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Global Update: Who's where and doing
what:
September 2006
THE
AMERICAS
Cornell graduate Luc Van
Wambeke, 51, untimely died August 13, while on a business trip to Santo Domingo. A resident of
St. Thomas since last year, he had previously been the Regional Controller, East
Coast, for the SportsClub Company
for five years. When the company broke
up last year, he joined his brother's business in the US Virgin Islands as Chief
Financial Officer. Prior to joining the SportsClub Company in 2002, Van Wambeke
had been the opening Financial Controller for what used to be the Regent Wall
Street. That followed an eleven-year
stint as Financial Controller with Ritz-Carlton in New York and
Philadelphia.
Luis
Fernandes has joined the Kor
Group in the newly created position of
Senior Vice President of Hotel Operations, responsible for the group's
properties on the East Coast and Mexico. He was previously the Chief Operating
Officer of Ty Warner's hotel group
after serving as Managing Director at Las Ventanas al Paraiso for two years.
Lausanne hotelier Paul
Zuest has joined the Chatham Bars
Inn as Managing Director. He had been
the Managing Director of Campton Place until it was sold to the Kor Hotel
Group. Zuest also served as Vice
President Operations at Broken Top
in Oregon and President of Jumby Bay
in Antigua. Over a nine-year stint with Rosewood, he was the General Manager of the Hotel
Bel-Air and the
Remington, now the St. Regis
Houston.
Paul
Ratchford has been named Managing
Director of the Greenbrier, taking
over from Ted Kleisner, who is
retiring after twenty-five years on the job. Since 2003, Ratchford had been the
General Manager of the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay. A confirmed resort specialist, he had also played a
role as Vice President of Resort Operations for the Pebble Beach
Company.
Texas hotelman Jeffrey
Trigger will, as the head of
Austin-based La Corsha Hospitality,
be leading the renaissance of the St. Anthony in San Antonio and the Stoneleigh in Dallas. Trigger, who made his name at the helm of the
Mansion on Turtle Creek and the
Adolphus, spent the past eight years
nurturing Austin's venerable Driskill back to its original splendor.
Florent
Gateau has returned to
Rosewood as Managing Director of
Acqualina, taking over from David
Kurland. He was most recently the
Resident Manager at the Setai in
Miami, a property he opened, following his initial seven years with Rosewood in
various positions at the Mansion on Turtle Creek and Las Ventanas al Paraiso.
Stephen
Bello has joined
RockResorts as Corporate Director of
Operations and is currently doing double duty as Interim General Manager
at La Posada de Santa Fe until a successor is found for Ken
Humes who has left the company. Bello
was most recently the President of the Classic Collection at RB Associates
in Washington, DC. He also served as
General Manager of the Madison, also
in Washington, DC and the Hotel Hershey. Bello also logged nine years with Ritz-Carlton
as General Manager in Philadelphia,
Rancho Mirage and Dubai.
Elizabeth
Mullins has added Vice President/Area
General Manager for Ritz-Carlton Hotels to her existing duties as General Manager of the
Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia. She had
previously been the General Manager at the Ritz-Carlton
Cleveland and the Ritz-Carlton
Rancho Mirage.
Joel
Freyberg will be leaving his position
of Hotel Manager at New York's Hotel Gansevoort to become the Executive Director of the prestigious
Waldorf Towers. Prior to joining the
Gansevoort two years ago, he was the Director of Housekeeping at the
Carlyle.
Victor
Barothy-Langer has been named General
Manager of the soon-to-reopen US Grant Hotel in San Diego, now a member of
Starwood's Luxury Collection. He was
most recently the Hotel Manager at the Westin St. Francis and also served as Hotel Manager at La
Costa.
Steve Contos, previously
the General Manager of the JW Marriott Orlando has been promoted to Vice
President and Managing Director of the 500-acre Grande Lakes Orlando that
includes the JW Marriott as well as the Ritz-Carlton. Peter
Kacheris replaces Contos as General
Manager. Kacheris was most recently the
Hotel Manager at the Orlando World Center Marriott.
