February 10, 2015

Xavier Moulin has been appointed as General Manager at SLS LUX at Baha Mar

Born and raised in France, Xavier Moulin obtained his international hospitality management degree from Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (Switzerland). His nineteen-year hotel management career has taken him to the French Riviera, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, California and The Bahamas. Prior to creating and operating his own restaurant in Sonoma in 2006, Moulin held various management positions with companies such as Starwood (The St. Regis Los Angeles), Raffles (L'Ermitage Beverly-Hills), Sonoma Spa Resorts and Monte Carlo based Société des Bains de Mer. As General Manager with San Francisco’s Personality Hotels, Moulin led the 15-million dollar transformation and repositioning of Hotel Frank onto the luxury boutique market and subsequently managed Hotel Diva and Kensington Park Hotel on Union Square. Moulin joined, SBE, in September of 2010 as opening General Manager of The Redbury @ Hollywood and Vine. In the first year, Moulin and his team collected prestigious awards such as Conde Nast Traveler "Hot List" and Travel + Leisure "It List", in addition to bringing the property into seven months of 90% occupancy and record-breaking revenues. In his role as corporate Director of Operations, Moulin developed new projects including the SLS South Beach opening and contributed to the expansion of the company’s hotel brands, SLS Hotels and The Redbury. In 2012, Moulin, took over the helm of SBE’s flagship property, the SLS at Beverly Hills and drove the SBE owned/Starwood managed asset (The Luxury Collection) into its best results since opening. Thanks to a new operational vision and a re-built executive team, the hotel was awarded “Best Guest Experience Index” and “Lowest Worker’s Compensation Loss” within the global West Region in 2014. Subsequently, the team secured the highest employee satisfaction to date, peak overall productivity and profitability while recording the top regional production in both group and transient business that same year.

Xavier Moulin is an alumnus of EHL Hospitality Business School – Class of 2001.

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