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Global Update: Who's where and doing what:
July
2006
THE
AMERICAS
Larry
Shupnick has been named
Senior Vice President, Development and Acquisitions at Interstate Hotels and
Resorts. A well-known
veteran of large-scale acquisitions, he previously served as Senior Vice
President, Development and Acquisitions, for MeriStar. Shupnick first joined Interstate in
1990, when he merged his company, Laral Hotels, with CapStar, now part of Interstate. At CapStar,
Shupnick attempted to develop a national chain of premium restaurants with Chef
Michel Richard.
Sunstone Hotel Investors
has promoted William
Wagner to Senior Vice President and
Chief Accounting Officer. He joined Sunstone in July 2004 as Vice President of
Accounting and was previously the Vice President of Accounting for the
Trizetto Group and spent eight years as
an auditor with Ernst & Young.
John
Vanderslice has joined Miraval, Life
in Balance as Chief Executive Officer.
He was most recently the President of Club Med's Americas region. At ClubMed, Vanderslice was
reporting to Philippe Bourguignon,
now the Vice Chairman of Revolution Resorts, of which Miraval is a part.
David
Rodriguez has been appointed Executive
Vice President, Human Resources for Marriott International succeeding Brendan Keegan who is retiring from the company. Since 2003, Rodriguez
held the position of Executive Vice President - Lodging Human Resources after
joining the company as Senior Vice President, Staffing & Development in
1998.
Auberge
Resorts has promoted Severino
Gomez to the position of Regional Vice
President for new development outside the United States. He will concurrently continue to serve as
General Manager at Esperanza. Prior
to joining Auberge Resorts, Gomez served as General Manager of the Paradise
Village Golf, Marina and Spa in Puerto
Vallarta.
Chris Van der
Baars has been promoted by
Interstate Hotels & Resorts to
Vice President, Development for the company's Condo-Hotels division. He
joined Interstate in 2000 as Manager of the Doubletree
Westshore in Tampa and was then
promoted to General Manager of the South Seas Resort in Captiva, Florida. Van Der Baars also briefly ran his
own Executive Search Firm.
Cornell graduate Michael
Rawson has been named General Manager
of the Hotel Sorrento in Seattle as
well as Chief Operating Officer of the Sequoia Syndicate, a Seattle investment and asset management company.
Since 1998, he had been with Hotels AB as Senior Vice President of Operations.
Bryan Austin has been appointed President of Resort Operations for
the Wingfield Nevada Group. He toiled six years with
Ritz-Carlton, most recently as an
Executive Assistant in charge of Food and Beverage at the Ritz-Carlton
Dearborn, after serving as Acting
General Manager at the Ritz-Carlton Cleveland and Executive Assistant Manager at the Ritz-Carlton
Laguna Niguel. Austin also spent ten
years with Four Seasons Resorts in
Hawaii, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.
Jens Grafe has been appointed Vice President and General Manager
of the Trump International Sonesta Beach Resort. From 1994 to 2003 he was the General Manager of
Turnberry Isle and previously the
President of Rafael Hotels.
Boutique hotelier Tim
Thuell will be joining The
Chanler in Newport, as General Manager
early August. Currently the General Manager of Meadowood, Thuell also spent seven years at the helm of the
exclusive Point at Saranac Lake,
following stints in some of Bermuda and the Caribbean's top small resorts. At
the Chanler, he takes over from Jeff David, now the Resort Manager at the Chatham Bars
Inn on Cape Cod.
Native Barbadian Andrew
Zephirin was named General Manager of
the Crane Resort and Residences, in
St. Philip. He previously spent seven years with Ritz-Carlton, most recently as General Manager of the
Ritz-Carlton Marina Del Rey.
Taking over for Andrew
Zephirin at the Ritz-Carlton Marina
Del Rey is Robert
Thomas, who transfers form the
almost-adjacent Marriott Marina Del Rey.
Ronan Hénaff will be the opening General Manager at New York's
Cipriani Club Residences. He was
most recently the Director of Food and Beverage at the
Carlyle. He also was the opening
Restaurant General Manager for Atelier at the Ritz-Carlton Central Park
South.
Jim Samuels has been appointed General Manager at the Laguna
Cliffs Marriott, taking over for Jeroen Gerrese who had run the hotel since 2001. Samuels was most
recently the Vice President of Operations for Dallas-based Headington
Hotels. He also toiled at the Shore
Club in Miami and the Mansion on
Turtle Creek as Hotel
Manager.
