Neil Palmer has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer at Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas

Six Senses has appointed Neil Palmer as Chief Operating Officer.

Neil Palmer

Neil has 37 years of international hospitality experience, most of which he spent with Starwood Hotels & Resorts. In his role as Senior Vice President Operations Asia Pacific, he developed the company's hotel portfolio and oversaw the pre-opening hotel pipeline within the region.

Following his 25-year tenure with Starwood, Neil became CEO and Co-owner of Per Aquum Retreats & Resorts, and in recent years worked as CEO of Elements HSC, a company he co-established specializing in global hospitality consulting and asset management.

"With his boundless experience, energy and integrity, Neil is an exciting new protagonist in the Six Senses story as we continue to unite our vision of hospitality and reconnection in our places and spaces," says Chief Executive Officer, Neil Jacobs.

A graduate of Westminster Hotel School in London and a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality UK, Neil spent his childhood between Kenya, New Zealand and Fiji.

Neil will be based in Singapore.

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IHG Hotels & Resorts is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good. With a family of 19 hotel brands and IHG One Rewards, one of the world's largest hotel loyalty programmes, IHG has over 6,000 open hotels in over 100 countries, and more than 1,900 in the development pipeline.