sales and Marketing. Commefford joins Hyatt
from a four-year tenure at Dolce International as the Western Regional Director of Sales and Marketing
for the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San
Jose and the Director of Sales and Marketing for the Dolce Oak Ridge
Conference Center in
Minnesota.
Agnelo Fernandes has joined the Canyon Ranch Miami
Beach as Director of Sales and
Marketing. His most recent position was that of Director of Sales and
Marketing at the Sonesta Coconut Grove.
Pete Zudyk, formerly the Director of Brand Marketing for Hard
Rock International, is the new Director of Marketing for ME by Sol
Melia in Florida. When Sol Melia and
Hard Rock ended their alliance,
Zudyk followed Melia to be the Director of Marketing of the new “hip” brand
ME by Melia. Zudyk rejoins his
former colleague Guy Hensley, now ME
by Melia’s Senior Vice President of Operations and formerly a Senior Vice
President for W Hotels.
The Ritz-Carlton Lake Las
Vegas has appointed Marina Nicola Director of Public Relations. She
comes from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors
Authority.
Mary Barrett has transferred to the Ritz-Carlton Lake Las
Vegas as Director of Meetings and
Special Events. She has previously been with the company in Jamaica and the
Cayman Islands, among other locales.
Samantha Walder
has been appointed Director of Human Resources at the Four Seasons Los
Angeles, replacing Nancy
Kupka. Walder comes from “Down Under”
where for the past two years she was the Assistant Director of Human Resources
at the Four Seasons Sydney.
Previously she worked with the Observatory Hotel and additional Orient-Express hotels in Australia.
Hakan Kocak has been named Director of Food and Beverage at the
Huntley in Santa Monica, where he
will be responsible for launching a new rooftop restaurant and lounge as well as
revamping room service and banquets. Formerly a partner in a catering company in
Santa Barbara, Kocak also served as Food and Beverage Manager at the
Peninsula-owned Quail
Lodge in Carmel.
William Koval has relocated to Seattle, returning to Noble House
Hotels and Resorts as their Corporate
Regional Chef in addition to holding down the Executive Chef duties at the
Edgewater Hotel. Koval had left
Noble House in 2005, after eleven years as the Executive Chef of its flagship,
the Adolphus in Dallas. He was most
recently the Corporate Executive Chef for Culinaire
International, based in
Dallas.
Katsuo “Suki” Sugiura will be moving to Boston to be the Executive Chef at
the former Ritz-Carlton Boston recently acquired by Taj
International. He will remain at the Beverly
Hilton through this year’s Golden
Globes Awards. Prior to joining the Beverly Hilton, Sugiura was the Executive
Chef at the Beverly Hills Hotel. In
Boston, he takes over from Ritz-Carlton Executive Chef Gael
Cruchet, who is being relocated by the
company.
Rolf Weithofer has joined Bally’s Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City as Executive Chef. He was most recently
in Puerto Rico as Executive Chef of the El Conquistador Resort and
Casino. Previously he spent eighteen
years with InterContinental most
notably as the Executive Chef in San Juan, Los Angeles and
Maui.
Christophe Bellanca, a former Chef at L’Orangerie in Los Angeles, has moved to New York where he joined
Le Cirque as Executive Chef. He replaces Pierre
Schaedelin, who had joined Le Cirque (in its previous location) in
1999, following seven years with Alain Ducasse in London and Monaco.
Olivier Gaupin has joined Alys Beach in Florida as Executive Chef. For the past five years,
he was a few miles away at the WaterColor resort as
Executive Sous Chef.
Ron Boyd has
joined Aqua in San Francisco as
Executive Chef, taking over from Peter Armellino, who has gone to the Plumed Horse in Saratoga. Boyd was most recently down the street at
the Grand Café after spending time
in Napa Valley at Domaine Chandon
and Julia’s Kitchen at
COPIA.
Philippe Trosch
is the new Chef/Owner at La Taverna
in Tucson. For the past four years, he
had been at the Loews Ventana Canyon
also in Tucson, where his successor is Marc Ehrler.
Patrick Mullin has been promoted to Executive Chef at the Lodge at
Pebble Beach. He was most recently the
Executive Sous Chef for the hotel.
Ressul Rassallat has been named Chef de Cuisine at the Lodge at
Pebble Beach, responsible for Club
XIX. Rassallat had been in Los Angeles
for the past three years most recently as the Executive Sous Chef at the
Hillcrest Country Club and
previously the Chef de Cuisine for Gardens restaurant at the Four Seasons Los
Angeles.