Michel Garnier has been
appointed General Manager of Le Grand Lodge in Mont Tremblant, Québec. He
previously worked at the Chateau Cartier, the Crowne Plaza Ottawa-Hull, the Crowne
Plaza Isla Verde in Puerto Rico as well
as the Hotel Salam and Le Grand
Hotel de Bamako in West Africa.
Kevin
Osterhaus, formerly the General Manager
of Casa Casuarina in Miami Beach,
has been promoted by Destination Club Management to the company-wide role of Director of
Operations.
Enrich Linden
Hahn has been named General Manager at
the Lodge Kura Hulanda and Beach Club in Curacao. He was most recently with
Sandals/Beaches Resorts International as the Executive Assistant Manager at the French
Village at Beaches Turks & Calicos Resort & Spa.
Joachim
Ohlin has joined the Brazilian
Court in Palm Beach as General Manager.
He was most recently the Vice President for Resort Operations at Mirbeau
Companies as well as the General
Manager at the Mirbeau Inn and Spa.
Deborah Carr, the former General
Manager of the Brazilian Court, has left the company.
Morton
Valldejuli has been named General
Manager of the City Club at River Ranch replacing Elsa Lemoine who has relocated to Portland. Valldejuli was most
recently the Area General Manager for New Orleans Fine Hotels.
Michael
Hoe-Knudsen has transferred as General
Manager to the InterContinental Buenos Aires. A Cornell graduate, he was most recently the General
Manager of the Holiday Inn SunSpree Resort Montego Bay where he had been promoted from Resident Manager at the
InterContinental Rio.
Albert
Mertz rejoins the Mandarin Oriental
Miami as Hotel Manager after a brief
stint as the Chief Operating Officer at the Barish Group in New York. He had previously served in a similar role
at the hotel from 2000 to 2004, before being appointed General Manager at the
Mandarin Oriental Riviera Maya.
At the Hotel Carl
Gustav on St. Barthélémy, Olivier
Robert has been appointed General
Manager. Marie-Christine Albini had
been appointed to the post in March 2004.
Courtney Tai has been appointed Hotel Manager for the Sundy
House in Delray Beach. He was most
recently the General Manager of Fisher Island.
Jeffrey
Tucci has been named Vice President of
Hospitality for the Los Angeles County Fair. He was
most recently the General Manager of the former Loews Beverly Hills
(temporarily renamed the Tower Beverly Hills). Tucci had
originally joined Loews as Assistant General Manager at the Loews Coronado
Bay Resort. A Cornell graduate, Tucci also held various positions at the
Hotel Crescent Court, the Mansion on Turtle Creek and Auberge
du Soleil.
The Salish Lodge &
Spa has promoted Carl
Meyer to Resident Manager from the
position of Director of Rooms. Prior to rejoining Salish in June 2005, Meyer
served as Director of Operations at the Statler Hotel, operated by Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. He previously was the Director of Rooms at the Ojai
Valley Inn and Spa.
Jonathan
Brown has been named Director of
Finance at the Chatham Bars Inn on
Cape Cod. He was previously with the Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Group as Financial Controller at the
Mandarin Oriental Washington, DC and
the Mark Mandarin Oriental in New
York. In addition, Brown had been the Director of Finance at the Ritz-Carlton
Philadelphia.
Jason Pallen has joined the Princeton Club in New York as Director of Food and Beverage. He was
most recently in a similar position at the Millennium
Broadway following several years in
food and beverage management at the Waldorf=Astoria.
Till Grob has been appointed Director of Food and Beverage at
the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago. He was
previously the Director of Banquet Operations at the Fairmont
Chicago. Prior to that, Grob was
Assistant Director of Food and Beverage at the Mark Hopkins
InterContinental in San
Francisco.
Guillaume
Paupy has been promoted to Food and
Beverage Director at the Grand Hyatt Sao Paulo from Assistant Food and Beverage Director at the
Grand Hyatt Singapore.
Joseph Chin has been appointed Food and Beverage Director at the
Lodge Kura Hulanda and Beach Club.
He was most recently at Beaches Turks & Caicos as Assistant Food and Beverage Manager and previously
at the Maho Beach Resort & Casino on St. Maarten as Banquet/Convention
Manager.
