Desmond Taljaard

non executive Deputy Chair, L+R Hotels
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Biography

Desmond is Chief Operating Officer, Europe, for Starwood Capital Group (SCG), responsible for all asset management, and for growing SCG's asset base in Europe. Desmond joined SCG in November 2006 from Whitbread Group plc, where as Group Development Director he led all M & A, corporate development, real estate and international expansion activities of the diversified leisure group. Whilst at Whitbread he oversaw the £1 billion exit from its UK hotel-owning JV with Marriott International, and the signing of a development JV with Emirates Airlines to rollout budget hotels throughout the Gulf.

L+R Hotels owns and manages branded and independent hotels across the UK, Continental Europe, the US and the Caribbean.

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