GENEVA, Switzerland —As Kempinski Hotels has restructured its Middle East & Africa region,
three seasoned hoteliers have been recently appointed as area general managers
to oversee a number of the group‘s luxury hotels at the same time as keeping
the responsibility for their own hotels as general managers.
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“Given the ever-changing
landscape of our industry, this enhanced and very effective new operational
structure allows us to be as close as possible to our hotels and owners in the
region and gives us the right framework to remain a flexible and agile business
partner that adapts and responds effectively and rapidly to the demand,”
explains Bernold Schroeder, chief executive officer ad interim and chairman of
the
Kempinski Hotels Management Board.
Sébastien Mariette, the new area general manager Levant
started his journey with Kempinski in 2007 and occupied several leadership
roles within various parts of the world including cluster general manager at
the Kempinski Hotel Ishtar Dead Sea and Kempinski Hotel Aqaba in Jordan,
managing director at the Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore as well as area
general manager Egypt. Bulgaria, Djibouti, China, and the United Arab Emirates
were also stations in his Kempinski career over the past 14 years.
Sébastien holds a Master’s Degree as well as a Master of
Business Administration in International Hospitality Management which he passed
with distinction. As the area general manager Levant, he oversees from now on
the three Kempinski hotels in Jordan as well as the Kempinski Summerland Hotel
& Resort Beirut, Lebanon.
Coming from a successful hotelier
family, Karim Tayach brings a wealth
of experience and expertise to his new position. Based in Qatar, he will not
only look after Marsa Malaz Kempinski, The Pearl as well as Kempinski
Residences & Suites in Doha, but also after Kempinski Hotel Muscat in the
Sultanate of Oman as well as Kempinski Al Othman Hotel in Al Khobar,
Saudia-Arabia.
Karim has been in the luxury hotel
industry for more than 27 years and started his journey as a corporate
management trainee at the Hyatt Regency Makkah in Saudi Arabia. He then climbed
the career ladder from food & beverage roles within the Ritz Carlton Hotels
in Dubai, Doha, and Jakarta until he took it to the next level and became
general manager at the Ritz Carlton Jakarta Pacific Place in 2007 followed by
an assignment as general manager at the Ritz Carlton Bali in 2013.
Karim is a Tunisian-German national
who speaks fluent English, German, Italian, in addition to his Arabic and
French mother tongues.
A well-known expert in the luxury
hotel industry in Africa, Manish Nambiaris the new area general manager in charge of this region for Kempinski
Hotels. He joined the company in 2004 as the regional executive chef and held
several leadership roles such as the hotel manager in Kempinski Soma Bay in
Egypt or the Kempinski Hotel Delhi in India. As he progressed in his career
over the last 17 years, he was appointed cluster general manager of Kempinski
Kenya and subsequently the general manager of Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City,
Accra in Ghana, where he successfully positioned the hotel as the market
leader.
Manish completed his hospitality
studies at the Indian Institute of Hotel Management and European Executive MBA
from Reims Management School. Apart from his general manager position in Accra,
he now oversees in his new role Villa Rosa Kempinski Nairobi and Olare Mara
Kempinski Masai Mara in Kenya, Djibouti Palace Kempinski, Kempinski Seychelles
Resort as well as three hotels in Egypt, Kempinski Nile Hotel and Royal Maxim
Palace Kempinski in Cairo and Kempinski Hotel Soma Bay.
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