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Jonathan Wigley, CEO
Jonathan has accumulated 24 years of experience in the hospitality industry, working for international hotel chains from Hilton, Omni Group of Hotels, Delta Grand Pacific Hotel to the Landmark Hotel Group. His previous engagement as Managing Director for InVision Hospitality Co. Ltd. was to help setting up the company with strong foundation for future business vision.
Prior to that he was Vice President of Operations for Minor International's hotel division landed him in many parts of the world, including Vietnam, Bali and Dubai. Under this capacity, he was responsible for establishing brand standards and enhancing revenue growth. Prior to this engagement, Jonathan was stationed in Thailand and assumed a role of Group General Manager for the three franchised Marriott Resorts & Spas as well as Anantara Resorts & Spas. Having spent more than 15 years in the region, he possesses a firm understanding of Asian traditions and business cultures.
Suratsawadee Sirikasem, VP Human Resources/Pre-opening/Operations
Suratsawadee (a.k.a. Anne), a 27-year hospitality veteran Anne has worked in a variety of disciplines across the operations spectrum. Her extensive ex
perience in hotels, resorts and serviced residences throughout Thailand has created a solid professional foundation. With great success in her roles as general manager of the Mayfair Marriott Executive Apartments and director of human resources for Bangkok Marriott Resort and Spa as well as her deep involvement in pre-opening process, training and developing in her previous role at Zinc InVision Hospitality Company prior to joining Absolute Hotel Services has made her a great asset for the company's future expansion.
Rene Balmer, VP Technical Services
A hospitality experience of over 26 years, Rene is known for his unrelenting creativity in operations. Most recently he served as general manager - operations of Lebua Hotels and Resorts, The Dome at State Tower where he looked after the entire F&B operations, engineering department as well as working on special projects for the hotel expansions in New Zealand. During his three years with the company, the hotel won many awards from Conde Nast Traveler USA for Top 80 tables in the World, The Art of Travel from The Ultimate Luxury Travel Book, Elite Traveler award, The Best Business hotel in Asia award from CNBC Asia and Travelers Choice award from Tripadvisor. Prior to that he was executive chef of the Bangkok Marriott Resort & Spa, leading a team of over 180 chefs for 10 restaurants including food catering for all Starbucks operations in Bangkok and increased food and beverage revenue to be ranked as the 2nd highest grossing food and beverage revenue producing Hotel in Bangkok. His other achievements also included creating new concepts and opening of the new restaurant when he worked at Sheraton Grande Laguna Phuket as executive chef. Rene came to Thailand in 1997 by joining The Landmark Bang kok as executive chef. Prior to that he has worked in many hotels in such international locale including China, Egypt, Germany and Switzerland.
Jean-matthieu Beroujon, Director of Operations
Jean-matthieu has a very strong hotel operations background with more than 11 years of experience with International Hotel chains. He has held several key management positions in different countries like France, England, French Polynesia, USA and Laos. Prior to joining Absolute Hotel Services Group he held a position of operations manager at Villa Maly Luang Prabang. His main roles are on the development of new operational initiatives for the brands as well as oversight and support of pre-opening properties. He also support the regional teams and operating properties on an on-going basis.
Atilla Erda, Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing
Atilla has a wide portfolio of experience in Sales and Marketing positions from various hotels include Santiburi Group, Le Meridien, The Unique Collection of Hotels & Resorts and Minor International. Prior to this position, he was Vice President Sales of Franklyn Hotels & Resorts which has 14 hotels under Franklyn brand and 89 hotels under Luxury Lifestyle hotels. He plays a major role in spearheading and steering the hotels and resorts in all markets and at the same time maximizing revenues for all hotels and resorts under management as well as increasing the profile of the brands.
Nopparat Pongwatanakulsiri (Klang), VP Marketing
A 19-year hospitality veteran, Klang bolsters Absolute Hotel Services with extensive knowledge in marketing, public relations, promotions, brand creation and collateral development, particularly for serviced residences, hotels and resorts. Highly intelligent and resourceful, she has been recognized for her talents throughout her career.
Klang served as Group Director of Marketing Communications responsible for both JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok and JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa, prior to her appointment as Group Director of Marketing Communications for all Minor International Hotels & Resorts. Prior to joining an exciting team of Absolute Hotel Services, Klang was VP Marketing Communications & PR for InVision Hospitality Co. Ltd.