Jeroen Gerrese
has become a partner with Regent
Hospitality Services in Stockton. He
had been with Interstate Hotels and Resorts since 1998 at the Moscow Marriott Royal Hotel
and, most recently, as General Manager
of the Laguna Cliffs Marriott.
Michael Miner has
been named General Manager at the Westin Bonaventure replacing Brian Fitzgerald who left to become the General Manager of the Royal
Sonesta Boston. Miner was most recently
with the Kor Group, where he served
as Area General Manager for the Sheraton Gateway in Los Angeles and the Sheraton
Delfina in Santa Monica.
Jerry Gleason has
been appointed Managing Director of the West Baden Springs Hotel
in Indiana slated for reopening of June
2007. Most recently, Gleason was an Area Vice President of Operations for
Hilton Hotels and was previously a
Regional Vice President for Promus
and Doubletree.
Kanwaljeet
'Rikki' Boparai has been named General
Manager of the Bedford Springs Resort in Pennsylvania. He was most recently the Director of
Operations at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado.
James Edward
Douglas has been named General Manager
of the Pan Pacific Whistler Mountainside and the Pan Pacific Whistler Village
Centre replacing Tim
Morrison who will now be working for
the 2010 Winter Olympics. Douglas was most recently the General Manager of
the Coast Inn of the North in
Northern British Columbia.
Richard
Jardin has joined
L'Auberge Carmel as General
Manager. He was most recently the General Manager at the Inn at Dos
Brisas in Texas.
Jardin also served as the Food and Beverage Manager at Twin
Farms and at the
Willcox.
Brooks
Bradbury has been named General Manager
at Riverbend in Kohler, Wisconsin.
For the past three years he has been at the Quinnipiack Club in Connecticut.
Rodolfo Roth has
joined Mexico City's Hotel Marquis Reforma as General Manager. He was previously the General
Manager at the Hotel Melia and the
Camino Real.
At Miami's
Setai, Hansjoerg
Meier takes over from MS
Puri as General Manager. Puri continues
as Vice President for GHM Hotels. As
for Meier, he transfers from the Legian Bali, where he was the General Manager. He originally joined
GHM at the Datai in
Langkawi.
Ben
Trodd is transferring to the Four Seasons Los Angeles
as Hotel Manager from the same position at the Four Seasons Palo
Alto. He was previously at the Four Seasons Hampshire and the Four
Seasons Dublin in various positions. He replaces Rainer Stampfer who
leaves to be the opening General Manager at the Four Seasons Koh Samui in
Thailand, slated for opening January 2007.
Karim Chaia has been appointed Food and Beverage Director at
Discovery at Marigot Bay in St.
Lucia, scheduled to open in September. He was previously at the Royal
Monceau in Paris and had previously
done some openings for Alain Ducasse's SPOON at
the Byblos in Courchevel and in
Switzerland.
Philippe Torelli has been appointed Rooms Division Manager at
Discovery at Marigot Bay. He was
previously a Front Office Manager at Le Méridien Bora Bora and worked as an Assistant Manager at the Hotel
Meurice and as Front Desk Manager at
the Hotel Prince de Galles in
Paris.
Barbara Van der
Vliet is now the Club Services Manager
at the Bella Sera Tuscan Villas and Piazza in British Columbia. She was most recently with the
Picerne Group in San Juan Capistrano
and previously worked for Vulcan, Inc. overseeing Paul Allen's
interests as Director of Estate and Yacht Services.
David
Rosenberg has been appointed the Director of Operations for the Carmel
Valley Ranch Resort and Spa. He was previously the Rooms Executive at the
Park Hyatt San Francisco.
Jacob Ascher, currently Director of Operations at the British
Colonial Hilton, will take over as
General Manager, Hilton Tobago Golf & Spa Resort. He was previously in Israel as Director of Operations
at the Hilton Tel Aviv.
Cesar
Biggeri has been named Director of
Sales - Western Region, for
William
Becker returns to the Rio Hotel and
Casino in Las Vegas as Vice President
Food and Beverage. He was previously the Director of Culinary Operations at the
hotel before moving into the position of Area Director of Culinary Operations
overseeing the Rio, Bally's and
Paris Las Vegas.
