Nuno Sacramento Safestay, the luxury hostel owner and operator, has appointed Nuno Sacramento as chief operating officer, ahead of the brand’s planned European expansion. Nuno joins Safestay from facilities management and construction services company Carillion, where he was head of customer operations. Prior to this, he worked for Whitbread for 16 years in senior managerial roles, working with the company’s Premier Inn, Beefeater and Costa Coffee brands. Safestay’s portfolio includes hostels in London’s Elephant & Castle, York, London’s Holland Park and Edinburgh, and the company plans to expand to a European-wide network of hostels. Alongside executive chairman and founder of Safestay, Larry Lipman, Nuno will run the business and have operational control over the 1,526 bed hostel group.