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Hired as general manager at the 50-room Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, London, which opens next spring. She has 18 years of experience at Mandarin, most recently as general manager of the Mandarin Oriental, New York.
Appointed chief commercial officer at Scandic Hotels. She will also be on the Stockholm-based hotel firm’s executive committee but leave its board of director.
Appointed property acquisitions manager at Whitbread PLC, the owner of the Premier Inn and Hub by Premier Inn brands. She arrives from Costa Coffee, the High Street coffee store brand, which used to be owned by Whitbread PLC.
Hired as general manager of the 60-room Selman Marrakech, Morocco. He has spent the past 10 years at Rosewood Group in senior roles at hotels in Hong Kong, Paris and Phnom Penh.
Hired as general manager of the 300-room Wembley Ark in Wembley, London, the brand’s first hotel.
Appointed, respectively, as vice president of operations for the Commonwealth of Independent States, and director of feasibility and planning, with responsibility for underwriting new hotels across Europe, at white-label hotel-management firm Aimbridge EMEA.
Named area general manager for the United Kingdom at Hong Kong-based hotel firm Dorsett Hospitality International. He previously was senior cluster general manager for the U.K. and Ireland managed portfolio at IHG Hotels & Resorts.
Announced as commercial director at the 87-room Dukes Kibdib. His previous experience includes roles at Corinthia Hotels & Resorts and the MGM Grand Las Vegas.
Hired as general manager at the 278-room Kempinski Hotel Amman, Jordan. He previously held the same role at the Shangri-La Al Husn Resort & Spa in Oman.
Appointed pre-opening general manager at the 198-room IntercityHotel Heidelberg, Germany, which is expected to debut next June.
Hired as general manager of the Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco, approximately 20 miles south of Siena, Italy. It is a return hotel for the Tuscan Marchi, whose recent roles have been in the U.S. and Middle East.
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