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Global Update: Who's where and doing
what:
October 2006
THE
AMERICAS
Nick Clayton has joined the Kor Group as President, taking the spot left vacant by John
Arnett a few months ago. Since the
summer of 2001, Clayton was with the Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Group as the Operations Director for
Asia and Europe. He was hired by Mandarin Oriental as he was concluding a
thirteen-year career with Ritz-Carlton as the General Manager of the Ritz-Carlton Millennia
Singapore.
Meg Crofton has been named President of Walt Disney
World, taking over for Al
Weiss who becomes President of Walt
Disney Parks and Resorts. Crofton has
been with Disney for twenty-seven years.
Christian
Hempell has been appointed Vice
President, Strategy - The Americas - for InterContinental Hotels
Group to be based in Atlanta. Hempell
was most recently based in London for IHG as their VP Global Strategy. He is a
Cornell graduate.
Rudy Sharp has taken on added responsibility for Centex
Destination Properties as Area Manager
Central Region. He is now responsible for three resort communities: Pointe
West, The Waters at Horseshoe
Bay and The Hollows at Lake
Travis where he has been the Resort
General Manager since May 2005. Prior to joining Centex, Sharp was the Managing
Director at The Depot in Minneapolis
and the General Manager at the Magnolia Hotel in Dallas.
Rob Goldberg has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Tim
Harmon's Moana Hotel and Restaurant
Group in Mill Valley. The group
includes the Piatti restaurants,
Redd, Paragon and El Dorado Kitchen. For the past six years, Goldberg was with Gordon
Getty's and (San Francisco Mayor)
Gavin Newsom's PlumpJack
Group as Chief Executive
Officer.
Lausanne graduate Christian
Clerc, General Manager of the Four
Seasons Punta Mita since November 2003,
has been promoted to Regional Vice President with responsibility over
Mexico.
Edward
Steiner has been promoted to Senior
Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean for One&Only
Resorts while continuing as Managing
Director of the One&Only Palmilla. He joined Palmilla in May 2003 after overseeing
Rosewood's Las Ventanas al
Para’so for almost seven
years.
Radisson Hotels and Resorts
International Latin America has
appointed Denise Estefan Litten to
the position of President. Litten, a Cornell graduate, has served as Vice
President of Radisson Hotels and Resorts Latin America for the past four
years.
Yves
Gerondeau has been appointed General
Manager at the hip Faena Hotel & Universe in Buenos Aires, replacing Denis
Gruhier. Gerondeau joins from the
Ritz-Carlton Santiago, where he was
the Hotel Manager.
Gregory
Sheets has joined Pechanga Hotel and
Casino in North San Diego County as
Vice President Hotel Operations. He was most recently in the same position at
the Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa
in Las Vegas. In addition, Sheets
was the opening Director of Hotel Operations at the Palms Casino
Resort in Las Vegas, following nine
years with Four Seasons in Los
Angeles, Dallas, Las Vegas, Palm Beach and Maui. Sheets is a Cornell
graduate.
Bill Linehan rejoins InterContinental as Vice President, Marketing and New Business
Development to be based in Atlanta. Most recently, Linehan was with
Starwood as the Vice President,
Marketing and Strategic Development Partnerships. He was previously with
InterContinental as the company's Director of the New York City-based worldwide
sales team.
Bryan
O'Shields has left the Barish
Group to come home to Las Vegas as
Corporate Senior Director of Food and Beverage for Jeffrey
Soffer's Fontainebleau
Resorts. In addition to the 1,600-room
Fontainebleau Resort in Miami,
currently undergoing major renovations, the company will be building the
3,800-room Fontainebleau Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on the 26-acre lot it owns on the Strip
across from Circus Circus.
Cornell graduate Alberto
Andrade has joined the Kor
Group as Area General Manager
overseeing the Sheraton Gateway and
the Delfina both in Los Angeles. He
was most recently the General Manager at the Renaissance New
York since 1993. Prior to this, he was
Vice President Operations Mexico for Stouffer Presidente Hotels and
Resorts.
Allen
Highfield has been promoted to General
Manager of the Ritz-Carlton Georgetown. He was most recently the Interim General Manager
of the Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park (and the property's Hotel Manager since 2004).
Highfield was previously the Director of Operations at the Ritz-Carlton
Bachelor Gulch and the Rooms Division
Manager at the Little Nell in
Aspen.
