Read the latest roundup of hotel industry hires and promotions in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

Sascha Hemmann, previously managing director at Rosewood Bermuda, has been named in the same position at the 98-room Rosewood Schloss Fuschl, due to open in Hof bei Salzburg, Austria, in 2024. Also joining the team as managing director is Juan Samsó, who will run the 358-room Rosewood Doha when it opens later in 2023.

James Smith has been promoted to hotel manager for both the 225-room Hyatt Regency London Stratford and 127-room Hyatt House London Stratford. He arrives from a role as operations manager, Hyatt Place London Heathrow Airport.

Charlotte Huxtable has been appointed business development manager at the DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol City Centre, coming to the hotel from a position of conference and events sales office manager at the 206-room hotel, which is operated by Focus Hotels Management.

Yazan Latif has been appointed general manager of the 281-room Marsa Malaz Kempinski, The Pearl, in Doha. He most recently was general manager at the Sharq Village & Spa, a Ritz-Carlton Hotel, also in the Qatari capital.

Sophie Volant has been promoted to hotel manager at the famed 131-room Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. Previously, she had roles at the hotel’s owning group, Oetker Collection, as sales director at both that hotel and the Château Saint-Martin & Spa in Vence, France, and, most recently, as hotel manager at its L’Apogée Courchevel in the French Alps.

Niccolò Consigli has been appointed general manager of the 52-room Pelham London, previously having such roles as general manager at the Millennium Mayfair Hotel. Also joining hotel owner Starhotels Collezione is J-J Pollak, who has been named general manager of the 50-room Gore London, arriving from Hazlitt Hotels’ Batty Langley’s hotel in Shoreditch, London.

Fahad Abdulrahim Kazim has been named CEO of United Arab Emirates-based Tetra Hospitality Investment, which owns and operates hotels in the Middle East and Africa, including those of Millennium Hotels and Resorts. He'll also serve as CEO of Millennium's Middle East and Africa portfolio, which has more than 50 hotels and 15,000 rooms.

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