Nicolas Ishkanian, Vice President Revenue and Distribution Management
Nicolas has many years of experience in revenue, sales and marketing from The Unique Collection of Hotels & Resorts as well as Le Meridien Group. He is responsible for maximizing room revenue and other related revenues of pre-opening and operating U Hotels & Resorts, Eastin Hotels & Residences and Eastin Easy properties on a sustainable platform through all segments and sources of room revenue for all regions under Absolute Hotel Services management. All properties can ensure the effectiveness of operations and management in all areas of revenue management through his supervision, suggestion and implementation.
Aekawee Chugkorn, Finance Director
Aekawee has almost 7 years of experience with Ernst & Young Office Ltd. as audit manager handled variety of industries including Royal Orchid Hotel (Thailand) Public Co. Ltd., Bangkok Phuket Hospital Co. Ltd., Big C Supercenter Public Co. Ltd., Royal Porcelain Public Co. Ltd., just to mention a few. Prior to joining Absolute Hotel Services Co. Ltd. he has taken up some consultant projects as accounting and finance management for hospitality companies in Thailand. A great asset to the company, due to his experience background, analytical skills and proactive approach.
John Westoby, Managing Director - South East Asia
A 24-year hospitality veteran, serving in every capacity from back-end support to top level management. Proven performance spanning several countries. John's experience with Marriott International has taken him from the UK to the UAE, from Lebanon to Thailand. Engagements with Starwood and Shangri-la, Asia Pacific's top international hotel brands, further highlight his impressive professional portfolio.
Prior to joining Absolute Hotel Services John served as VP Technical Services & Operations for InVision Hospitality Co. Ltd. and before that he was Director of Operations at the Bangkok Marriott Resort and Spa before moving to Minor International's Corporate Office in 2004 as Group Director of Operations. He was promoted to Vice President of Technical Services within two years.
Patrapee Karinchai, VP Finance - South East Asia
Patrapee has 6 years of experience in hospitality industry where he held an important position in hotel operations. His long years of service as an accountant and a chief accountant respectively at Four Seasons Resort in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai has provided him a solid background in business forecast, annual budget, prepare and review financial statement. Prior to his promotion as group hotel director of financial he was financial controller at U Chiang Mai and later at Eastin Hotel Makkasan Bangkok.
Sirintorn Varatorn, Director of Sales - South East Asia
Sirintorn brings with her a wealth of sale expertise and extensive experience in hospitality. Based in Bangkok Regional Sales and Marketing South East Asia Office, she plays a crucial role in leading the sales force in all segment for 9 hotels under the management of Absolute Hotel Services in South East Asia. Previously Sirintorn served many management positions at Minor International Hotel Group for over 9 years.
Wantanee Issaranuwat, Director of Marketing Communications - South East Asia
Wantanee has many years of experience and strong background in public relations and strategic communications in developing and implementation of public relations plans, activities and advertising campaigns for special projects, hotels and resorts. Prior to joining a team of Absolute Hotel Services' Regional Sales and Marketing Thailand she served as Director of Marketing Communications for Eastin Hotel Makkasan Bangkok and U Chiang Mai - hotels under the management of the company. Before that, she was a Public Relations Manager for Sofitel Centara Grand Bangkok. Wantanee graduated with a Master Degree of International Business from Southern New Hampshire University - USA.
Subodh Dharkar, Director of the Board - India
Subodh has pioneered finance and investment services for the hospitality sector in India for more than 20 years.
Sameer Dharkar, Director of the Board - India
Sameer has pioneered finance and investment services for the hospitality sector in India for more than 20 years.
Mark Heather, Managing Director - India
Mark Heather joined Absolute Hotel Services as group general manager overseeing hotel projects under Eastin Hotels & Residences brand. Prior to that he was most recently employed as General Manager of Anantara Golden Triangle Resort. He successfully repositioned the resort as one of the leading award winning luxury resorts in Thailand. Under Mark's leadership the resort also beat all its previous records in revenue, GOP retention and guest satisfaction. Prior to moving back to Thailand, Mark was a general manager at Harbour View Hotel in Vietnam where he upgraded all the products and services and for the first time brought profit to the owner (Minor International). Previously he opened two luxury boutique resorts in Southern Thailand namely Nakamanda in Krabi and La Flora Khao Lak. He was also general manager at Villa Santi Hotel and Resort in Luang Prabang, Laos. Before entering into the hospitality industry, he was a lecturer professor on International Hospitality for the Institute of the American Hotel & Motel Association and a program director for Mahidol University respectively. A total of six years in developing training programs for hospitality including human resources, sales, marketing, front office, food & beverage and promotion.