Joe Mottershead has joined L'Auberge de Sedona as General Manager. He most recently served in the same
capacity at the Hilton Checkers in
Los Angeles.
Mark Herron has transferred to the Four Seasons
Houston as General Manager taking over
for Ramesh Sadhwani who has left to
be the General Manager for the Tower Suites at Wynn Las Vegas. Herron was most recently the Resort Manager at the
Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa
Barbara and previously the Hotel Manager at the Four Seasons
Seattle. He had also been the Hotel
Manager at the Four Seasons Houston.
Michael Carsch has been appointed President of the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno. He was most recently the General Manager at the Fisher Island Club in Miami, following twenty years with Ritz-Carlton as General Manager in Key Biscayne, Tyson's Corner, and Amelia Island.
Mark Everton
has been named General Manager of the Hilton San Francisco Financial
District. He was most recently the
General Manager at the Oakland Marriott City Center and the Managing Director of the Oakland Convention
Center. Everton had also been the
Director of Operations at the Renaissance Parc 55 and the Controller at the Four Seasons
Clift.
David
Gibbons has been appointed General
Manager at the Lenox in Boston.
Since 1985, Gibbons had been with Swissôtel, most recently as the General Manager of the
now-shuttered Drake Swissôtel in New
York.
Brad Poncher has been named General Manager for Homewood Suites
by Hilton La Quinta and the Desert
Villas both due for opening at the
beginning of 2007. Poncher most recently spent close to a year in a dual role in
La Jolla as General Manager of the Sea Lodge and Resident Manager of the La Jolla Beach &
Tennis Club. He previously spent twelve
years as the Vice-President and General Manager of the Smoke Tree
Ranch.
Wim Pastoor is the new General Manager of the Barefoot
Resort in Myrtle Beach. He was
previously a Vice President for Sandcastle Hotels and Resorts.
Richard
Behr has been appointed General Manager
of Miramonte in Indian Wells for
Destination Hotels and Resorts. He
was most recently the General Manager of the Hilton Scottsdale Resort and
Villas.
Gordon Overing
and Nathalie
Gingras-Overing are the new General
Managers at Sir Richard Branson's
Necker Island. The Caribbean
veterans spent sixteen years at the Bitter End Yacht Club, where he was the Activities Director and she was the
Retail Buyer. Gingras had also been a Buyer at Little Dix Bay from 1990
to 1992. At Necker, they took over from Shawn and Beverly
Matthews, who have left the island.
Fred
Findlen has joined the Hyatt Regency
Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marina as General Manager. A twenty-one-year Hyatt man, he
most recently served as General Manager of the Hyatt Dorado
Beach in Puerto Rico. He also held
management positions at the Hyatt Key West, the Hyatt Regency Cerromar Beach, the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress and the Grand Hyatt Washington, D.C.
Eric Adame has been appointed General Manager at the Hotel
Contessa in San Antonio. He was most
recently the General Manager of the Hotel ICON in Houston.
Charles
Nehme is the new General Manager at the
Northland Inn in Brooklyn Park,
Minnesota. He was most recently the President of a small hotel management
company based in Texas and previously the Regional Vice President of Operations
with Signet Hotel Corporation. Nehme
began his hospitality career with Marriott.
David Barnes has
joined the Four Seasons Philadelphia as
Hotel Manager taking over for Alper Oztok who is now at the Four Seasons Nevis. Barnes was most recently at Chaminade in Santa Cruz, as General
Manager.
Lloyd Van
Horn is now at
Topnotch in Stowe as Resort Manager.
He was most recently the Resort Manager at Lajitas, The Ultimate
Hideout in Texas. Prior to joining
Lajitas, Van Horn was the General Manager at the Willcox in South Carolina and Assistant General Manager for
The Point in New York, both for the
Garrett Hotel Group.
Marc Reydams has been named Director of Operations at the
Cheyenne Mountain Resort in
Colorado. He was most recently the Director of Operations at the
Lansdowne Resort in Virginia and was
previously the Food and Beverage Director at the McLean
Hilton.
Duncan
Clements has joined
Kimpton's Hotel
Monaco in Chicago as Assistant General
Manager. He was most recently in Budapest at the
InterContinental as Executive
Assistant Manager and had worked with InterContinental in Cleveland as Food and
Beverage Director.
Guy Genoud has been appointed Assistant General Manager at the
Brown in Louisville. He was most
recently the Director of Food and Beverage at the Hilton Rye
Town and was previously the Assistant
Director of Food and Beverage at the Atlanta Hilton and
Towers.
