Ian RydinCarlson Rezidor has appointed a Swedish manager to head the five-star Radisson Blu Hotel located in Nairobi’s Upper Hill district. The Brussels-based international hotels group has also made Kenya its regional hub. Ian Rydin will serve as general manager of the luxury Nairobi hotel, which opened in November 2015. Mr Rydin will also be Carlson Rezidor’s district director in charge of East Africa region, the Stockholm Stock Exchange-listed hotel chain said. He replaces the hotel’s founding manager Jens Brandin who left in December to take a similar job at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel in Stavanger, Norway. Mr Rydin, a career hotelier, will be tasked with growing Radisson Blu’s market share in Nairobi’s increasingly competitive hospitality market where new global hotel chains are setting up.