S. Shashidhar, VP Technical Services and Pre-openings - India
A hospitality business leader with a balanced exposure all areas of hotel operations for over 23 years. Shashidhar, for the last 4 years, has been active in project consulting, recruitment solutions and training. With more than 10 years as a general manager in various hotels in India and Africa, he has vast knowledge and experience with international brand value implementation such as Days Inn, Radisson Hotels and Regent International Hotels. His international training experience includes his assignments with Carlson Hospitality Worldwide (Chicago, Omaha and Washington D.C.) and Regent International Hotels (Hong Kong).
Shalil Suvarna, Director of Operations - India
Suvarna has over 16 years of experience in hotel operations in India. He was recently with Ramada as the general manager and prior to that he has worked with many other established international hotel chains including Meridien, The Regent and Radisson. He will assist with pre-opening and hotel conversions as well as implementing effective operating concepts to ensure the proper and smooth running of all operating properties by providing complete operational assistance to the executive teams of oeprational hotels.
Subhasis Sarkar, Director of Sales - India
Subhasis has gained more than 17 years of experience in sales and business development from The Orchid Hotel Mumbai, Jaypee Hotels Limited, The Park Hotels Group and Choice Hotoels International respectively. He was responsible for achieving the desired reveue targets as well as implementing innovative strategies for the hotels. Subhasis graduated with a bachelor degree in sociology and political science from North Bengal University. As Regional Director of Sales, Subhasis is responsible to overseeing the daily operations of the sales activities, setting up strategy to drive sales revenue and implementation based on process and standard procedure, managing existing clients as well as expanding clients base for both inbound and outbound. His responsibility will cover all the hotels and resorts under the management of Absolute Hotel Services India including branded U Hotels & Resorts, Eastin Hotels & Residences and Eastin Easy as well as all non branded hotels.
Namrata Kalyani, Director of Marketing Communications - India
Namrata has gained her experience in marketing, branding and distribution as a marketing manager at Dignity Foundation, deputy manager - business development at DBS Cholamandalam Wealth Management for Eastern India Region and client servicing at NextGen Communications. Namrata graduated with a diploma degree in public relations from BILAMS College. As Regional Director of Marketing Communications, Namrata is responsible for setting up the strategy and implementation of marketing communications, public relations and activities that are aligned with the corporate brands structure and distribution for each of the hotels and resorts under the management of Absolute Hotel Services India including branded U Hotels & Resorts, Eastin Hotels & Residences and Eastin Easy as well as all non branded hotels.
Tran Thi Hong, Office Manager - Indochina
Hong has six years of experience in administration for corporate firms as well as government relations. She started her career as general administrator assistant to manager at Astral Infotech Vietnam Limited after graduation of bachelor degree from Hanoi University of Foreign Studies. After two years she then joined Zamil Steel Vietnam as government relations officer followed by executive assistant to country manager at Universal Telecom Services Hanoi and executive secretary to CEO/CFO at Siemens Limited respectively. Her previous position prior to joining Absolute Hotel Services Indochina was office manager for Vinh Tan 3 Energy JSC for two years.
Nguyen Ngoc Dzung, Technical Services Manager - Indochina
Dzung has more than eight years of experience in concept design, technical drawing, architect and project management with many well-known companies in Vietnam namely SAI Associates, Archipel Joint Stock Company, Long Viet Construction & Investment Company Limited, Avant Architecture Company Limited and Zamil Steel Corporation. He has handled and involved in many projects such as Han Viet Tower, Quang Minh urban area, Quang Minh sport complex, Big C, Tuan Duc building and Tam Chuc Resort.
Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Human Resources Manager - Indochina
Ngan has over 14 years of experience in administrative and human resources with many well-known international companies in Vietnam such as Colliers International, Archetype Vietnam Limited, HT Mobile and Zamil Steel. Prior to joining Absolute Hotel Services, she was human resources manager at Openasia Group based in Hanoi. Ngan is responsible for recruitment, retention and human development as well as coordination and input in task force assistance of all pre-opening and operating properties in Indochina.
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