François MaryFrançois Mary has been appointed new Regional Director for the Prague hotels of Vienna International Hotelmanagement AG (VI) effective 1 November. He will also assume the position of General Manager of the two 4-star hotels andel’s and angelo with a combined capacity of more than 750 beds. The 40-year-old Mary previously served as General Manager for VI in France for the past 8 years. The native of France served as General Manager of the Dream Castle Hotel Paris from VI’s takeover of the family resort in 2006. Under the previous management by Möwenpick, he had spent 1-1/2 years as Resident Manager at the hotel. With the takeover of the nearby 4-star Magic Circus Hotel in 2008, he became General Manager of both Disneyland® Paris Selected Hotels with a combined capacity of 800 rooms and a total of 550 employees. Mary was involved in the takeover of the two resorts by VI. His career has already taken him abroad more than once: after graduating from the Savoy School London, he gathered professional experience at The Connaught in London (a member of the Savoy Group and a Leading Hotel of the World), followed by F&B positions at La Plantation Sainte Marthe Hotel in the French Antilles, the Hotel du Louvre Paris (Concorde Group) and the Grand Hotel Kempinski in Geneva (at that time the Noga Hilton Hotel Geneva), before joining the Dream Castle Hotel Paris in 2004.