Read the latest roundup of hotel industry hires and promotions in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Cody Bradshaw
Bradshaw is the new group CEO at London & Regional Hotels. The firm’s three business units — Europe and the United Kingdom, the Americas and select-service hotel brand Atlas — will report to Bradshaw. For the last 13 years, Bradshaw worked at Starwood Capital Group, his last role there being as global head of hotel asset management. He was also on the firm’s investment committee.
Neil Kirk
Kirk has been named CEO for Europe and the U.K. at London & Regional Hotels. He has been at the firm for almost five years and has been promoted from the role of chief operating officer.
Yasmin Keen
Keen been appointed general manager of the 518-room Sofitel London Gatwick, which is managed by Arora Group. She arrives from the same role at another Accor-branded hotel, the Queens Hotel Cheltenham MGallery by Sofitel, which Keen helped transition from an independent property.
Julian Catzeflis
Catzeflis has been named as the director of food and drink, venues and partnerships at the 453-room London Hilton on Park Lane. Previously, he was senior restaurant operations manager at London department store Harrods.
Harald Feurstein
Feurstein has been promoted to area general manager, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, and general manager at the 340-room Saadiyat Rotana Resort & Villa, Abu Dhabi. His last position at United Arab Emirates-based Rotana was general manager of the Khalidiya Palace Rayhaan by Rotana, also in Abu Dhabi.
Christophe Thomas
Thomas has been named the new chief operating officer at boutique-hotel and members’-club brand Aethos, which has hotels in France, Italy and Portugal. Thomas’ previous role was as general manager at hotel Le Royal Morceau Raffles Paris.
Grégoire Bouffard
Bouffard has been promoted to general counsel at Louvre Hotel Group. He started at the French hotel firm in 2018 in the role of director of legal operations, and his last role before the promotion was as legal director.
James Perry
Perry is the new general manager of the 152-room Grand Hotel Eastbourne on the Sussex English Channel coast. He replaces Jonathan Webley, who has retired after 30 years at the helm. Perry previously was general manager, for more than a decade, at another English hotel, Ruchill Grange Hotel & Utopia Spa in Hextable, Kent.
John Wagner
Wagner has joined London-based Zeal Hotels as a non-executive director. He is the co-founder and former CEO of white-label hotel-management firm Cycas Hospitality. The firm is opening its first hotel, in Exeter, Devon, England, early next year.