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Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

I am very excited to have joined leaf Hospitality as we open the DoubleTree by Hilton Sheffield City. Located at the prestigious and historic Bramall Lane Stadium, home of Sheffield United Football Club, DoubleTree by Hilton Sheffield City offers 155 guest rooms (eight accessible, three suites), meeting and event facilities for up to 250 delegates (including matchday hospitality packages) and a restaurant and bar providing a warm welcome to residents, visitors and football fans on matchdays.

Supported as an Interim General Manager across two properties within the group, one branded and one independent. Daily responsibilities in both sites included operational and commercial oversight, team development and mentoring. The focus on driving improvements and instilling standards to ensure quality and exceptional service delivery yielded positive results in commercial, quality, and guest satisfaction.

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Led the Francis Hotel Bath as part of a committed team of professionals and shared collective success transitioning this historic property to an independent hotel, developing new service and operating standards, installation of new systems, and repositioning of the hotel to a stronger position in the local market.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Project work including private property development and post lockdown relaunch for a UK based hotel group in need of an experienced operator/leader.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Working with Interstate Hotels and Resorts having successfully managed the pre-opening phase and now leading the team at Hotel Indigo Manchester - Victoria Station, a 187 bedroom boutique hotel with the 2 AA Rosette Mamucium Restaurant. The property has proven to be an immediate market leader delivering exceptional service and quality, delivering at top level IHG performance metrics and across numerous service measures.

Harrogate, United Kingdom

Led a passionate team as General Manager of a quality boutique hotel that has realised collective success in repositioning itself to a market leading property. Transition of team, coupled with a culture change, resulted in commitment of refurbishment to bedrooms which is to be followed by additional investment imminent in public areas and outlets. Development and retention of team in a very challenging local labour market has led to significant results including top employee engagement scores, business growth and repair of reputation in the community. Target driven management strategy of individual improvement with a great number of team members working on learning schemes led to success in taking the property from the lowest ranks of company performance to winning Hotel of the Year for the group.

Wyboston, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Joined privately owned family business to bring experience from a proven track record of quality, service and change management skills to 380 acre, multi-use site that included three hotels, extensive conference and training facilities, F&B outlets and golf, spa and leisure facilities supported by 300 team members across the estate.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Group leading results led to receiving the Most Improved Performance Hotel of the Year Award in acknowledgment of strategic success and growth in revenue, rate, bottom line delivery, guest service ratings and team satisfaction survey.

Leeds, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

San Francisco Bay Area

California

GRITS Hospitality, owning company responsible for various project start ups and re-starts including Popina Restaurant in Santa Rosa and Bruno's in San Francisco.

New Orleans, Louisiana Toronto, Canada San Juan, Puerto Rico

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