GRI Global Committee: Sustainable Hospitality (April Chapter)
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Laura
Laura Sancesario
Relationship Manager - GRI Real Estate - EuropeGRI Institute
With over 13 years of experience in an international company and with corporate events she was able to work with many levels of seniority, roles, departments, and transformation projects.
Discussion
GRI Global Committee
Sustainable Hospitality Chapter
Sustainable Hospitality Chapter
Alex
Andjel
VP Development
Virgin Hotels
Andrew
Miele
Head of Development, Americas
Proper Hotels
Arron
Taggart
Head of UK Investment
Direct Lending & Investment Iberia - Real Estate
Carmen
Ng
Director of Sustainability
Langham Hospitality Group
Catherine
Dolton
Chief Sustainability Officer
IHG InterContinental Hotels Group
Chris
Penn
Co-Founder
Ace Hotel
Cristina
García-Peri
Senior Partner Head of Strategy and Business Development
Azora
Daniel
Johansson
Director of Development and Acquisitions
Cheval
Emmanuel
Dissez
Head of Asset Management
Schroders
Emmanuel
Vallee
Business Development Director
NEOM
Eric
Jafari
Chief Executive Officer
AENDRE Limited
Frank
Croston
Founding Partner
Hamilton Hotel Partners
Jan
Hazelton
VP - Global Business & RE Development
Kerzner International
Jens
Blomdahl
Principal
KSL Capital Partners
John
Brennan
Chairman
Klarent Hospitality
Marc
Jongerius
Managing Director & Co-founder
Zoku
Marloes
Knippenberg
CEO
Kerten Hospitality
Paolo
Servado
Managing Director
Blackstone
Philip
Nell
Head of Real Return Assets
Metro Dynamics
Rainer
Stampfer
President - Hotel Operations, APAC
Four Seasons
Rami
Badr
Managing Director
Orion Capital Managers
Wesley
Paul
Executive Chairman & Founder
NextGEN
Discussion
Alex Andjel
VP DevelopmentVirgin Hotels
United Kingdom
With 17 years’ experience in Hospitality and Real Estate , Alex has accumulated a track record in the sector. Currently, Alex is responsible for leading the expansion of Virgin Hotels in EMEA with the first project being VH Edinburgh (opening summer 2021). Virgin Hotels expect to announce a further two to three properties in Europe this year. Prior to Virgin Hotels, Alex was SVP Development at YOTEL, and previously as SVP Development of Orient-Express Hotels Ltd (Belmond) where he managed more than $500 million of acquisition, financing and dispositions of non-core assets. He successfully helped the company transition to third party hotel management agreements with its first hotel being the Belmond Cadogan Hotel.
Andrew Miele
Head of Development, AmericasProper Hotels
USA
As Head of Development, Americas, based in Miami, Andrew has responsibility for growing the Six Senses portfolio of hotels, resorts, and spas across the Americas. He believes strongly in the pillars and values of the Six Senses brand, lives by them harmoniously, and applies them to shape how he looks at each new opportunity. As the world recalibrates the focus on well-being and sustainability will no doubt be amplified. Prior to joining Six Senses he spent over 12 years at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, were he oversaw and lead the growth and due diligence on a number of projects and openings internationally such as, Megeve, Bogota, Sao Paulo, Surf Club (Florida), Los Cabos, Montreal, Rio de Janeiro, and New Orleans.
Arron Taggart
Head of UK InvestmentDirect Lending & Investment Iberia - Real Estate
United Kingdom
Arron Taggart is the Head of UK Investment at Cheyne Capital, a leading alternative investment manager. With over 20 years of experience in real estate markets, he joined Cheyne in August 2012 to originate real estate loans in the UK and Northern Europe. He is responsible for originating, structuring, and executing real estate debt transactions, lending across the capital stack. His expertise includes developing complex funding structures for both development and investment projects. Prior to Cheyne, Arron was a Property Specialist and Partner at Clydesdale Bank, and held corporate finance positions at Bank of Scotland and Hitachi Capital.
Carmen Ng
Director of SustainabilityLangham Hospitality Group
Hong Kong
Carmen leads and drives the sustainability strategy within the Group. She is responsible for a diverse range of sustainability programmes including strategy and policies development, management system, capacity building, stakeholder engagement, communication and reporting. She also believes in sustainability is everyone’s responsibility and her role is implanting this concept like a DNA into every colleague in the company.
Catherine Dolton
Chief Sustainability OfficerIHG InterContinental Hotels Group
United Kingdom
Catherine Dolton serves as Chief Sustainability Officer at IHG - InterContinental Hotels Group, where she leads the company's global sustainability strategy and environmental initiatives. With extensive experience in corporate sustainability and hospitality operations, she oversees IHG's Journey to Tomorrow program, focusing on carbon reduction, responsible sourcing, and community impact across the hotel group's portfolio. Dolton drives strategic partnerships and innovative solutions to advance sustainable hospitality practices, positioning IHG as an industry leader in environmental stewardship and social responsibility within the global hotel sector.
