Magnus OlovsonA man with over two decades of luxury hospitality experience and an enthusiasm for employee development and relations has been appointed to the helm of the award-winning Sanchaya. Magnus Olovson comes to the 9.6-hectare beachfront property on Bintan Island after seven years in Cambodia’s Siem Reap. As a partner of both the Heritage Suites Hotel and Café IndoChine Restaurant, his responsibilities ranged from overseeing extensive training to full refurbishments and market repositioning. Swedish-born Olovson rose up the ranks as food and beverage director at Hotel Negresco in Nice, France, and Sheraton Oran Hotel & Towers in Algeria, before becoming general manager of the British Virgin Islands’ Peter Island Resort, serving clientele such as Robert de Niro, Luciano Pavarotti, David Bowie, Tony Blair and the Swedish royal family. He also managed the 2009 launch of Le Gray Hotel in Beirut.