Alain Debare is Partner and Head of Investments and Asset Management for HVS in the Middle East and Africa. He has more than 30 years of international experience in hotel operations, investment, development and asset management. He specialises in operator search and selection, hotel management agreement negotiations, strategic repositioning, turnaround situations and operational performance optimisation. Alain held senior management roles with Hilton before helping develop Action Hotels’ 15-hotel portfolio and supporting its IPO on the London Stock Exchange. He later managed real estate portfolios exceeding USD 1 billion at Equitativa. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Hotel Management from Institut Paul Bocuse–IGL Lyon and a certificate in Hospitality Investments and Asset Management from Cornell University.