Dan
Weindruch has been named Chief
Financial Officer at the French Lick Resort Casino in Indiana. Most recently, he was the General Manager
at the Coushatta Casino Resort in
Louisiana and was previously the Vice President and General Manager for the
Isle of Capri Casino in
Missouri.
Lee Hanke is the new Controller at Destination Resorts
Snowmass. This is Hanke's second
assignment with Destination Hotels & Resorts as he worked for the company's Stonebridge
Inn in Snowmass in the late
1990s.
Dan Tanner has been named Director of Food and Beverage at the
Reunion Resort & Club in
Orlando. Tanner was most recently at the Westin Diplomat Resort &
Spa as the Assistant Director of Food
and Beverage and previously opened that property as Director of
Banquets.
Mara Bouvier has joined the Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod as Director of Food and Beverage. Bouvier
comes from the Tidewater Inn in
Maryland where she was the General Manager. She was previously the Resident
Manager at the Palms on Turks and
Caicos and has been the General Manager at Strawberry Hill Spa
Resort in
Jamaica.
Paolo
Middei has
been appointed Food and Beverage Manager at Winvian in Connecticut, scheduled
to open late autumn. Middei comes from La Posta Vecchia near Rome and was
previously at the Hotel Regina Baglioni in Rome, the Oak
Room at
Le Méridien Piccadilly and Chez
Nico both
in London.
The Davidson Hotel
Company has named Stephen
Kilroy Director of Food and Beverage.
He was most recently the Manager of the Wyndham Andover Hotel in Massachusetts and has held various food and beverage
positions including Corporate Director of Operations for Shula's Steak
Houses and Corporate Director of Food
and Beverage Operations for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts.
Sébastien
Silvestri has joined the Island
Hotel in Newport Beach as Director of
Restaurants and Lounges. He comes from Las Vegas' Bellagio, where he toiled as the General Manager of
Sensi. In addition, he has held the
position of Food and Beverage Director at the Bora Bora Lagoon
Resort and that of Food and Beverage
Manager at the Mansion on Turtle Creek.
Jorg
Wesche has joined
the Hotel at Auburn University, which is
part of Horst Schulze's West
Paces Hotel Group. He was most
recently the Rooms Executive at the Ritz-Carlton Dearborn.
Sean Rearden has been appointed pre-opening Director of Sales and
Marketing for the Liberty Hotel in
Boston due to open June 2007 in what used to be the Charles Street Jail. He
comes from the Westin Copley Place
where he had served since 2001, most recently as the Director of Sales and
Marketing.
The Sutton Place
Hotel in Vancouver has appointed
Peter Bruyere Director of Sales and
Marketing. Most recently the Director of Resort Sales at the Westin Bear
Mountain Victoria Golf Resort & Spa, he also
held various sales positions with Fairmont and Four Seasons.
Sam Zabawsky has been named pre-opening Director of Sales and
Marketing for the Sandpearl Resort
in Florida, slated to open June 2007. He was most recently the Director of
Resort Marketing at Sea Pines Resort
on Hilton Head Island.
Leasa
Kennedy has joined the Cove Lakeside
Resort as Director of Sales and
Marketing. She has been at the Manteo Resort Waterfront Hotel & Villas
in Kelowna as Director of Sales for the
past six years and was previously in sales at the Grand Okanagan
Resort and the Hilton Vancouver
Metrotown.
Steve
Migliara has been appointed Director of
Sales and Marketing at the Hamilton Park Hotel & Conference
Center in New Jersey. Migliara
previously served as Director of Sales and Marketing at the Founders Inn and
Spa in Virginia Beach. Prior to that,
he spent six years at the Ocean Place Conference Resort in New Jersey, where he was Associate Director of
Sales.
Stephanie
Davis has been named
Director of Brand Communications for the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining
Group in Las Vegas. She
was most recently in Public Relations at MGM Mirage for the past four
years.
Jennifer
Thorn transferred with Destination
Hotels and Resorts to the Stowe
Mountain Lodge as Director of Sales and
Marketing. She was most recently in the same position at Boston's hotel NINE
ZERO for the past two years. Thorn's
tenure in the Boston area included working at the Hyatt
Regency, Swissôtel, Wyndham as
well as the Four Seasons.
The Hotel Crescent
Court has appointed Adrian
Norbury Director of Marketing. He most
recently held the position of Director of Sales at the Hotel Crescent
Court and the Mansion on Turtle
Creek. He joined
Rosewood in 2002 as Regional
Director of Sales based in
London.
