Hotel Solutions Expands its Network of Hotel Consultants

• Petra Deuter is a tri-lingual cross-cultural, highly entrepreneurial sales & marketing consultant. Prior to establishing herself as a full time consultant, she had over 13 years of broad international corporate executive expertise in Europe, North and South America. Her corporate career includes successes with each of Accor Hospitality in Germany, Lufthansa Airlines in Europe and The Americas and Mamaison Hotels & Residences in Central and Eastern Europe. Thus she brings to her hotel clients a strong understanding of the international travel sector and trends. She is a passionate mentor to leaders of Sales & Marketing and has a strong track record of growing revenues through multiple channels in the travel and hotel industries. But her knowledge and skills extend well beyond Sales and Marketing – for three years she was Managing Director of Lufthansa's business in southern South America. Petra can be contacted at [email protected] and at +420 (774) 485 883 or +54 (911) 4083 7011.
  
  
• Sjannie Hulsman excels on strategic, planning, multilingual and hands-on project management assignments. Her recent experience is in the field of corporate strategy development, international expansion and medical tourism. An experienced strategy advisor and project leader, Sjannie is responsible for multifaceted strategic development tasks, amongst others: business growth, leadership development and general management process organization. Previously, Sjannie worked in corporate marketing and sales at the Castellana Inter*Continental Hotel in Madrid and Penta Hotels International in Frankfurt. Sjannie is a member of the Innovation Council of the Medical Tourism Association. Sjannie can be contacted at [email protected] and at +49 (2054) 875 5668
  
  
• Niall Murray specialises in large integrated resorts, hotels and casinos with a particular focus on strategic and operations development, performance optimisation, human resource management and pre-opening. Niall has over 20 years’ international operations development, human resource management and training and development experience having held progressive management and senior executive positions with: SJM, The Venetian and Sands in Macau; The Venetian and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas; Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, Omni and Sheraton Hotels in the US and Canada; and the Disneyland Resort in Paris. For the past four years, Niall’s work has included the pre-opening and operations development of Sociedade De Jogos De Macau’s (SJM) Grand Lisboa, Ponte 16, L’Arc and Oceanus Casinos. He has assisted SJM with the design and implementation of operational and human resources best practices to maintain its leading market position in Macau against fierce competition. Niall can be contacted at [email protected] and at +853 (2881) 1000
  
  
• Deirdre Renniers is an interior and environmental designer. Deirdre set up her own design studio in Singapore in 2001 and has since completed various hospitality, restaurant and residential projects. Working closely with her team, she is responsible for management and creative leadership in interior and environmental design. Deirdre’s creative experience in a variety of interior design disciplines, countries and cultures has enabled a philosophy of design integrity and cultural sensitivity. Her approach is multidisciplinary and covers all aspects of a project, from architecture and interior design to furniture, product, and graphic design, to ensure every touch point is considered and execution is completed to the tee. Deirdre’s career began following her interior design studies at the University of Johannesburg in 1988. In 1998, she set up her own practice and two years later, she relocated to Singapore to take up a position with renowned architect, Kerry Hill, where she had the opportunity to work on prestigious hospitality projects. Deirdre can be contacted at [email protected] and at +65 (6827) 9663.

Commenting on the new associates, Ian Graham said “I am proud that these four seasoned consultants have joined the network. Like all the other associates, each is passionate about hotels and resorts. More than ever Hotel Solutions is able a team together for clients that has all the different board room level of skills and knowledge that a client can need. We can put this team together quickly, because our clients are in a hurry. No other team will better understand the complexity of the client’s requirements quickly. All our associates provide consulting advice that will be in the form of actionable plans that are normally both strategic and operational. Clients can be assured that they will achieve more than they ever imagined possible. Our consultants dig deeper, dig wider, to better understand a client’s business; we respond with advice based on our research, experience, knowledge of leading edge technologies and processes, and global best practice to take the client’s business further than they would imagine. These four new associates share in full our values, reflect the diversity of the international hotel and resort industry, and on behalf of all of us I welcome them to the team.”