Ryan Farr is
currently the interim Executive Chef at San Francisco’s Fifth Floor
since Melissa
Perello’s departure at the beginning of
the month. He will move over to Orson after the Kimpton Group chooses Perello's permanent replacement. Before joining
the Fifth Floor as Chef de Cuisine, he was the Sous Chef at Charles Nob
Hill, also under Perello.
Bradley Manchester has been appointed Executive Chef of Houston’s Hotel
ZaZa (the former Warwick
Hotel) and its
Monarch restaurant and lounge. He
was the Executive Chef at the Renaissance Las Vegas and previously served as Assistant Executive Chef at
the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and
Chef Tournant at Caesar’s Palace.
Drew Sayes
is the new Chef de Cuisine at Jer-Né
restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey, replacing
Dakota Weiss, now the Chef at the
Sunset Tower Hotel. Sayes was
previously the Chef de Cuisine at the Ritz-Carlton Dearborn and served as Sous Chef at the Four Seasons
Chicago.
John Hui has been appointed Corporate Pastry Chef for Pebble
Beach Resorts. He was most recently the
Executive Pastry Chef at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Prior to his position at Caesar’s Palace,
Hui worked at the Westin Maui, the
Westin St. Francis, the Hyatt
Regency San Francisco, and the San
Francisco Marriott.
Wynn Las
Vegas has appointed Linda
Brookins Director of Restaurant Events.
Brookins was previously the Sales Manager for the Palm Steakhouse Restaurant
Group, first at its flagship location
in New York City and, more recently, at its Caesar’s Palace outlet.
J. Walter Hess
has transferred to the Four Seasons
Costa Rica as Assistant Director of
Rooms. He has served in various positions with the company for eleven years in
Washington DC, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Chicago.
Austin Chen has joined the Chamberlain West
Hollywood as Director of
Guest Services. For the past two years he has been the Guest Services Manager at
the Avalon in Beverly
Hills.
EUROPE
Malta-based Corinthia
Hotels has appointed Tony
Potter Chief Executive Officer. He was
previously the Group Chief Executive Officer at Millennium &
Copthorne. Prior to that, Potter was
the Chief Executive Officer of Choice Hotels International
Europe. He also spent nineteen years with Hilton
International, serving as Senior Vice
President Europe, and Senior Vice President North America.
The Ascari Race
Resort in Spain has appointed Frank
Pfaller Chief Executive Officer. His
prior assignments include Vice President/Managing Director positions at Las
Dunas, Puente Romano and Marbella Club all in Marbella. In addition, he has previously worked
at Le Touessrok in Mauritius and
Guanahani on St.
Barth.
Alain Duval is moving to Benouville, France as General Manager
of Le Manoir d’Hastings
and La Pommeraie. He was most recently with Kuwait Royal Holdings
as Vice President Food and Beverage.
Previously, Duval spent four years with Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong as Group Director of Food and Beverage.
>From 1973 to 1998, he was with InterContinental.
Serge Reinhard
has been appointed General Manager of
the Novotel Cannes Montfleury. He
transfers from the Sofitel Montreal where he was the Director of Operations. He was
previously at the Sofitel Royal Casino in Cannes.
Charles
Otter
has been named General Manager at the Park Inn
in Russia. His most recent position was Executive Assistant Manager at the
Radisson SAS Royal Hotel
in St. Petersburg.
Patrick Brans has been named Director of Operations at the Capella
Castlemartyr in Ireland. He just spent
eleven years with Ritz-Carlton. Most
notably, he served as the Executive Assistant Manager at the Ritz-Carlton Key
Biscayne and the Ritz-Carlton
Boston.
Xavier Le
Ru has
transferred as General Manager to the Concorde
Ambassador in Paris where he
started his career in 1989. He was most recently the General Manager at the
Hotel du Louvre also in
Paris.
Jacques Vitu has been named City General
Manager for the Radisson
SAS
Palace and the Radisson SAS Balmoral, both in Spa, Belgium. He was most
recently the General Manager at the Hotel Andrassy in Budapest and previously served
as Resident Manager at Le Plaza
Brussels.
Marcos
Torres-Mueller has been appointed
Director of Sales and Marketing for Rocco Forte’s Hotel de Rome in Berlin. He has been with the company since February
2006, having previously been Rocco Forte Hotels’ Director of Outbound Sales for
Germany, Austria and Switzerland, based at Villa Kennedy in Frankfurt.