In Mexico, Karisma Hotels
and Resorts has promoted Jeroen
Hanlo to Vice President of Operations
for Food and Beverage. Hanlo joined Karisma Resorts in September 2003 as Food
and Beverage Director. Previously,
he was Executive Assistant Manager and Food and Beverage Director for Allure
Resort and Director of Operations of
the Forchetta Group.
Gail Gerber has been appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for
the new InterContinental San Francisco currently under construction. She was most recently the
Director of Sales and Marketing at sister property the InterContinental Mark
Hopkins.
Ginger
Mahmoud has been named Director of
Sales for New York's Downtown Conference Center. She was most recently a Senior Sales Manager for
Millennium Hotels.
Jason Kycek has rejoined KSL Resorts as Corporate Director of Travel Industry Sales.
Originally joining the company as Director of Travel Industry Sales at the
Doral Golf Resort and Spa, he was
appointed Corporate Director of Travel Industry Sales in 2004. When La
Quinta left the fold of KSL to become
part of the Waldorf=Astoria Collection, Kysek stayed on for six months prior to rejoining
KSL.
The Ritz-Carlton Central
Park has appointed Peter
Coppola Director of Purchasing. He has
thirty years experience in the hospitality industry, including the
Fitzpatrick Hotel Group and
Princess Hotels International.
Kathaleen
Fairey has been named Purchasing
Manager with Rosewood Hotels based
out of their corporate office in Texas. She was previously the Spa Director at
Little Dix Bay in the British Virgin
Islands. Prior to that, she spent three years as Assistant Spa Director at the
Spa at the Crescent Hotel in
Dallas.
Fabien
Deguffroy will be taking over as Spa
Director at Little Dix Bay. He most
recently served as Assistant Spa Director at the Palms in Turks and Caicos, following a stint as part of the
Spa at the Boca Raton Resort and Club.
John Tesar joins the Mansion on Turtle Creek as Executive Chef. He was most recently the Executive
Chef of Rick Moonen's rm
Restaurant at the Mandalay Bay
Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. At
the Mansion, Tesar steps into the boots of Dean Fearing, who held the post for over twenty years prior to
leaving earlier hits year to join the developers of the future Ritz-Carlton
Dallas.
Brad
Manchester is leaving his position of
Executive Chef at the Renaissance Las Vegas to become the Executive Chef at Houston's soon-to-open
Hotel Zaza. Manchester had originally started at the Renaissance as
Executive Sous Chef, prior to being promoted to Executive
Chef.
Jonathan
Wright has joined Bradley
Ogden's Lark Creek
Inn as Executive Chef taking over for
Michael Otsuka. He was most recently
the Executive Chef and Director of Food and Beverage at the Hotel Conrad
Indianapolis. Wright, who came to the
United States in 2002 to spearhead culinary operations at the Windsor
Court, previously had his own
restaurant in England, La Gousse
d'Ail. He also was the Executive Chef
de Cuisine at Raymond Blanc's
Two-Michelin-Starred Manoir aux Quat' Saisons.
Jeffrey
Armstrong has been named Executive Chef
at Keswick Hall in Charlottesville,
with Orient-Express. He was most
recently the Executive Chef at Nick's Airport Inn in Hagerstown and previously served as Corporate Chef
of the Domaine Restaurant Group in
California, supervising operations of all of the group's restaurants, including
Dakota at the Roosevelt, Troquet
Restaurant, Meson G and Red Pearl Kitchen.
Milan Drager moved to the Mandarin Oriental San
Francisco as Executive Chef, taking
over from Ray Knight, who has left
the company. Drager was most recently the Executive Sous Chef at the Kahala
Resort (formerly the Kahala Mandarin
Oriental) in Honolulu, and previously
worked in the kitchens at the Ritz-Carlton Miami, the Four Seasons Newport Beach and the Valparaiso Palace Hotel in Mallorca.
Jeremy
Bearman has been appointed Executive
Chef at Lark Creek Steak in San
Francisco. He was most recently the Executive Sous Chef at L'Atelier de Joel
Robuchon at the MGM Grand Las
Vegas and previously the Restaurant
Executive Chef at the Medici Café and Terrace at the Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas. In addition, Bearman worked at Daniel
Boulud's Bistro
Moderne in New York working his way up
to Executive Sous Chef. He is a Cornell hotel school
graduate.
