Johannes Brosemann has been appointed as Pre-opening Hotel Manager at 1 Hotel & Homes Melbourne

1 Hotel and Homes has recruited top local and international talent for its Melbourne-based leadership team, ahead of the March 2025 opening of its first Australian property, 1 Hotel & Homes Melbourne.

Johannes Brosemann

Johannes Brosemann joins as Hotel Manager, following five years as Executive Assistant Manager at Brisbane's renowned Calile Hotel. Brosemann has held senior management positions at Hilton, including two years as Director of Operations for Hilton Munich Airport and key managerial roles at Hilton Hotel Brisbane.

Libby Escolme takes up the role of Director of Marketing, bringing a wealth of experience from global and local roles for prestige brands across hotels, prop-tech, real estate, retail, services and FMCG. Escolme previously served as Global Vice President of InterContinental Hotels Group, Upscale Portfolio in London.

Elena Fragasso joins as Director of Sales at 1 Hotel and Homes Melbourne. Fragasso's hospitality and sales career spans 15 years with prestigious corporate and lifestyle brands, including as Director of Sales for the Park Hyatt Sydney, Sales Director for W-Union Square NY, USA; Director of Sales & Marketing for Sheraton Mirage Port Douglas, and two stints with Starwood Hotels and Resorts, both in Sydney and Los Angeles.

General Management Asia Pacific Australia Melbourne

As a mission-driven luxury lifestyle hotel brand inspired by nature, 1 Hotels cultivates the best of sustainable design and architecture, together with extraordinary comfort and an unrivaled level of service. With properties among some of the first to receive the prestigious MICHELIN Key distinction, 1 Hotels is inspired by a simple idea: those who travel the world should also care about it. It is, after all, 1 world.

Starwood Hotels, an affiliate of global private investment firm Starwood Capital Group, is a sustainable hotel brand management company that operates 1 Hotels, a nature-inspired lifestyle brand that launched in 2015 with properties in South Beach (Miami) and Manhattan and now includes Brooklyn Bridge (New York City), West Hollywood (Los Angeles), Sanya (China), Toronto, San Francisco, Nashville, the Hanalei Bay (Kauai) flagship property, the...