Michael Cooper has been appointed as http://ru.linkedin.com/pub/michael-cooper/25/6/ba8 at InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG)

Michael Cooper
Cooper takes on responsibility for IHG’s expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to moving to Africa, Cooper spent five years with IHG in Moscow where he had responsibility for growth across Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. During this period, IHG signed 15 hotels including five in St Petersburg, and the largest Holiday Inn hotel in the world, with 1,000 rooms, due to open in 2014 in the Crocus City development in Moscow. Cooper originally joined IHG in 1998. IHG currently has 20 hotels open and seven hotels in the pipeline in Sub-Saharan Africa including ten hotels open in South Africa, five hotels in Zimbabwe, one hotel in Zambia, two hotels in Kenya, one hotel in Ghana, one hotel in Tanzania, four hotels in the pipeline in Nigeria, one in the pipeline in Botswana, one in the pipeline in Angola and one in the pipeline in Senegal.
Sales & Marketing Africa South Africa Cape Town

IHG Hotels & Resorts is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good. With a family of 19 hotel brands and IHG One Rewards, one of the world's largest hotel loyalty programmes, IHG has over 6,000 open hotels in over 100 countries, and more than 1,900 in the development pipeline.