Chris Penn
Co-FounderAce Hotel
United Kingdom
Chris is a square peg in a round hole. Or used to be. After a career spanning over 20 years in traditional hotels, he joined Ace Hotels to launch them in London. After an amazing journey with incredible people he decided to pursue his own dreams and visions to build hospitality that related to his own perspective and feelings on the world, the mind and humanity. Steel Hotels (still pre live real estate) and Birch are a product of the journey so far.
Cristina García-Peri
Senior Partner Head of Strategy and Business DevelopmentAzora
Spain
Cristina García-Peri is Senior Partner and Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for the Azora Group. Prior to joining Azora in 2011, she worked for 16 years in the investment- banking sector at both Merrill Lynch (2 years) and JP Morgan (14 years), where she held various positions across M&A and Equity Capital Markets, and for 10 year, she was Managing Director responsible for Corporate Equity Derivatives for EMEA as well as Equity Capital Markets for Spain and Portugal. Cristina holds a bachelor degree in Economics from ICADE (Spain) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (USA). Cristina is Board Member at Bankinter, a Spanish IBEX 35 banking institution, where she Chairs the Nominations and Sustainability Committee.
Daniel Johansson
Director of Development and AcquisitionsCheval
United Kingdom
Daniel Johansson serves as Director of Development and Acquisitions at Cheval Collection, driving the company's global expansion and portfolio growth across Luxury Serviced Apartments and Branded Residences. With over 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry, his expertise spans development strategy, hotel management agreements, branded residences and master planning hotel projects.
Emmanuel Dissez
Head of Asset ManagementSchroders
Belgium
Emmanuel Dissez is Co-Head of Asset Management for Schroders Hotels. Graduated from Ecole Hotelière de Lausanne and with an MBA from Henley Business School, Emmanuel has 30 years of hands-on experience in the hospitality industry in Europe and North Africa. Prior to joining Schroders 7 years ago, Emmanuel held the position of CEO of CDG Capital Real Estate, the hotels arm of the Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion of Morocco. Prior to this, he held senior positions in hotels Asset Management for leaders in the industry such as Orco Property Group, Vision Hospitality or Westmont. Emmanuel started his career in hotels operations with IHG and worked and lived in Switzerland, Germany, the UK, Czech Republic, Morocco and Belgium.
Emmanuel Vallee
Business Development DirectorNEOM
Saudi Arabia
Emmanuel Vallee is Director Business development hotels for NEOM (Giga project in North west of KSA: building the city of the future within the Kingdom Vision 2030) in KSA. MBA graduated from IMHI (ESSEC Business School in France) and Cornell University. Emmanuel has 30 years of hands-on experience in the hospitality industry in USA, Middle East, Europe and Africa.
Eric Jafari
Chief Executive OfficerAENDRE Limited
United Kingdom
Frank Croston
Founding PartnerHamilton Hotel Partners
United Kingdom
Frank Croston is one of the two founding Partners of Hamilton Hotel Partners. His career progression combines a unique blend of senior executive positions in operations, asset management and strategic advisory services. Prior to setting up Hamilton in 2004 Frank was President UK & Ireland, for IHG; Partner in charge of Hospitality Advisory for Arthur Andersen EMEA and Managing Director PKF. Hamilton recently completed a merger with Pyramid Hotel Group out of the US and the combined group now manages 140 hotels across the US and Europe with AUM in excess of $5bn.
Jan Hazelton
VP - Global Business & RE DevelopmentKerzner International
United Kingdom
Ms. Hazelton joined Kerzner International in 2017 and is responsible for the growth of the Atlantis and One & Only brands in Europe and the Americas. As a seasoned hotel investment and development executive, her experience includes all aspects of hotel investment including banking, asset management, finance, development, feasibility and investment analysis. She currently has a desire to influence new and existing hotel projects with best ESG practices.
Jens Blomdahl
PrincipalKSL Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Mr. Blomdahl joined KSL Capital Partners in July 2013. Previously, Mr. Blomdahl was an Analyst in the Gaming and Leisure Division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Mr. Blomdahl earned his B.S., summa cum laude, from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
John Brennan
ChairmanKlarent Hospitality
United Kingdom
John Brennan is Chairman of Klarent Hospitality and a strategic advisor on all the hospitality investments.
He is ranked by the Caterer as one of the most influential executives in the UK Hospitality Industry. He is a Fellow of the Irish Hospitality Institute and a frequent speaker at industry events.
Having worked in the hospitality industry for almost 40 years, John is an expert in the hospitality sector. He has a proven record of delivering enhanced business performance and substantial shareholder returns.
