A truly international and highly experienced strategic business leader specialized in the global hospitality industry primarily in the luxury and upscale sector with a strong track record leading anything up to 1000+ room hotels, more than 3000 employees and multi hotel clusters as well as extensive corporate office experience.As a senior executive in operations, business development, distribution, revenue and change management, key strengths are:• Driving results through open honest dialogue and as a leader and coach, having highly empowered teams with a high level of responsibility and accountability on both the individual and team level.• Business and organisational transformation including major union negotiations.• Never afraid to challenge the status quo and a proven track record for innovative ways to optimise performance in terms of quality, financial and/or social engagement.• Develop, implement and communicate a compelling customer centric brand value proposition optimising the revenue performance.• Management and Franchise contract negotiations from “both sides of the table”.• Development of young talent through participative engagement, active coaching and mentoring.• Seamless adaptability and in-depth understanding of full spectre of the value proposition from select serve to luxury.• Highly experienced operating in a multicultural environment.• Excellent communicator equally comfortable 1 to 1 or to large audiences and with media.Outside of work I enjoy being in the nature and have completed several 100km walks in support of both Unicef and Oxfam.