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Cycas Hospitality Makes Three Senior Appointments to Leadership Team
Cycas Hospitality | March 6, 2024
Cycas Hospitality today announced three, senior appointments to further strengthen the hotel management company’s leadership team, as it continues its expansion across Europe. Keith Griffiths has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer and joins Cycas Hospitality following a series of senior leadership roles, including as CEO of Atlas and Starboard Hotels. Griffiths will lead the operational divisions across the UK & Ireland alongside Julia Harnischfeger recently appointed to oversee the operational direction of the continental European portfolio. Griffiths said: “Cycas is an outstanding company with a stunning portfolio of br...
Remington Hotels Promotes Keith Oltchick to Chief Development Officer
Remington Hotels | May 24, 2023
Dallas, TX — May 24, 2023 — Remington Hotels, a dynamic hotel management company that manages over 115 hotels, has elevated former Executive Vice President of Business Development Keith Oltchick to Chief Development Officer. In this elevated role, Keith will lead the execution of the overall business development vision, strategy, plans, and processes to increase revenue, expand markets and ensure Remington accomplishes financial objectives. “Keith is one of the most talented people I’ve had the pleasure of working with in my career,” said Remington Hotels CEO Sloan Dean. “He was the natural choice for chief development officer, a...
Deutsche Hospitality Appoints Marie-Noële Schwartzmann as Chief Development Officer
Deutsche Hospitality | April 29, 2022
Effective May 1, 2022, Marie-Noële Schwartzmann will become the new Chief Development Officer of Deutsche Hospitality. She succeeds Claus-Dieter Jandel who has decided at his own request to retire after more than 40 years with the company. "We are looking forward to Marie-Noële’s extensive know-how, her international experience and her passion for our industry. In her previous roles, she has successfully created high-value, owner facing platforms and systems beyond classic development boundaries. Her work will be essential for our ambition to grow and position Deutsche Hospitality and our brands as a high performance partner in all mar...
Accor Appoints Laure Morvan as Chief Development Officer for India, Middle East, Africa & Turkey Region
Accor | April 13, 2022
Accor, a world-leading augmented hospitality group with over 420 hotels across India, Middle East, Africa and Turkey, has appointed Laure Morvan as Chief Development Officer (CDO) to lead the development team driving the Group’s strategic expansion while consolidating its leading position in the region. Laure Morvan brings almost 20 years of experience and expertise in hotel development, marketing and project management in Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific. She relocated to Singapore in 2012 to drive the development efforts across Asia Pacific in the luxury and premium segments, leading up to her latest role as Vice President Developm...
Christophe Piffaretti Appointed Chief Development Officer, Kempinski Hotels S.A.
Kempinski Hotels | December 2, 2019
Geneva, 2 December 2019 – Kempinski Hotels S.A. has appointed Christophe Piffaretti as Chief Development Officer and Member of the Management Board. In this role, Christophe Piffaretti will be responsible for the expansion of the Kempinski portfolio by focusing on the company's footprint growth in current and new markets as well as supporting the real-estate development strategy. He will also oversee Technical Services & Design of new build and conversion hotel projects before the pre-opening phase. Christophe Piffaretti brings with him more than 25 years of luxury hotel, real estate and development experience in international mark...
NewcrestImage Names David Perel CIO and Caroline Lerner Perel CDO
July 11, 2019
NewcrestImage has launched an ambitious nationwide expansion program of $2 billion in growth by adding two veteran lodging and finance executives to its C-suite who have a proven record of raising substantial private equity funds and managing high-value, high-performance investment portfolios. Effective July 1, David Perel and Caroline Lerner Perel joined NewcrestImage as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and Chief Development Officer (CDO) respectively. They both report to Mehul Patel, Chairman and CEO of the company, and they both join the company’s executive team, which will now consist of eight people. Mr. and Ms. Perel come to Newcr...
BHMA Appoints Jens Reichert as First Chief Development Officer
BHMA | March 11, 2019
Bangkok, March 11, 2019 – BHMA Hotels and Resorts, an international hotel management company wholly owned by the ASX listed Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG), is pleased to announce the arrival of Jens Reichert as the company's first Chief Development Officer. An industry veteran with more than 30 years service, Jens brings the necessary managerial skills to drive the substantial growth BHMA is currently enjoying. As the company's Chief Development Officer, Jens will be tasked with setting up a focused business development team with the ultimate goal of growing the company's portfolio according to BHMA's global expansion plans. BH...