Nicolas
Villemin has been appointed Director of
Sales and Marketing at the Hyatt Regency Almaty, in Kazakhstan. He was most recently based in Dubai at
the One&Only Royal Mirage.
ASIA AND THE
PACIFIC
Merril Yu has joined the SM Group in Manila as Senior Vice President, Hotel Investment
Group. Yu was most recently the opening General Manager for the Grand Xianglu
Hotel in China. He also served as
Executive Director of Operations at the Carl Icahn-owned Stratosphere Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Bali’s Nusa Dua Beach
Hotel, part of the holdings of the
Sultan of Brunei, has a new General
Manager in Reto Torriani. The Swiss
hotelier is returning to Asia where his last position was that of General
Manager at the Kempinski Leela Palace in Goa, over six years ago. Torriani had also been the
opening General Manager at the Chedi Ubud and is therefore not a newcomer to Bali. He was most
recently the Resort Manager at Cheeca Lodge, in Florida, a former Rockresort. At Nusa Dua, Torriani takes over from long-time Vice
President and General Manager Danny McCafferty.
Charles
Morris has been promoted to General
Manager of the Peninsula Bangkok,
taking over from Rainy Chang who is
now the General Manager of the Peninsula Hong Kong. For the past two years, Morris had been the Executive
Assistant Manager at the Peninsula Manila and had previously worked with Six
Senses, Raffles
International and Sun
International.
Chris Steuri
has been appointed General Manager at
the Poipu Beach Resort on Kauai. He
comes from a ten-year tenure as General Manager at the Renaissance Stanford
Court in San Francisco where his
successor is Bill Love. Prior to San
Francisco, Steuri was the General Manager for three years at the Renaissance
Vancouver Hotel Harbourside.
General Manager Kai
Speth has transferred from the Park
Hyatt Los Angeles to the Hyatt Regency Incheion in Korea. The Park Hyatt Los Angeles
has been re-branded
InterContinental this month. Speth
has been with Hyatt since 1996 in Beaver Creek, Taipei, Bali and Seoul. He also
spent three years at the Four Seasons New York.
Philippe
Caretti has been appointed General
Manager at the Hotel Mulia Senayan
in Jakarta, taking over from Francois Cnockaert, now the General Manager of the
soon-to-open Ritz-Carlton
Guanghzou. For the past thirteen years,
Lausanne-educated Caretti had held executive level positions with Shangri-La
in Manila, Shanghai, Taipei and Hong
Kong.
Brian
Connelly has joined the
InterContinental Shenzen as General
Manager. He spent the past three years with Oakwood Asia
Pacific, as Director of Food and Beverage.
Previously, he was the General Manager of the Seoul Hilton.
The Crowne Plaza Kobe in Tokyo has appointed Ian Reid General Manager. He was most recently the General
Manager of the Westin Guam and was
previously the General Manager of the Sheraton Sapporo.
Christoph
Voegeli will take charge as General
Manager at the Hanoi Horison Hotel.
He joins from the Sanur Beach Hotel
where he was the General Manager.
Philippe Cavory
has been named Hotel Manager at the
Angsana Resort and Spa and Banyan
Tree Hotel Velavaru. He was most
recently the Hotel Manager and Marketing Manager at the Banyan Tree Maison
Souvannaaphoum.
Lois Shore will join Outrigger in the newly created position of Vice President of
Distribution, to be based in Hawaii. She was most recently the Senior Vice
President of Sales, Marketing and Public Relations for the New York based
Ensemble Travel Group. In addition, she
has previously worked with Classic Vacations, GetThere.com, and Visa USA in various marketing related positions.
Rodolphe Gay has been appointed Resident Manager at the Alila
Phuket. He joins from the Mandarin Oriental
Dhara Dhevi where he had been the
Director of Food and Beverage since 2004. His previous island experience
includes serving as the Food and Beverage Manager at Parrot Cay
and at the Bora Bora Lagoon
Resort.
Marriott
International
has appointed Andre Baljeu Director of Field Technology, Asia
Pacific, to be based in Kuala Lumpur. He joins Marriott
from
Tourism
Hotels Leisure LTD,
where he held the position of General Manager - IT, based in Sydney.
Jean Luc
Fourrier has transferred as Vice
President Food and Beverage, Middle East and Asia for Hilton
Hotels based in Singapore. He was most
recently based in Australia as the General Manager of the Adelaide
Hilton and previously of the Sydney
Airport Hilton. In addition, he used to
be the Area Director, Food and Beverage, Asia-Pacific for Hilton
International in Singapore and
Tokyo.
