David ToddInterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has appointed David Todd as its new senior director, new hotels – IMEA. Todd previously worked for IHG both at the corporate office and at the company’s hotels in the Middle East. Prior to re-joining IHG, he served as vice president, operations – MEA at Millennium Hotels & Resorts. Based in Dubai, Todd will streamline and accelerate IHG’s new hotel opening process acting as a centre of excellence for the IMEA region. He will collaborate with various functions across the corporate offices in Dubai and Delhi as well as build on existing and new relationships with our owners and business partners to achieve successful hotel openings across the region. He will serve as a senior member of IHG’s new hotels leadership team, which aims to build and embed an end-to-end ‘best in class’ sustainable framework in AMEA. The new hotels team is designed to allow IHG to maintain solid relationships with owners through the design and construction phase while concurrently setting up the property for operational excellence and commercial success with IHG's tools and processes.