Jeffrey
Foresman has been named Executive Chef
of the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa. A nineteen-year veteran with Hyatt, he worked for
seven different properties including the Hyatt Regency Grand
Cypress, the Hyatt Regency
Waikoloa, the Hyatt Regency
Irvine, and the Grand Hyatt
Washington, DC.
The Loews Annapolis
Hotel has named Allison
Trinkle Executive Chef replacing
Andrew Saba who has been promoted to
Director of Food and Beverage. Trinkle was most recently the Executive Sous
Chef at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville. Saba previously served for two years
as Executive Chef at the Jefferson
in Washington, DC (formerly a Loews Hotel) before coming to
Annapolis.
Christopher
Lee has joined Gilt at the New York Palace as Chef de Cuisine. He was most recently the Executive
Chef at Striped Bass in Philadelphia
and also toiled in the kitchen at Oceana and Jean-Georges in New York. At Gilt, Lee takes over from avant-garde
British Chef Paul Liebrandt.
Pascal
Legrain has been appointed Executive
Chef at the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach in Cancun. A return to Mexico for Legrain, who was most
recently the Director of Food and Beverage at the Vila Sol Golf and Spa
Resort in Portugal, but previously ran
the kitchens of the Méridien Cancun
and at Las Ventanas Al Paraiso.
Jason
Prendergast has been appointed
Executive Sous Chef at Shutters on the Beach. Since 1997 he has been at the Four Seasons
Chicago, most recently as Executive
Sous Chef.
Babak Mohajer
Nasser has joined the Fairmont
Miramar Santa Monica as Executive Sous
Chef. He was most recently the Executive Sous Chef of the former Park
Hyatt San Francisco (newly re-branded
in 2006 as Le Méridien San Francisco).
Stefan
Outrequin has been promoted to Director
of Banquet Operations at the Drake in Chicago. For the past four years he has been the Food
and Beverage Manager at the hotel.
Gilles
Kolakowski has joined
Picasso at the
Bellagio as General Manager
replacing Mario Daniele who has
retired. Kolakowski was most recently a Restaurant Manager at Alain
Ducasse's Mix Las
Vegas. His replacement at Mix is
Fabien Rivière.
Michael Mina's soon to open Stripsteak at the Mandalay Bay has appointed Tony Fisher General Manager. He was most recently at BOA
Steakhouse.
Don Hart returns to Fiamma at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as General Manager. He was previously at
the restaurant as the Assistant General Manager before moving over to Michael
Mina's Seablue where he was the General Manager.
Nicolas
Rouet has been named Sommelier at the
Ryland Inn in New Jersey. He was
briefly at the Four Seasons Great Exuma following a thirty-month stint as Chef Sommelier at
Le Paradou in Washington, DC. Prior
to coming to the United States, Rouet worked as Sommelier at La Tour
d'Argent and
Lasserre both in
Paris.
EUROPE
Emmanuel Caux
has been promoted by
Starwood to Regional Vice President
for Northern France, responsible for six hotels in and around Paris. A long-time Méridien man, Caux was most recently the General Manager of the
Méridien Paris Etoile, as well as
Regional Director for Paris and Belgium.
Also with Starwood,
Marie-Paule Vande Velde will be the
re-opening General Manager of the Westin Paris (the former InterContinental Paris), moving from her position of cluster General Manager
of the three Starwood properties in
Brussels.
Xavier
Rugeroni, until now a Regional Director
for Méridien in Southern France and
Malta, becomes Starwood's Director
of Operations for Southern France (including Monaco).
JP Kavanagh has been named General Manager for the Sheraton
Grand Hotel & Spa, Edinburgh. He was most recently the Operations Manager at
the Westin Turnberry Resort and was
previously the Rooms Division Manager at the Westin Dublin and the General Manager at the Central
Hotel in Dublin.
