HEADS above the Rest® by Susana Parks and Benoit Gateau-Cumin The Newsletter of The Boutique Search Firm, a worldwide retained recruiting firm specializing in hospitality management. Global Update: Who’s where and doing what THE AMERICAS Bill Hornbuckle has been confirmed at MGM as Chief Executive Officer and President after serving as acting since March. […]
Continue ReadingTHE END OF THE EXPAT
In my day to day activity as a hospitality recruiter, I receive requests from two opposite groups of people: the “expats” who can’t wait to come home, and the “domestics” who cannot wait to go back to the expat life. What is an expat? An expat is usually someone who has started his/her career domestically […]
Continue ReadingAUGUST 2020 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by Susana Parks and Benoit Gateau-Cumin The Newsletter of The Boutique Search Firm, a worldwide retained recruiting firm specializing in hospitality management. Global Update: Who’s where and doing what THE AMERICAS The Four Seasons Atlanta has named Nancy Chacon General Manager, taking over from Yvette Thomas-Henry. Chacon has been with the […]
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Welcome back: we finally did it. The rest of the world (or, at least, the part worth visiting and conducting business with) is closing its borders to anyone proudly carrying a US Passport. What used to be a door opener and a cause for respect worldwide has become a scarlet letter. How we got from […]
Continue ReadingJUNE/JULY 2020 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by Susana Parks and Benoit Gateau-Cumin The Newsletter of The Boutique Search Firm, a worldwide retained recruiting firm specializing in hospitality management. Global Update: Who’s where and doing what THE AMERICAS Jay Caiafa has been promoted at InterContinental Hotels Group to Chief Operating Officer – The Americas. He has been […]
Continue ReadingWHO SHOULD STAY AND WHO SHOULD GO?
So here we are, and you have no choice but to cut your overhead to the bone. How are you going to do it? Sacrifice the young’ uns you have invested so much in and who are just about to give you a superb return on your investment? Just because they are at the bottom […]
Continue ReadingWHAT SHOULD WE BE DOING?
Napoleon used to say an army is guided by its stomach: and here we are running out of food. In the worst possible way. When every bit of available food is used, it is merely a famine. When thousands upon thousands of gallons of milk are being dumped, it is fodder for civil riots. Our […]
Continue ReadingMAY 2020 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by Susana Parks and Benoit Gateau-Cumin The Newsletter of The Boutique Search Firm, a worldwide retained recruiting firm specializing in hospitality management. Global Update: Who’s where and doing what THE AMERICAS The Radisson Hotel Group has named Jim Alderman Chief Executive Officer of The Americas, based in […]
Continue ReadingAPRIL 2020 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by Susana Parks and Benoit Gateau-Cumin The Newsletter of The Boutique Search Firm, a worldwide retained recruiting firm specializing in hospitality management. Global Update: Who’s where and doing what THE AMERICAS Clarence Tan has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Millennium & Copthorne Hotels. He was most recently with […]
Continue ReadingNOBODY ASKED FOR THE SPANISH INQUISITION
We will all survive. Unless we push our luck. William Paley’s Divine Watchmaker is clear on the subject: God may not exist, but something up there does, that cannot be controlled by mere humans. It does not matter that each and everyone of us think we have an immense IQ and are better than […]
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