February 11, 2015

Tom Flanagan has been appointed as Area Vice President Nordics at Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group

The Rezidor Hotel Group has announced Tom Flanagan as Area Vice President Nordics. He succeeds Thomas Engelhart who has resigned from his position. Tom Flanagan takes over responsibility for Rezidor’s portfolio of more than 60 hotels with 15,000 rooms in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland; effective 1st March 2015. Flanagan has been with Rezidor since 1999, most recently as Area Vice President Eastern Europe & Russia. In his new position he will be based in Rezidor’s Area Support Office in Stockholm and continue to report to Olivier Harnisch, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer. Tom Flanagan was born in Ireland. He holds a Diploma and B.A. Degree in Hotel Management from Galway Regional Technical College and Demontfort University Birmingham. His first positions with Rezidor were Service Manager at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Scandinavia Copenhagen and Front Office Manager at the Radisson Blu Hotel Beijing. In 2002 he became Hotel Operations Manager at The Diplomat Radisson Blu Hotel Manama – followed by positions as Hotel Manager of the Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg and as General Manager of the Radisson Blu Hotel Galway. In 2008 Tom Flanagan was appointed District Director Turkey, Azerbaijan & China, based in Istanbul; and since 2009 he has been working as Area Vice President Eastern Europe & Russia, based in Moscow.

Tom Flanagan is an alumnus of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology – Class of 1993.

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