Marcia Abel has been named Director of Human Resources for the
Northland Inn in Minnesota. She was
most recently the Director of Operational Support for the Doubletree Guest
Suites of Minneapolis and previously
served for six years at the property as the Director of Human
Resources.
Donna
Miklich has been appointed Director of
Human Resources at the Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference
Center, located on Long
Island. She was most recently the Assistant Director of Human Resources at
the Essex House and had worked eight
years for Starwood.
Dorian
Rommel has joined the St. Regis
Resort Monarch Beach as the Director of
Food and Beverage. He was most recently in London at the
Dorchester as Deputy Food and
Beverage Manager. Previously, he oversaw the restaurants at the
Pierre in New York and the
Waldorf=Astoria.
Thomas
Barretta is now at the Glen Cove
Mansion Hotel and Conference Center as
Director of Food and Beverage. He was most recently in the same position at
Oheka Castle Hotel and Estate and
was previously overseeing food and beverage at the Garden City
Hotel.
Jennifer
Wachter has relocated to
San Francisco as the Director of Special Events and Catering for
Guckenheimer, handling
all Special Events for such clients as LucasFilms at Skywalker Ranch. She previously supervised catering at
the Los Angeles Convention Center and the Pacific Design
Center.
Anthony
Keene is the Executive Chef at
Carmel Valley Ranch,
Frank
Ziegler has been named Executive Sous
Chef at the Peninsula Chicago. He
was most recently at the Delano in
Miami as the Senior Sous Chef. He had been a Main Kitchen Chef at the
Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne and the
Banquet Chef at the Mandarin Oriental Miami.
Anthony Cole
has joined the Chatham Bars Inn on
Cape Cod as Executive Chef. He had been with the Ritz-Carlton since 1994, most recently as the Executive Chef at the
Ritz-Carlton St. Louis.
Michael
Goodman has joined the Cuisinart
Resort in Anguilla as Executive Chef
taking over from Daniel Orr who left
the company and returned to New York. Goodman was most recently at the Napa
Restaurant at the Five-Star Madinat
Jumeirah in Dubai and previously put in
two years as the Executive Chef of Amandari in Bali.
Jasper
Schneider is now the Chef des Cuisines
at the Chatham Bars Inn. He was most recently the Executive Chef
at the Palms in Turks and Caicos
following six years at La Quinta Resort and Club.
Didier
Montarou has transferred as Executive
Chef from the InterContinetal Cleveland to the soon-to-open InterContinental
Boston. Montarou has previously been the
Executive Chef at InterContinental
hotels in Spain, Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil, England and his home country of
France.
Timothy
Keating has joined the
Biltmore in Coral Gables as
Executive Chef. Since 1997 he had been in the kitchens at the Four Seasons
Houston, a post he left in 2005 to take
a sabbatical.
Luis Pous has been appointed Executive Chef at Little Palm
Island. He was most recently the
Executive Sous Chef at the Mandarin Oriental Turnberry Isle Resort and
Club. He previously spent two years in a similar capacity at the
Plaza-Athénée in New
York.
Kyle Ketchum is leaving
the Lark in West Bloomfield where he was the Chef to join the Spiced
Pear at The Chanler in Newport, Rhode Island, as
Executive Chef. John Somerville, the Sous Chef since 1994, has been
promoted to the top post for Ketchum.
Christian
Clair left the Sofitel Water
Tower in Chicago where he served as
Executive Sous Chef to hold the same title at the Ritz-Carlton
Laguna Niguel.
Peter Tischmann, Jr.
has joined the Four Seasons
Wailea as Assistant Food and Beverage
Director. A Cornell graduate, he was most recently the Director of Food and
Beverage Administration at Wynn Las Vegas.
Elizabeth
Carrier has joined the Beverly
Hilton as Assistant Director of Food
and Beverage. She previously spent eighteen months at Wynn
Las Vegas first as General Manager of Tableau, then as General Manager of Daniel Boulud
Brasserie.
Fabien Riviere has
joined MIX in Las Vegas as
Restaurant Manager, taking over for Gilles
Kolakowski. He was most recently a
Food and Beverage Manager at the Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas and
previously served as Dining Room Manager at Aureole, also in the
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
Jane Tracey is now at the Equinox Resort and Spa as Executive Housekeeper. She was most recently in the
same position at the Mountain View Grand Resort in New Hamphsire.