Lorin
Seidman has joined the Stowe
Mountain Lodge as Director of Public
Relations. She was most recently an Account Manager at Kortenhaus
Communications in Boston and was
previously the Public Relations Manager for the Ritz-Carlton New York,
Central Park.
Fawn
Heyer is now at the Stowe Mountain
Lodge as Senior Sales Manager. She
transferred from Boston's hotel NINE ZERO hotel where she was the Transient Sales Manager and was
previously in catering and conference services for the Ritz-Carlton
Boston.
Don Ehehalt has joined Las Vegas' Red Rock Resort and
Spa as National Sales Manager. He was
most recently at the Venetian as
Associate Casino Host, following seven years with Four
Seasons in Los Angeles, Carlsbad, Santa
Barbara and Palm Beach.
Larry
Riordan has left the Peninsula
Chicago after six years as Director of
Human Resources. He is now the Corporate Director of Human Resources for
Cenitare Restaurants, a new joined
venture that includes Chefs Rick Tramonto and Gale Gand as well as Richard Melman of Lettuce Entertain You.
Caitlin Doyle has been
appointed Human Resources Manager for Destination Resorts'
Snowmass in Snowmass Village. She rejoins the hotel where she worked from
1997 to 2002. She originally joined the company after working in operations and
human resources for Marriott.
The Davidson Hotel
Company in Memphis has named Kristi
Goodrum Director of Reporting and
Compliance. She was previously Audit Manager with Memphis based Rhea &
Ivy Certified Public Accountants.
The Westin
Seattle has named Paul
DiNapoli Director of Rooms. He has
recently held management positions for several properties including the
Westin San Francisco Airport and
Westin Maui Resort and Spa. In
addition, he was previously the Director of Rooms at the Westin Santa
Clara and Director of Guest Services at
the Sheraton Boston.
Marcus Hotels and
Resorts has appointed Larry
Flam Director of Restaurant Operations.
Most recently he was Director of Operations for the N9ne
Group and was previously with
Lettuce Entertain You, Rain
Forest Café and
Kimpton for whom he was Director of
Midwest Restaurant Operations.
Jim Webster has joined the Mondrian Scottsdale as Banquet Manager. He was most recently at the
Phoenician and held similar
positions with Ritz-Carlton in
Rancho Mirage, San Francisco and Laguna Niguel.
Jeremy Lieb is now the Chef/Partner at Trois restaurant in Atlanta. He was previously the Executive
Chef at Le Cirque Las Vegas and also
toiled at Medici at the
Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas as
Restaurant Chef and as the Executive Sous Chef at The Mansion at the MGM
Grand.
Bruno
Giordano has been named Executive Chef
at Le Sport in St. Lucia. He was
previously the Executive Chef at the Bora Bora Lagoon Resort, the Hotel Monasterio del Cusco in Peru and, most recently, El
Encanto in Santa Barbara, all
Orient-Express properties.
Chris
Eddy has
joined Winvian in Connecticut as
Executive Chef. He had previously toiled at Alain Ducasse's Mix in Las Vegas and spent six
years with Daniel Boulud, both at
Daniel
and Café Boulud in New York and Palm
Beach.
Michael
Otsuka has been named Executive Chef at
The Rotunda at Neiman Marcus in San
Francisco. He was most recently the Executive Chef at the Lark Creek
Inn in Larkspur and previously oversaw
the kitchens at the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa.
Michael
Anthony has been named Executive Chef
at New York's Gramercy Tavern,
replacing Tom Colicchio. Anthony had
left his job as Executive Chef at Blue Hill at Stone Barns earlier this year with the intent of opening his own
restaurant.
Yanis
Laboureau has joined Cotton
House in Mustique as Assistant Food and
Beverage Manager. Since 2001 he had held various food and beverage management
positions at Le Méridien Bora Bora.
Philippe
Tosques has joined Prime
Steakhouse at the
Bellagio in Las Vegas as General
Manager. He had been in the same position at Fleur de Lys Las Vegas
following a stint as Director of
Operations for the Paul Bocuse Brasserie Group in Lyon.
Michael
Mina's soon to open
Stripsteak at the
Mandalay Bay has
appointed Tony Fisher
General Manager. He was most recently at BOA Steakhouse, also in Las Vegas.