Taking over from Fourrier
at the Adelaide Hilton
is Christopher
Ehmann. He has been a Director of Operations for Hilton
in Dubai, Jeddah, Bucharest and, for
the past three years, at the Nile Hilton in Cairo.
The Hilton Cebu Resort and
Spa has appointed Samuel
Gacos Director of Sales and Marketing.
He was most recently in the same position at the Traders Hotel
Manila.
Ayumi
Sakamoto has relocated to
Singapore, representing the Four Seasons Maldives. For the past three years, she was a
Sales Manager at the Four Seasons Shanghai after playing a similar role at the
Four Seasons Tokyo.
Gerhard Doll
has transferred as Executive Chef to the Peninsula Tokyo. He was most recently at the Peninsula Manila
as Executive Chef and was previously in
the same position at the Peninsula Chicago and the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong.
Franco
Brodini has been
promoted to Executive Chef at the newly re-opened Rasa Sayang
Shangri-La in Penang. He
was most recently the Executive Sous Chef at the Shangri-La
Singapore.
Christian
Rassinoux has transferred to the
Ritz-Carlton Portman in Shanghai as
Executive Chef. He has been with the company since 1984, serving twenty-one
years as the Executive Chef at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel.
Andres
Lopez-Dafonte has been appointed Rooms
Division Manager at Amanresorts’
Hotel Bora Bora. He has previously
worked with Pearl Resorts and on
property at the Manihi Pearl Beach Resort as the Rooms Division Manager.
Treys
Ladrido is the new Beverage Director at
Brewerkz in Singapore. A Cornell
graduate, she was previously in Las Vegas as Sommelier at
Tableau and Restaurant
Alex, both at Wynn Las
Vegas, and at
Jasmine and Aqua both at the Bellagio.
MIDDLE EAST AND
AFRICA
Moritz
Klein is the new General
Manager at the Amwaj Rotana Resort in Dubai. He had previously been a part
of the pre-opening team at the Empire Hotel and Country Club and has worked in hotels all over the
world including the Hotel Baltschug Kempinski Moscow, Claridge's, the Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski
Munich and the New
World Hotel,
Saigon.
Jean-Pierre
Simon is now the General
Manager at the Diani Reef Resort and Spa, in Kenya. He just completed two
years as General Manager of the Sands Resort in Mauritius. Simon also spent many years
in the Middle East, most recently as Hotel Manager at the Al Jazira
Hotel in Abu Dhabi, and
the Jebel Ali Hotel in
Dubai.
Alain
Rigazzi has transferred to the
Mövenpick Izmir in Turkey as General
Manager. He comes from the same position at the Mövenpick Hotel
Doha and was previously the General
Manager at the Warwick Seattle for
five years.
Alan Stocker has joined the Shanti Ananda Spa
Resort in Mauritius as the General
Manager. For the past five years he had been the General Manager at
BodyHoliday at LeSport on St.
Lucia.
Yassine
Hamdouch is now in Morocco as the
General Manager for Mandarine Hotels. He was most recently the General Manager at Le
Méridien Fisherman's Cove in the
Seychelles.
Axel Jarosch has joined the Lémuria Resort in the Seychelles as Resident Manager. He comes from a
brief stint at the Constance Lodge GocheGanas in Namibia where he was
the General Manager/Lodge Manager. Previously, he was at Le Prince
Maurice in Mauritius as the Executive
Assistant Manager and the Andaman Langkawi where he was the Executive Assistant Manager in charge
of Food and Beverage.
Olivier
Larcher has joined the Westcliff Hotel in Johannesburg as Deputy
General Manager. He was previously at the Bora Bora Lagoon Resort where
he served as Hotel Manager and Financial Controller.
The Mövenpick Hotel Bur
Dubai has appointed Lincoln
Davis Director of Training. Davis
started his career at the Forte Grand Dubai in 1994 and was most recently the Area Quality and
Training Director of two Le Méridien
properties in Malaysia.
Hakim Karoui has been promoted to Food and Beverage Manager at the
Mövenpick Hotel Bur Dubai. He was
moved up from his previous position as the Assistant Food and Beverage Manager
at the property and has previously worked at the Mövenpick Ulysse Palace and
Thalasso in Djerba as Assistant Food
and Beverage Manager.
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