Cycas Hospitality has appointed 5 operational and business hospitality consultants to assist helps its European growth plans.
Operational recruits
Michael Mason-Shaw joined Cycas in June as Normal Supervisor for the operator’s latest London property; Hyatt Place London City / East (opening March 2021). With over 20 years’ expertise opening and managing properties throughout the UK for Hilton, Marriott, Accor and Wyndham, Michael brings an in-depth information of the London lodge market.
Following Cycas’s first UK partnership with Accor, in Could Jonathan Bowen turned Normal Supervisor of the Ibis Bridgwater (opening January 2021). Jonathan’s mixture of 15 years’ hospitality expertise throughout the South West of England, in addition to a robust relationship with Accor, ensures he’s properly positioned to efficiently open Cycas’s first property within the area early subsequent yr.
Additionally becoming a member of its operational group is Petra Baer, who this September will develop into Normal Supervisor of Cycas’s first property in Belgium; the Residence Inn Brussels Airport (opening March 2021). Fluent in seven languages and with a robust background in lodge operations, Petra joins from Marriott Worldwide, the place she spent 22 years working throughout a variety of the group’s best-known manufacturers.
From September Philip Steiner will take up the Normal Supervisor place for Cycas’s upcoming Moxy and Residence Inn by Marriott double-decker lodge in Slough (opening April 2021). Since becoming a member of Cycas two years in the past as Director of Lodging & Serviced Residences, Philip has been instrumental in introducing new operational methods throughout its portfolio to assist the corporate’s European growth. In recognition of his lodge operations experience, in February 2020 he turned the first-ever winner of HSMAI Europe’s Younger Expertise of the 12 months Award.
Business recruits
In Could Cycas’s central lodge assist group was additional strengthened by the appointment of Martin Hird as Group Director of Gross sales. Martin joined from Interstate Inns & Resorts, the place he spent 5 years serving to form the gross sales operate and was answerable for 30 accommodations throughout the UK market. With 14 years’ expertise of offering strategic gross sales options throughout a various portfolio of manufacturers and markets, Martin experiences into Cycas’s Business Director, Neetu Mistry.
Wayne Androliakos, Chief Working Officer of Cycas Hospitality, stated: “Our enterprise is called after the Cycad palm; a plant prized for its resilience and adaptable nature, which permits it to proceed rising in even the hardest situations. While 2020 has been an unprecedented time for the hospitality business, Cycas stays centered on constructing and growing a pipeline of unbelievable expertise to match our thrilling European pipeline.
“We’re delighted to be joined by a few of the perfect individuals within the business. And, with Cycas set to open ten new accommodations over the approaching yr, we’re assured these appointments will assist guarantee we’re within the strongest place to maximise every lodge’s full potential.”
The recruitment drive follows the lodge administration firm’s appointment of 5 regional consultants throughout France and Germany earlier this summer season prematurely of the opening of Cycas’s first two French properties – a dual-branded Hyatt lodge by Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport – this autumn.