Stéphane
Clasquin has joined
Ortolan in Los Angeles as Restaurant
Manager. He was most recently the Maitre d'Hotel and Restaurant Manager at
L'Orangerie. Clasquin had previously
overseen Linq, One
Pico at Shutters on the
Beach and Citronelle all in the Los Angeles area.
John Geng has joined Mix in Las Vegas as General Manager replacing John
Cunin who left in the spring to join
Wynn Las Vegas. Geng was most
recently the General Manager at Del Frisco Double Eagle
Steakhouse and previously the
Restaurant Manager at N9NE Steakhouse also in Las Vegas.
Mark
Gustella has accepted the General
Manager position at Michael Mina's
Nob Hill in the MGM
Grand taking over from Ari
Kastrati who will now work with the
Mina Group. Gustella was formerly
the Assistant General Manager of Sensi at the Bellagio.
Tim Wilson has been named Director of Beverage for the Wolfgang
Puck Fine Dining Group after holding
the same title with B.R. Guest.
After overseeing beverage operations at sixteen outlets for B.R. Guest including
their lone Las Vegas outlet, Fiamma at the MGM Grand, he will work with Master Sommelier Luis de
Santos to coordinate operations within
Wolfgang Puck's ten current fine-dining outlets around the
country.
Philippe Buttin
has joined Le
Bernardin as Head Sommelier. He was
most recently working with Chef/Owner Joël Antunes at his
namesake restaurant
in Atlanta as Head Sommelier, Beverage
Manager and Assistant Manager. Previously Buttin had been an Assistant Sommelier
at Mirabelle in
London.
Kelly McAuliffe is the new Wine Director at Mix in Las Vegas. He was most recently at the
Two-Michelin-Starred Restaurant Christian Etienne in Avignon where he held the distinction of being the
only US citizen to be a Sommelier of a Michelin-starred restaurant in France.
Previously, McAuliffe was a Sommelier at Restaurant Alain
Ducasse at the
Plaza-Athénée in Paris after serving
as Sommelier Trainee at his restaurant in Monte Carlo.
Hazel
Davis has joined the
Waldorf=Astoria as
Director of Housekeeping. She was most recently the Director of Housekeeping at
the Ritz-Carlton Washington D.C. Prior to this, she was the Director of
Housekeeping at the
Rob
Taylor rejoins Hyatt
Hotels as Front Office
Manager at the Hyatt Regency Cincinnati after a brief stint as the Corporate
Employee Development Manager at MasterCorp in Tennessee. He had previously served in
various managerial roles at the Hyatt Regency Lake Las Vegas from 1999 to 2003.
EUROPE
Hilton
International has appointed Robert
Stoddard Director of Development for
Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. For the past three years
Stoddard has worked throughout Russia and the CIS countries providing hotel
development advisory services. In addition, he established the hotel development
consulting services for Colliers International – Russia in 2003.
Bernard de
Villèle has joined Thistle
Hotels as Area General Manager
overseeing three hotels in London. He was most recently with Taj Hotels
Resorts and Palaces as Vice President
U.K. Operations and General Manager of the Crowne Plaza London St. James
Hotel and Suites and 51 Buckingham
Gate Luxury Suites and Apartments. De
Villèle had previously been the General Manager at La Samanna on St. Martin.
Rezidor
SAS Hospitality has appointed
Thorsten Kirschke as Senior Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer. Kirschke has worked for Rezidor SAS for
the past twelve years. His most recent position was Area Vice President Germany,
Austria, South East Europe, Switzerland, Italy and Poland.
Ian Hurst has been appointed by Taj
International to General Manager of
51 Buckingham Gate and the Crowne
Plaza London St. James. He joins the
property from two years at the Great Pacific Financial Group in China and previously helped launch the Pacific
International Hotel Shanghai. In
addition, he spent twenty-five years with Hilton
International. At Taj, he takes
over from Bernard de Villèle.
Stefano
Gegnacorsi is the new General Manager
of Rocco Forte's Hotel
Savoy in Florence taking over for
Davide Bertilaccio who is moving to
Geneva to assume the role of General Manager at Rocco Forte's Le
Richemond. Gegnacorsi had been General Manager at the Palazzo
Sasso on the Amalfi Coast for the last
five years and previously worked for Rocco Forte's Hotel de
Russie in Rome as Hotel
Manager.