Marc Jongerius
Managing Director & Co-founderZoku
Netherlands
I am co-founder and managing director of Zoku, an award-winning hospitality brand that facilitates global living and working for independent traveling professionals. Recognised by Forbes as “one of the 25 coolest hotels in the world,” Zoku’s reinvented apartment-hotel concept in Amsterdam pioneered a new category for the hotel industry. In addition to my role at Zoku, I am a member of the advisory board of a large family office and part of the investment committee of a Mezzanine Investment Fund. I also act as a coach to start-ups, helping to determine the best business models and most effective strategies for talented entrepreneurs to pursue.
Marloes Knippenberg
CEOKerten Hospitality
Ireland
The award-winning CEO of Kerten Hospitality, Marloes Knippenberg, has established the organization as a disruptive, dynamic international hospitality group dedicated to the management of mixed-use lifestyle developments in key global destinations. Her journey in the hospitality field started with Hilton where Marloes held senior operational and commercial management positions for over a decade. At the helm of Kerten Hospitality, which she developed and launched with the backing of Kerten, Ireland-based investment vehicle, Marloes has grown the organization’s operational and pipeline portfolio from one brand in one country to 11 aspirational lifestyle-driven concepts in 35+ development projects across 3 continents.
Paolo Servado
Managing DirectorBlackstone
United Kingdom
Paolo Servado is a Managing Director in the Real Estate Group in London. Since joining Blackstone in 2011, Mr. Servado has been involved in analyzing real estate investment opportunities across various property types in both Europe and the United States. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Servado was an Analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York, where he focused on equity and debt investment opportunities on behalf of their real estate private equity group. Mr. Servado received a BS in Applied Math and Economics from Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Philip Nell
Head of Real Return AssetsMetro Dynamics
United Kingdom
Rainer Stampfer
President - Hotel Operations, APACFour Seasons
China
He holds a BS in Business Management/Tourism from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich. He began his career at Hyatt International with assignments in Hong Kong, Jakarta and Berlin. In 2001, he joined Four Seasons as Food&Beverage Director in Boston. Subsequent to a post as Hotel Manager at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles, he returned to Asia to assume his first General Manager’s role by opening the resort in Koh Samui, Thailand. In 2008, he was promoted to Regional VP, in Bangkok, overseeing the Thai hotel portfolio. He moved to Shanghai in 2011 to open Four Seasons Hotel Pudong while being responsible for a portfolio of Chinese & SE Asian hotels. Since 2016, he resides in Singapore and leads the company’s hotel operations for APAC.
Rami Badr
Managing DirectorOrion Capital Managers
United Kingdom
Rami is a Partner & MD of Orion located in London. Since joining Orion in 2002, he has been involved in acquisitions, asset mgmt and realizations for the Orion European RE Funds across Europe with a particular focus on larger corporate transactions, pan-European portfolios, debt acquisitions, restructurings, hotel & retail investments. This includes active involvement in investments such as Infracity in Stockholm, Puerto Venecia or Sotogrande in Spain, the equity participation in Société Foncière Lyonnaise or the debt acquisition & restructuring of the Spanish company Inmobiliara Colonial. Before joining Orion he was an associate at Arthur Andersen within the transaction support team, advising large corporations on their RE strategies.
Wesley Paul
Executive Chairman & FounderNextGEN
United Kingdom
Wesley Paul is the Executive Chairman and Founder of Gemin-i Analytics, where he spearheads the strategic vision and direction of the company. As founder, he has been instrumental in establishing Gemin-i Analytics, a firm focused on leveraging data and analytics to provide insights.
Arron Taggart
Head of UK InvestmentDirect Lending & Investment Iberia - Real Estate
United Kingdom
Arron Taggart is the Head of UK Investment at Cheyne Capital, a leading alternative investment manager. With over 20 years of experience in real estate markets, he joined Cheyne in August 2012 to originate real estate loans in the UK and Northern Europe. He is responsible for originating, structuring, and executing real estate debt transactions, lending across the capital stack. His expertise includes developing complex funding structures for both development and investment projects. Prior to Cheyne, Arron was a Property Specialist and Partner at Clydesdale Bank, and held corporate finance positions at Bank of Scotland and Hitachi Capital.
Gregor Bamert
Head of Real Estate DebtAviva Investors Pensions Property Fund
United Kingdom
Gregor is responsible for the origination of real estate finance transactions. Prior to joining Aviva Investors, Gregor spent 14 years at Barclays where he held a number of roles in both investment and corporate banking. He has worked on capital markets, financing and advisory transactions across Europe and South Africa. He has been active in real estate finance for over ten years, most recently as Managing Director of the London Real Estate team within Barclays Corporate. Gregor previously worked as a management consultant, specialising on the investment banking industry in both London and New York.
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