Jeremy McCarthy
has joined Starwood Hotels and
Resorts as Director of Spa Development
and Operations. He was most recently the Spa Director at La
Costa in Carlsbad and previously worked
with Four Seasons for ten years in
various spa management positions.
EUROPE
After René
Lasserre, another legend of the
restaurant world has died. Ultra-suave and elegant restaurateur Claude
Terrail, the owner of La Tour
d'Argent (along with several other
lesser known eateries) has passed, at age 83. Terrail was known for the
trademark red carnation he wore in his lapel and the depth of his wine cellar,
possibly the richest in Paris.
Starwood Hotels &
Resorts has appointed Colin
Bennett to the newly created position
of Area Manager England. He joined ITT Sheraton in 1987 as Assistant Food and Beverage Manager at the
Sheraton Skyline and was most
recently the General Manager of Central London Hotels.
Sandals & Beaches
Resorts has named Tony
Cowles Managing Director, UK &
Europe, succeeding Bobby Stewart who
has held the position for five years. Cowles joins following eleven years as
General Manager, Europe, for Air Jamaica.
Richard
Schilling is now the General Manager of
the Hotel Martinez in Cannes,
filling the post left vacant by Sylvain Ercoli (now at London's Claridges). Schilling is a man of many travels whose General
Manager postings included the early days of the Sofitel Los
Angeles and the launch of the Park
Lane in
Jakarta.
Franck
Farneti has been appointed General
Manager at the Mas de Pierre in St.
Paul de Vence taking over from Oliver Pollard who is going to Dubai. Farneti was most recently the
General Manager at the Hotel Juana
in Juan Les Pins, and is a former Director of Sales and Marketing for
Boscolo and the Carlton
InterContinental in
Cannes.
Taking over from Franck
Farneti at the Hotel Juana
is Eric Dulac, formerly the General Manager of Les
Roches in Le
Lavandou.
Wolfgang
Wagner is now the General Manager at
the Radisson SAS Berlin. He was most
recently the Vice President Technical Services for
Franck
Boizot has joined the Nash Ville
Hotel in Geneva as Executive Assistant
Manager. He was most recently the Director of Sales and Marketing at the
Warwick, also in
Geneva.
Franco
Pedone is now with the Principe di
Savoia in Milan as Rooms Division
Manager. He was most recently the Front Office Manager at the Park Hyatt
Milan.
Robert
Singer has been named Director of Sales
for the Hotel de Rome in Berlin
scheduled to open in August. He was most recently the Director of Sales at the
Ku' Damm 101 Hotel.
Carole Tahar has joined Concorde Hotels as Director of Revenue and Yield Management. She spent
the last seven years with Méridien,
including five years at the company's London's
headquarters.
Vincent
Mackie has been names Corporate
Director of Human Resources for Concorde Hotels. Since 1999, he had been a Regional Director of Human
Resources for Hilton International,
responsible for five hotels in the Greater Paris Area.
ASIA AND THE
PACIFIC
Lausanne graduate Philippe
Caretti has transferred to the
Shangri-La Makati in Manila as
General Manager and Vice President. He has been with the company since 1993 at
posts in Taipei, Hong Kong and most recently as General Manager of the Pudong
Shangri-La in
Shanghai.
John
Rice has been appointed
General Manager of the Pudong Shangri-La, replacing Philippe
Caretti. This is the
third posting to China for Rice, who has been with Shangri-La for the last thirteen years. He comes
directly from Manila, where he had been the General Manager of the 632-room
Edsa
Shangri-La, since
December 2004.
Nils-Arne
Schroeder has been named General
Manager of the Hilton Namhae Golf & Spa Resort in Korea due to open in October. He was most recently
the Director of Business Development at the Hilton Kuala
Lumpur.
Christopher Stafford has
joined Anantara in the Maldives as opening General Manager. He joined
Anantara as General Manager of the Anantara Resort & Spa Hua Hin then
was placed in the position of Vice President and General Manager for Anantara
Resorts & Spas Thailand.
Rainer
Stampfer leaves the Four Seasons Los
Angeles to be the opening General
Manager at the Four Seasons Koh Samui in Thailand, slated for launch January 2007. In Los
Angeles, he is replaced by Ben Trodd.
Raj Rao has been named General Manager at the Uttaranchal
Ananda in the Himalayas. He was most
recently the Director of Food and Beverage at the Oberoi in Delhi. He also served at the Ritz-Carlton St.
