HEADS above the Rest® by 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 DECEMBER 2015 THE AMERICAS Andrea Foster has been appointed Senior Vice President, Development, at Marcus Hotels & Resorts in Milwaukee. She was most […]
Continue ReadingNOVEMBER 2015 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by 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 NOVEMBER 2015 THE AMERICAS Hilton Hotels has promoted Ronen Nissenbaum to Vice President of Operations for Luxury Hotels, Americas. He was most recently […]
Continue ReadingTHE TIPPING POINT
Danny Meyer has made a resounding announcement that only a restaurateur of his level of credibility could get away with and be taken seriously for: gradually, and starting at the Michelin-starred Modern next month, all restaurants within the Union Square Hospitality Group will shun tipping. SHUN, ELIMINATE, NO MAS. Not hide it, not disguise it, […]
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HEADS above the Rest® by 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 SEPTEMBER 2015 THE AMERICAS Eric Danziger has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Trump Hotel Collection. He was most recently President and […]
Continue ReadingI HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO (OR WHY DO YOU THINK I DIDN’T CALL YOU ABOUT THE GIG?)
Dear Candidates: It may not have occurred to you that now that my hair has gone gray, I may have become a source of good advice. I’m no E.F. Hutton, yet, but when I speak, people (should) listen. Frequently, jobs are poison, some of them lethal. I am more likely to be aware of the […]
Continue ReadingAUGUST 2015 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by 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 AUGUST 2015 THE AMERICAS Peter Humig has been named opening General Manager at the Four Seasons New York Downtown. He was most recently […]
Continue ReadingWHY HIGH-COST TUITION CAN BE AN INCENTIVE
The leitmotiv of the twenty first (and before it, the twentieth) century is that a top-notch college education has become totally unaffordable except for the top 1% of our (let’s call a spade a spade) plutocracy. What happened to the notion of effort? To that of working and saving toward a college education? To that […]
Continue ReadingJULY 2015 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by 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 JULY 2015 THE AMERICAS Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group has named Elias Assaly Vice President, Operations, Managed Hotels, based in Minneapolis. He was most […]
Continue ReadingIT’S NOT THE FINE PRINT, BUT WHO SIGNED IT
Three times in the past two months, I received calls from hotel executives relating the most most damning experience: in one case, a position of General Manager for a major luxury hotel was very “sloppily” extended to two different candidates. Due to an embarrassing misunderstanding and communications breakdown between the property and the corporate office, […]
Continue ReadingJUNE 2015 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by 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 JUNE 2015 THE AMERICAS Cathy Ross has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer at Exclusive Resorts. She joined the company in 2003, most […]
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