Raoul
Gransier has been appointed General
Manager of the Hotel Bellevue in
Croatia. He was most recently the pre-opening General Manager at the
John Quero is the new General Manager of the Lace Market
Hotel in Nottingham. He was previously
the General Manager of the Hotel Rialto in Warsaw, the Resident Manager at the Hotel Bora
Bora and a member of the opening
management team at the Burj Al Arab.
Peter
Finnegan has been named Hotel Manager
at the Shelbourne in Dublin. He was
most recently the Director of Food and Beverage at the Fairmont
Southampton and Fairmont Hamilton
in Bermuda.
Marco Franck has been
appointed Resident Manager at the Athenaeum InterContinental in Athens.
He was most recently at the Shangri-La Singapore as Executive Assistant Manager in charge of Food and
Beverage and has previously overseen food and beverage at the Westin Kuala
Lumpur, Starwood Resorts Fiji
and Amangani.
Brigitte
Lallemand has been promoted by
Dolce
International to the position of
Vice President Sales for Europe. For the past three years, she had been the
Director of Sales and Marketing at the Dolce Chantilly, outside Paris.
At the soon to re-open
Shelbourne in Dublin, Joe
Mooney has been named Executive Chef.
Mooney, an American who assisted Michel Nischan in the opening of Heartbeat at the W New York, spent the past two years with Taj
International, as Executive Chef of
PURE, an organic concept set up by
Nischan at the Taj Land's End in
Bombay.
Jean-Luc
Reymond is the new Executive Chef at
Le Méridien
Montparnasse in Paris, taking over
from Patrice Trincali.
ASIA AND THE
PACIFIC
The Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Group has appointed Richard
Baker as Corporate Managing Director.
He was most recently a Regional Vice President of Operations for
Rosewood, responsible for the
Mansion on Turtle Creek and the
Crescent Court. Prior to joining
Rosewood in 2001, Baker had spent nine years with Four
Seasons.
Millennium &
Copthorne has promoted Michael
Sengol to Executive Vice President,
Asia Pacific. He was previously the Senior Vice President, Operations, Asia
Pacific.
Kamal Chaoui has been appointed Regional General Manager Resorts –
Southern Asia by InterContinental,
based at the InterContinental Bali,
of which he is the General Manager. As such, he takes over from Amadeo
Zarzosa, who has left the company and
moved to Dubai. Chaoui, who spent sixteen years with Hyatt
International, was most recently the
General Manager of the Banyan Tree Phuket.
Tim Williams has joined Minor International in Bangkok as Vice President, Organizational
Effectiveness. He was previously the regional Human Resources Director Asia
Pacific for Le Méridien Hotels and Resorts based in Hong Kong.
Luc Bollen has been named General Manager of the Hilton
Hefei in China. He began his career
with Hilton as the Executive Chef at the Hilton Antwerp and has been in various executive management positions
at the Hilton Sharm Dreams Resort
and the Hilton Al Ain, prior to
joining the Hilton Shanghai in 2004.
Djarot
Basuki has
been appointed General Manager of the Swiss-Belhotel Jayapura in Indonesia. He had
previously worked in Indonesia for Sheraton, Westin, Hyatt and
Nikko.
In addition, he was the Human Resources Manager for the Hotel Ciputra
Semarang,
Indonesia.
Christine
Hodder is the pre-opening General
Manager for the Amara in Singapore
due to open in 2007. She was most recently the General Manager at the
Milestone in London and previously
General Manager of The World at Residensea.
Richard Lyon has been named General Manager of the JW Marriott
Mumbai. He has been with
Marriott more than twenty-five years
and was most recently the General Manager of the Renaissance Chancery Court
in London.
Scott
Butcher has been appointed General
Manager of the Ramada Osaka. He was
previously Senior Vice President-Hotel Operations for Plaza Pacific Hotels
and Resorts based in
Singapore.
Edward
Snoeks has joined the Marco Polo
Prince in Hong Kong as General Manager.
He joined Marco Polo Hotels as Resident Manager at the Marco Polo Hong
Kong in late
2003.
Lausanne graduate Christophe
Lajus has been appointed General
Manager of the newly opened Crowne Plaza Fudan Shanghai. His most recent position was General Manager of the
Holiday Inn Resort Yalong Bay Sanya.