Annette
Hammer has been appointed General
Manager of the Mövenpick Hotel Hamburg due to open in spring 2007. At her last appointment she
held the position of General Manager at the Best Western Queens
Hotel Hamburg and has held various
positions at the Forte Crest Hotel Hamburg and Grand Hotel Nuremberg.
PierLuigi
Torello has left Paris'
Ritz after eighteen years to become
the General Manager of the 50-room Hotel Normandy in Vernon, France. For the past three years of his Ritz
career, Torello was an Executive Assistant Manager.
Gilles
Gabel is
the new Executive Assistant Manager of the InterContinental
Budapest,
replacing Duncan Clements, who has left the company.
Gabel comes from the Millennium Seoul Hilton where he was the Executive
Assistant Manager after joining them in 2004 as the Director of Food and
Beverage. In addition, Gabel has been with InterContinental in Sharm el Sheikh,
Abidjan and Riyadh.
Kathrin
Wirth-Ueberschär will be in charge of
Marketing and Sales at the Mövenpick Hotel Hamburg due to open in spring 2007. Her most recent appointment
was at the Royal Méridien Hamburg,
where she was Director of Sales and Marketing for four
years.
The
InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hôtel has named Laurent Gabard Director of Sales and Marketing. For the past three
years, he had been with
The InterContinental Amstel
Amsterdam has appointed Elisa
Soregaroli Director of Sales. She
joined the hotel in November 2002 in the position of Sales Manager and in
January 2006 was promoted to Senior Sales Manager.
Cornell graduate Henrik
Mansson has joined Mövenpick Hotels
and Resorts as Senior Vice President
Human Resources, replacing Richard Oehler who has been named Senior Vice President Operational
Standards and Systems for the company. Mansson was most recently the Director of
Human Resources at Elior in the
United Kingdom and previously spent three years as Head of Human Resources and
Quality for the European hotels of the Le Méridien Group.
Alessandro
Morelli has accepted the position of
Executive Chef/Food and Beverage Director for the Hotel
Calamidoro near Pisa. He was most
recently with Bin Hendi
Enterprises in Dubai in the Hospitality
Division as Executive Chef-Development Manager.
ASIA AND THE
PACIFIC
Helmut Knipp
has been named Senior Vice President –
Development at Langham Hotels International. He was most recently the Managing Director of CCA
International Hong Kong and was
previously with Hilton Hotels where he held senior management positions in sales and
marketing, operations and finance.
Ian Coughlan has joined Wynn Macau as Director of Hotel Operations. For the past ten years, he has been with
the Peninsula Group as General
Manager of the Peninsula Hong Kong
and Peninsula Bangkok. He had
originally joined the company in 1996 as Hotel Manager at the Peninsula Hong
Kong. Coughlan has previously served as Executive Assistant Manager in charge of
Food and Beverage at the Oriental Singapore.
Michael
Koltes has transferred as General
Manager to the Swissôtel Tallnin in
China. He was most recently the Resident Manager at the Swissôtel
Dalian and previously the Director of
Food and Beverage at the Seoul Hilton.
Jeffrey van
Vorsselen has been promoted to General
Manager of the Langham Place Hotel, Mongkok, Hong Kong. He had joined Langham Place as Hotel Manager in July
2003.
Linie
Palacio has joined the
Swiss-Belhotel Borneo Samarinda as
General Manager. She was previously the General Manager of the Waterfront
Insular Hotel Davao, President/General
Manager of Home Meals Kitchens Corporation in the Philippines and General Manager at Nirwana
Gardens Resort,
Indonesia.
Jeffrey
Sussman has joined the Leela
Kempinski in Mumbai as General Manager.
Sussman was a long-time Ritz-Carlton
man whose tenure included stints as Executive Assistant Manager in charge of
Rooms Operations at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park and the Ritz-Carlton Osaka.
Anthony Ross has been appointed General Manager of the Indigo
Pearl in Phuket. He has held senior
management positions for the launch of three hotels - the Azur
Lodge in New Zealand, the Sunway
Lagoon Resort in Malaysia and the
Pan Pacific Hotel Gold Coast in
Australia.
Andrew
Mensforth has been named General
Manager of the Park Hyatt Goa Resort and Spa. He has been with Hyatt for sixteen years, most
recently at the Park Hyatt Tokyo as
Executive Assistant Manager.
After twenty-one years,
Betty Ozaki has left
Halekulani, where she was the
Director of Sales, to become a Regional Director for the Leading Hotels of
the World, handling Japan.
