Mathieu Van Alphen has been appointed as General Manager at Beach Rotana Abu Dhabi

Mathieu Van Alphen
The new GM joins the Beach Rotana from his previous post as the opening GM for the flagship InterContinental Moscow, where he worked for the past three years. Van Alphen was also the GM at the InterContinental Budapest, the InterContinental Koln, and has held various posts throughout his career that has spanned more than 28 years across Europe. Van Alphen hails from the Netherlands, having studied hotel management at the Middelbare Hotehschool Heerlen. His early career started in accounting and finance, progressing into financial controller positions, before assuming the post of hotel manager at the InterContinental Frankfurt, and eventually taking over as general manager at the InterContinental Koln.
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Rotana Hotel Management Corporation (Rotana) was founded in 1992, by a partnership between two visionary thinkers, Nasser Al Nowais and Selim El Zyr, who were joined three years later by Nael Hashweh and Imad Elias. Operating as Rotana, it opened its first property, the Beach Rotana Abu Dhabi in 1993 and is today one of the leading hotel management companies within the Middle East and Africa.