Michael Young Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Harrow, Middlesex, Gb

Executive Director for fast growing hotel and hospitality company. We are a dedicated privately owned hospitality group using innovation and forward thinking to drive sustainable business growth and deliver long-term success. Our extensive portfolio includes hotels, properties and coffeehouses which are spread across the UK and Ireland.Currently building 5 fabulous new hotels in UK and Ireland with various international brand partners.Executive Director leading Finance, Operations, Construction, Sales and Marketing, Revenue Management and HR teams. Reporting to shareholders to drive business growth.

Watford, Hertfordshire, Gb

Key Responsibilities • Executive Director for Hotel, Food, Residential and Commercial Property development and investment company and family office, reporting to shareholders and managing Commercial, Finance, Legal, Operations, Construction and HR teams. • Lead commercial negotiations with business partners including banks, suppliers, landlords, tenants, UK Home Office intermediaries, central and local government and franchisors. • Lead banking relationships with all financial institution partners, arranging financing for acquisitions, refinancing, treasury management and managing internal and external reporting. • Lead Acquisition and Disposal transactions (Hotels, Property and Food group). • Lead and provide challenge to operational teams within the Hotel and Food divisions. • Lead Monthly and Quarterly reporting, annual budget planning and presentations at board. • Lead Head Office team hiring, performance management and employee relations.Key Achievements • Increased Revenue, EBITDA and liquidity to unprecedented levels. • Acquired new hotel and multiple franchised quick service delivery sites for business growth. • Arranged financing for acquisitions, arranging competitive refinancing terms for existing loan maturities and restructuring/amending existing loans to obtain concessions from partners. • Financing arranged has included traditional bank lending, joint venture debt, local authority grant funding and local authority interest free loan capital. • Arranged sales of non-core assets engaging with sector professional agents. • Negotiation of new leases to replace outgoing tenants and let void space and maximise returns through negotiations with existing tenants. • Ran brand selection process and negotiated new Franchisee Agreement with international hotel brand to include market leading commercial terms and key money contribution. • Implemented new processes for internal and external reporting.

London, London, Gb

Key Responsibilities• Skilled portfolio manager with 1st class credit stewardship, fostering and strengthening strong relationships across hotel and leisure sectors to deliver business growth. • Present to front office, risk and strategy executive teams. • Create and optimise broad target database of potential hotel clients in United Kingdom.• Attend and participate at sector conferences to broaden professional network. • Collaborate with product partner teams to constructively promote Santander's full product line. • Deliver new business proposals and annual reviews such as finalising new financing deals, reporting to credit/pricing committees, conducting legal/financial due diligence, and overseeing KYC processes. Key Achievements• Succeeded in originating over £1Bn of new, high quality lending opportunities.• Won internal awards for business development through cultivating deep relationships with sector owners and professionals.• Expanded loan book from 0 to 20 customers, with exposure of £200M and £5M annual income. • Passionate about and delivered role model behaviours in terms of team and people development.

London, Gb

Key Responsibilities• Originated new businesses within the hotel and leisure sectors through effective relationship management aimed at growing existing customer base in £2-30M turnover segment. • Managed a wide and diverse portfolio of businesses, including hotels, restaurants, travel companies, and care homes. • Sector specialist and top-performing manager within HBSC Commercial Banking.Key Achievements• Accomplished YOY income growth of 46% and optimised cross-selling by securing innovative deals with new and existing customers.• Accomplished strong presence in marketplace through extensive networking by organising sector conferences.• Sourced and explored debt opportunities worth over £300M.

Molesworth Street , Dublin 2, Ie

Key Responsibilities• Managed portfolio of mid/large cap corporate clients with combined lending exposure of £400M+, covering exposures in large syndicated and leveraged transactions with assets across number of key European cities, South America, and UK. • Gained strong sector insights by liaising with owners, operators, developers, bankers and intermediaries. • Supervised preparation of credit applications, financial modelling, and new business proposals. • Oversaw refinancing functions, waivers, heads of terms, credit grading, pricing models together with analyses of audited and management accounts. • Discovered new business opportunities within secondary debt markets in collaboration with syndications team. • Responded to quorum questions regarding existing customer reviews and additional funding requests.Key Achievements• Commended as Trusted Advisor and Core Banking Partner by Owners, CEO’s, FD’s, and Group Treasurers upon consistently delivering exceptional performance.• Served as credit committee quorum member on rotational basis with focus on devising and deploying new business proposals throughout the division.

Molesworth Street , Dublin 2, Ie

Corporate banking relationship management role focussing on small and mid cap corporates. Portfolio included residential and commercial property development/investment, hotels, pub co's, accident management services, education services and import/export companies.

London, Gb

Research Assistant for the team responsible for projecting inflation and GDP forecasts and compiling the quarterly inflation report.