Accor has taken over the Baolong Hotel in Shanghai and rebranded it as the Grand Mercure
Baolong Hotel with Anthony
Mirza as General Manager. Mirza was
most recently in Seoul as the General Manager of the Novotel Ambassador
Doksan.
Richard
Cooke has transferred to the Pudong
Shangri-La in Shanghai as Hotel
Manager. He was most recently the Corporate Director of Food and Beverage for
the company. Cooke had originally joined Shangri-La in September 2000 as
Executive Assistant Manager in charge of Food and Beverage at the Shangri-La
Singapore.
T.W. Hughes has been named General Manager at the Amata Spring
Country Club in Thailand. A Cornell
graduate, he was most recently the Chief Operating Officer of the Pine Valley
Golf Resort and Country Club in Beijing and previously the General
Manager at the Haikou Meishi International Golf Resort in Seoul.
Robert
Fabiano has been appointed General
Manager of the Shanghai Marriott Hotel Hongqiao, taking over for Frank Tideman. Fabiano began his career with Marriott
International in 1972 at the Newton Marriott in Massachusetts and was most recently the General
Manager of the Cornhusker Marriott Hotel in Nebraska.
Akira Moreno has been appointed Resident Manager of the
Leela in Goa, which is operated
by GHM. He is taking over from
Helen Fox who was promoted to sister
property the Chedi Club at Tanah Gajah in Bali, as General Manager. Moreno, a Lausanne
graduate, was most recently the Hotel Manager at the Raleigh in Miami and previously served as Executive Assistant
Manager in charge of Food and Beverage at the Ritz-Carlton Washington
DC.
Patrick
Carabin has been appointed Resident
Manager of the Hanoi Daewoo Hotel in
Vietnam. He was most recently the Executive Assistant Manager Food and Beverage
at Le Méridien Amman In Jordan.
Christophe
Langlois has been appointed Resort
Manager of the One&Only Kanuhura, Maldives. For the past two years he had been at the Hotel
Meurice in Paris as the Hotel Manager
and was previously the Director of Operations at the Hotel Prince de
Galles following some years at the
Ritz Paris.
Warren
Martinez has been appointed Controller
at the Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu's
North Shore. He comes from the Irvine Marriott where he was the Assistant Controller. He also served as Assistant
Controller at the Fairmont Kea Lani.
Grégoire
Simonin has been appointed Group
Culinary Project Design Manager for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Group based in Hong Kong. He was
previously the Executive Chef at the Mandarin Oriental in Chiang Mai. Simonin also worked as Deputy Executive
Chef (and Acting Executive Chef) at Raffles Singapore.
Jens Corder
has transferred to the Shangri-La Singapore as Executive Assistant Manager/ Director of Food and
Beverage. He was most recently the Director of Food and Beverage at the
Shangri-La Kowloon.
Giorgio
Olivotti has been appointed Executive
Assistant Manager-Food and Beverage at the Ritz-Carlton Hong
Kong. He was most recently at the One&Only Le Saint
Géran on Mauritius, as Resident Manager
and previously held various food and beverage positions at Raffles The
Plaza and the Westin
Stamford, both in Singapore.
Philip
Knuepfer has transferred to the
Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi in
Chiang Mai as Food and Beverage Director, replacing Rodolphe Gay
who has left the company. Knuepfer was
most recently the Director of Food and Beverage at the Mandarin Oriental
Kuala Lumpur. His replacement in Kuala
Lumpur is Peter Davies who comes
from the Mandarin Oriental Macau.
The Fullerton
Singapore has appointed Oliver
Kreuzer as Director of Food and
Beverage. Kreuzer has previously worked as the Assistant Director of Food and
Beverage at the Four Seasons Maui
and Director of Food and Beverage at the Hotel Plaza-Athénée New York.
Hector Morales, Jr. has been promoted to Executive Chef at the Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu's North Shore. He was previously the Executive Sous Chef for Turtle Bay since 1996. Prior to this, he served as Executive Chef on the S.S. Independence and on the S.S. Constitution. He held the same position for American Hawaii Cruises.
Winston Suen has been appointed Director of Corporate Engineering
for Langham Hotels International.
His past experience includes working for Kerry Properties Development
Management, Hong Kong & Shanghai
Hotels and the Hong Kong Mass
Transit Railway Corporation.
Langham Place Hotel,
Mongkok, Hong Kong has promoted
Teresa Poon to Director of Sales and
Marketing. She joined the hotel opening team as Director of Sales in October
2003 from the Regal Airport Hotel
where she was Director of Sales.