André
Joulian has been named General Manager
for the pre-opening office of the Skyway Landis Hotel
Shanghai. He was previously the General
Manager of Ritz Taipei, now the
Landis Hotel Taipei, a previous
President of the Landis Group and
with the Hilton Group.
Martijn Van Der
Valk is the new General Manager at
Baros Maldives. He was most recently consulting at the
Hotel School of the Hague following
a stint as General Manager of Carcosa Seri Negara and the Strand Yangon. In addition, he was with Hyatt
International for five years in London
and Riyadh.
Jean Fernand
Wasser has been appointed General
Manager of the Best Western Premier Seri Pacific Kuala Lumpur. Previously, Wasser owned and managed the Hotel
Arcantis Hexagone in Colmar, France for
six years. In the eighties and nineties he was the General Manager of the Pan
Pacific Singapore, the Mandarin Singapore and its sister property, the Hotel
Istana in Kuala
Lumpur.
Uday Rao has been named Hotel Manager for the Four Seasons
Mumbai due to open early 2007. He was
most recently the Director of Rooms at the Four Seasons
Singapore and previously at the Four
Seasons Maldives in a similar
capacity.
The InterContinental Grand
Stanford Hong Kong has promoted John
Drummond to Food and Beverage Director.
He joined the hotel from the InterContinental Regency Bahrain in 2004 as Executive Chef.
Audra Rohini
Arul has joined Le Méridien Nirwana
Golf & Spa Resort Bali as Director
of Sales and Marketing, replacing Narelle McDougall who left the company. Arul was most recently at the
Nexus Resort in Malaysia where she
was Director of Sales and Marketing.
Christina Miram
Purba has been promoted to head the
Sales and Marketing Department at the Four Seasons Koh Samui in Thailand. She was previously the Director of Sales
at the Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay.
Shangri-La has appointed Alan Darr as Director of Corporate Human Resources Services. He
was most recently the interim Human Resources Manager of Genworth
Financial in London and was previously
the Human Resources Manager for InterContinental Hotel
Group in its regional offices in the
United States and Europe.
Le Méridien
Tahiti has named Sébastien
Philizot Executive Chef. He was most recently at the
InterContinental Malta.
Philippe
Agnese has joined the Four Seasons
Bangkok as Executive Pastry Chef. He
was previously the Executive Pastry Chef with Ritz-Carlton in Singapore and Bahrain.
The Mandarin Oriental Hong
Kong has appointed Ooi Soon
Lok Chef de Cuisine for Man Wah and
Cantonese Functions. He previously worked at the G hotel in Malaysia, the Hotel Adlon
Berlin, the Ritz Carlton
Singapore and Raffles
in Singapore.
Martin
Cahill has joined the Mandarin
Oriental Hong Kong as Oyster Chef for
the Mandarin Grill Raw Bar. He was
most recently at the Pink Beach Club in Bermuda where he was a Sous Chef, the Park Hyatt
Sydney where he was a Chef de Partie
for the Oyster Bar. In addition, he
worked at the Dorchester and the
Savoy.
Eric Chee Chew Soong has joined the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong as Chef de Cuisine for the New Cafe restaurant. He was most recently at the Jumeirah Madinat Al Qasr in Dubai where he was Chef de Cuisine. Before this he was at the Blue at the Shangri-la Singapore and the Equinox Restaurant at the Stamford Swissô
tel.
The Mandarin Oriental Hong
Kong has named Angela
Esparza Pastry Artist/ Cake Specialist.
She joins from the Berkeley in
London where she was the Pastry Chef and previously the W Hotel
Seattle.
Norio Nomoto
has joined the Mandarin Oriental
Hong Kong from the
Sagano restaurant in Kuala Lumpur
where he was the Japanese Chef. Before this he was at the
Prince hotel in Kuala Lumpur as
Japanese Chef.
Philippe
Orrico joins the Mandarin Oriental
Hong Kong as Chef de Cuisine at
Pierre Gagnaire. He joins from
Sketch, Gagnaire's joint-venture in
London and was previously at Pierre Gagnaire Paris.
