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Global Leaders Check-In

CEOs share the challenges and opportunities of leadership in a recession

Eighteen months of global recession can feel like a painfully long time when each day’s results make for depressing reading and the longed for upturn is still out of reach. Eighteen months of global recession can however fly by when there are new efficiencies to create and implement, restructurings to execute, and fresh strategies to deliver. Eighteen months of global recession can provide challenges and opportunities alike for a hotel chief...

Chris Mumford
By Chris Mumford, Managing Director, AETHOS Consulting Group

  • Nakul Anand, Divisional Chief Executive Hotel Division ITC
  • Gamal Aziz, President and CEO MGM Hospitality
  • Liam Lambert, President Oberoi Hotels and Resorts
  • Gerald Lawless, Executive Chairman Jumeirah Group
  • Martin Rinck, President - Asia Pacific Hilton Worldwide

Performance and results may have been down, but the CEOs have been busy identifying new business opportunities, busy pushing their growth agenda, busy investing in talent, busy redefining their guest experiences, and busy believing in the future of the industry. Read the complete interview here.

About Christopher Mumford
Chris Mumford is Managing Director of HVS Executive Search in London and specializes in executive search and compensation consulting for clients in the hospitality industry throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. A regular speaker on hospitality related issues, Chris is a frequent contributor to a number of industry publications on executive selection, compensation trends, leadership and general Human Resources topics.

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Chris Mumford
Chris Mumford
Managing Director, AETHOS Consulting Group

Chris Mumford has over twenty years of hospitality related executive search and consulting experience gained in the EMEA and North America regions. Having studied and worked in Germany and Japan, Chris opened the US office of a London based hotel recruitment firm in the late 90's. In 2002 he joined a leading global executive search firm and returned to his native UK to establish the EMEA practice.

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HVS is the world's leading consulting and services organization focused on the hotel, restaurant, shared ownership, gaming, and leisure industries. Established in 1980, the company performs more than 2,000 assignments per year for virtually every major industry participant. HVS principals are regarded as the leading professionals in their respective regions of the globe.

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