The Hilton Maldives Resort
and Spa has appointed Sandrine
Boutin Director of Sales. Boutin
previously worked for Hilton International in Paris. Prior to that, she worked with
Nosylis and Group
Pauli, two French tour
operators.
Sherona
Shng has been appointed Director of
Communications at Langham Hotels International. She was most recently the Director of Public Relations
for the group after joining the Langham Place Hotel, Mongkok in 2003 as their Director of Communications.
Ainslie
Cheung has been appointed to oversee
the communications of the InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong
Kong. Cheung was previously the
Marketing Communications Manager at the Hyatt Regency Hong
Kong that closed at the end of
2005.
Winnie Tang has been promoted to Public Relations Manager for
Langham Hotels International. She
joined the company in 2005 as Assistant Public Relations Manager. Tang
previously worked in the Hong Kong Trade Development Council for five years.
The InterContinental Grand
Stanford has appointed Rhonda
Yung as Public Relations Manager. She
was most recently the founding Editor-in-Chief of ELLE Decoration Hong
Kong as well as the Executive Editor of
ELLE at the beginning of 2000.
Previously, Yung was the Area Communications Manager of Benetton Asia Pacific
Ltd/Fabrica Features.
Matt Coates has been named Executive Chef/Food and Beverage
Director at the soon-to-open Evason Hideaway Koh Yao Noi off the island of Phuket in Thailand. He was most
recently the Executive Chef at the Chedi Phuket and was previously at Cotton House.
Jason Oakley has joined the Peninsula Hong Kong as Executive Chef for Felix, taking over for Dee Ann Tsurumaki, who left after five years to return home to the United
States. Oakley was most recently the Chef de Cuisine at Alex at Wynn Las Vegas.
Jonathan Rose has been named Group Director of Spa for Langham Hotels International. His past experience includes working with Hyatt International and Hilton-owned LivingWell Health Clubs.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
Peter Tischmann,
Sr. is now the International
Hospitality Advisor to the Minister of Investment of Egypt in Cairo. He will
monitor the complete renovation of historically significant government-owned
'Historic Hotels of Egypt' of which
he will be the Chief Operating Officer. Tischmann is a former General Manager at
the Baltschug Kempinski in Moscow
and the Ciragan Palace Hotel in
Istanbul. In addition, he re-opened New York's St. Regis after its multi-million dollar renovation by ITT
Sheraton.
The Sheraton
Doha has
appointed Otto Kurzendorfer Deputy General Manager. He was
most recently the Executive Assistant Manager Food and Beverage at Le
Méridien Damascus and was previously the
Director of Food and Beverage at the Jebel Ali Golf Resort in Dubai and was later
promoted to General Manager to open the Bateaux Dubai.
Kamal Soubra has been named Executive Assistant Manager for
Bavaria Executive Suites Dubai. A
Lausanne graduate, Soubra spent two years at the Warwick
Geneva as Front Office Manager and
Revenue Manager. Before that he
worked for two years at the Gefinor Rotana Hotel in Beirut, and spent eight years with
Intercontinental in Europe and the
Middle East.
Romain Saada has been appointed Director of Revenue Management for
Shangri-La, based in Dubai. He was
most recently with Starwood Brussels Complex Hotels as Complex Revenue Manager and was previously with
Sofitel Hotels North America as
Internet Revenue Specialist and Market Analyst with the InterContinental
Dubai.
Oktay Ulker has joined the Venus Beach Hotel and
Residences in Cyprus as Rooms Division
Manager. He was most recently at the Jasmine Court Hotel and Casino
as the Front of the House Manager. Ulker previous postings have
been at the Kaya Ramada
Plaza in Istanbul, the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead and the Ritz-Carlton Istanbul.
InterContinental Hotels
Group/Dubai Festival City has appointed
Angel Magdalani as Director of Human
Resources, to oversee all three Dubai based properties – InterContinental
Dubai Festival City, Crowne Plaza
Dubai Festival City and
InterContinental Residence Suites Dubai Festival City. Magdalani's InterContinental career started at the
InterContinental Houston in
1985.
Jörg-Peter
Nödler has been appointed Executive
Chef for Bavaria Executive Suites Dubai. He was most recently at the One&Only
Mirage in Dubai and previously in the
kitchens at the Crowne Plaza
Shanghai,
Hayman Island in Australia and the
Beaufort in Singapore.
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