Thomas and previously at the Four
Seasons Chicago.
Martin
Wessels has been
appointed Director of Sales at the Kabul Serena.
Frederick
MacLean is now the General Manager of
Bedarra Island. He was most recently
the Executive Assistant Manager at the Radisson New World in Shanghai and previously held a similar position at
the Radisson Plaza Resort Tahiti.
Jumeirah has named Francis Killory Vice President of Development Asia Pacific based in
Shanghai. A Cornell graduate, he previously served in senior development
positions with InterContinental,
Méridien and Carlson Asia
Pacific.
The Hilton Petaling
Jaya has appointed Markus
Kaliss Director of Business
Development. He was most recently the Revenue Manager for the Hilton Maldives
Resort & Spa.
Mike Wilkins has been appointed Director of Sales and Marketing at
the Turtle Bay Resort in
Hawaii. He was most recently a Senior Executive with the Centennial
Service Group in Atlanta.
Lionel
Richard has joined the spanking new
St. Regis Bora Bora as Director of
Food and Beverage. He was most
recently the Director of Restaurants for the Imperial in Delhi and previously served as Food and Beverage
Manager at the Lausanne Palace.
Fiona Milne has joined Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives as Executive Assistant Manager. She was
most recently the Deputy General Manager at Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands.
Gérard Agid has joined Ty Warner's Kona Village as Director of Food and Beverage. The opening General
Manager at the Madison in Memphis,
Agid also served as Director of Food and Beverage at the Grand
America in Salt Lake City. This is a
return to Hawaii for Agid who was the Food and Beverage Director and Executive
Assistant Manager at Halekulani from
1990-1999.
Philip
Knuepfer has transferred as Director of
Food and Beverage to the Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi in Chiang Mai. He was previously at the Mandarin
Oriental Kuala Lumpur and the Kahala
Mandarin Oriental.
Neeraj
Govil has moved to the
Brisbane Marriott as
Director of Food and Beverage. He was earlier the Food and Beverage Manager at
the Renaissance & Marriott Executive Apartments in Mumbai.
Kai Lermen has transferred to the Ritz-Carlton
Osaka as Executive Chef taking over for
Aloysius Bokhorst, who had opened
the hotel and will now launch the Ritz-Carlton Tokyo. Lermen was most recently the Executive Chef at the
Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach and opened
the Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia.
Patrick
Bolt has taken the
position of Director of Facilities at Hawaii's Turtle Bay
Resort. Most recently he
was the Assistant Chief Engineer for sister property Lansdowne
Resort, located in
Leesburg, Virginia.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
InterContinental has appointed Phil Kasselis as Vice President of Development, Middle East and
Africa. He has relocated to Dubai following six years with InterContinental,
based in Sydney as Director of Development for the Australia, New Zealand and
South Pacific region.
Cape Grace in Cape Town has named Nigel Pace as General Manager, taking over for Tony
Romer-Lee. His previous appointments
include senior management positions at both the
Cellars-Homeport in the Western Cape
and the Lautenberg. He was most
recently the General Manager of Operations for The Collection by Liz
McGrath.
Régis
Catoire is now the General Manager at
the Beau Rivage Resort in Mauritius.
He was most recently the General Manager at the Plaza Royale Hotel
in Beijing.
Frégate Island
Private in the Seychelles has appointed
Fritz and Jenny
Hannenberg as Joint Managing Directors.
Their most recent posting was at Jalousie Plantation on St Lucia as the General Manager and the Front of
House Manager. They replace Patrick Brizio, who has returned to the Caribbean to open Discovery
at Marigot Bay on St.
Lucia.
Guillaume
Brillatz has joined the Sands
Resort in Mauritius as General Manager.
He was most recently the General Manager at Pointe Vénus, also on Mauritius.
Frédéric
Vidal has been appointed General
Manager of the Maia Resort in the
Seychelles. Previous employers include the Thermes Marins de Monte
Carlo and Le Méridien
Bali.
Christine
Chevalaz is now in Mauritius as the
Resident Manager at the Beau Rivage Resort. She was
most recently the Executive Assistant Manager at the Bora Bora Pearl Beach
Resort, where her successor is
Xavier Bessou.
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Edited
by Benoit Gateau-Cumin, Lisa Leroy & Susana Parks
The Boutique Search
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