Sebastian
Noshe who joined the Mandarin
Oriental Hong Kong in July 2005 as
Senior Chef de Cuisine has been promoted to Executive Sous Chef.
Anthony and Kamala
Nayeli are the Spa Managers at the
newly opened Manea Spa at the
Bora Bora Pearl Resort. Previously,
they both worked on the Queen Mary 2
where she was a Guest Relations Manager at the Canyon Ranch
Spa and he was the Massage Department
Manager at the Spa.
MIDDLE EAST AND
AFRICA
Olivier Heuchenne
has been promoted by
Ritz-Carlton to General Manager of
the Ritz-Carlton Sharm El Sheikh, a
position to which Andrew Turner had
been appointed in the spring. Heuchenne joins from the Ritz-Carlton
Dubai, where he was the Hotel Manager
for the past year, after rejoining the company at the Hotel Arts
Barcelona in 2004. Save for a one-year
hiatus with Ian Schrager Hotels and
China Grill Management in London,
Heuchenne has been a Ritz-Carlton man since 1991.
Frédéric
Vincent has been assigned to take over
the project of the next international hotel for Lucien Barrière
Hotels in Marrakech. He was most
recently the pre-opening General Manager at Paris' Hotel Fouquet's
Barrière. He will be replaced by
Eric Boonstoppel who has been with
the group almost thirteen years with his most recent assignment as the General
Manager of the Majestic Barrière in
Cannes.
Veteran Spanish hotelier
Amadeo Zarzosa has resigned his post
as General Manager of the InterContinental Resort Bali and as Regional General Manager InterContinental
Resorts Southern Asia in order to
assume a new role at the helm of the Atlantis, The Palm,
Dubai. Zarzosa's twin-portfolio in
Indonesia will be assumed by Kamal Chaoui.
InterContinental Hotels
Group has promoted Thierry
Perrot as Area General Manager for
InterContinental Hotels Group Citystars, in Cairo. He moves into his new role from his
position as the General Manager of the InterContinental Citystars and started
with the group in 1981 at the InterContinental Geneva.
Henri Blin was named General Manager for Kempinski's Ciragan
Palace in Istanbul replacing Richard
Bayard, who has left the company. Blin
was most recently the General Manager of the Kempinski Hotel
Corvinus in Budapest where his
replacement will be Marcus van der Wal. Blin joined Kempinski after a long career with
InterContinental where his last
position before he retired from the company in 2003 was General Manager of the
former InterContinental Dubai.
Patrick
Mossu has been appointed Hotel Manager
at the Kempinski Ciragan Palace in
Istanbul. He has previously worked in various positions at the Mark Hopkins
InterContinental, the Hotel
Castellana InterContinental and the
Mayfair InterContinental.
InterContinental Hotels
Group has named Christian
Pertl Director of Sales and Marketing
for three upcoming properties at Dubai Festival City–the InterContinental, the Crowne Plaza and the InterContinental Residence and
Suites. His most recent position was as
Area Director of Sales and Marketing for Austrian and Slovakian hotels including
InterContinental, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn
brands.
InterContinental Hotels
Group has appointed Katerina
Fajgar as the new Director of Marketing
and Communications for the three upcoming properties at Dubai Festival City. She
was most recently the Public Relations and Communications Manager for the former
InterContinental Dubai.
Frank Heinen has been promoted to Regional Director of Procurement
for Four Seasons Hotels of Egypt. He
was most recently the Director of Food and Beverage at the Four Seasons Cairo
at Nile Plaza and previously oversaw
food and beverage at the Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh and the Hotel Vierjahreszetien in Hamburg.
The Four Seasons Hotel Cairo
at Nile Plaza has named Christophe
Gillino Executive Chef. He was most
recently the Executive Chef at Reid's Palace Hotel in Madeira and previously worked under Alain
Ducasse, Alain
Senderens, Manuel
Martinez and Christian
Willer.
The Fairmont Dubai has appointed Edward Kwon to Senior Executive Sous Chef. He recently moved from
the Sheraton Tianjin as Executive
Chef and previously worked at the W Seoul as Opening Executive Sous Chef. Edward worked for
Ritz-Carlton for eleven
years.
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