Eick was previously employed at the Winston Hospitality Group in Raleigh, North Carolina. Over the past 14 years he was responsible for the oversight, design and construction of 30 hotels in 17 states.
Mike Seyle, WATG president and CEO, announced the appointment of Jonathan Wyman as director of development, North America. In his new role, Wyman will work closely with the firm’s senior leaders to build relationships and create new business opportunities throughout North America for the firm’s core service lines of architecture, interiors, planning, landscape, and strategy. Previously, Wyman was vice president of business development at ValleyCrest Companies. Prior to that, he was vice president and director of business development at SB Architects.
Mr. Harrison, a 28-year veteran of the company, will oversee the company’s global architecture and interior design, construction management, estimating, finance, procurement services, and corporate facilities in his new role. Most recently, he has served as Senior Vice President of Full Service Domestic Design and Project Management for the Architecture and Construction division. In this position, he has been responsible for the design and construction of new hotel products and concepts, conversions of existing lodging products to Marriott, JW Marriott, Renaissance, Edition and Autograph Collection brands, and ongoing renovations of existing full-service properties throughout the United States and Canada.
Based in the IHG head office in Denham, just outside London, he will report to Tom Seddon, Chief Marketing Officer. In this new role, Joe will be responsible for ensuring the seven IHG brands including Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Hotel Indigo remain unique and innovative, while delivering what guests need and want from their hotel stay.
In this role, she ensures consistent design quality for the brand, and also leads refinement and implementation of design standards and requirements for the brand’s new descriptor program. Prior to joining Best Western, Hulbert spent twelve years with Hilton Hotels Corporation, most recently serving as director of interior design for Latin America and the Caribbean. With Hilton, Hulbert oversaw design for Hilton’s 10 brands in the 43 countries that make up the Latin American region, working on projects such as the Hilton Iguazu Falls in Argentina, the Hilton Bogota, the Panama City Hilton, the Palmer House Hilton renovation, and focused-service properties such as the Hampton Inn in Chiapas, Mexico.
From Paris Fashion Week, W Hotels Worldwide, the hotel category buster and industry innovator, tonight celebrates an industry first, the appointment of international stylist and fashion authority Amanda Ross as the brand’s first ever Global Fashion Director. For more than 10 years, W has continually broken new ground through innovative and first-of-its-kind fashion initiatives and programs. As W Hotels continues to grow globally, on track to increase its footprint to more than 50 hotels by 2011, Ross will serve as a strategic fashion advisor to the brand, providing global insight and guidance for an integrated, cutting-edge approach to fashion. A respected industry veteran, Ross will provide an authentic point of view for W, fostering industry relationships and identifying partnerships and collaborations that will make W Hotels a credible player within the fashion industry. She will also work closely with W Hotels The Store, W’s twist on the traditional hotel gift shop, including Global Glam, a newly launched fashion and accessories collection created exclusively for W by established and emerging designers inspired by the design of W’s latest hotels (photo by Getty Images).
Woodhead has appointed French Architect and Interior Designer Meriem Hall to lead its growing Hospitality portfolio of projects in Singapore and Asia. Meriem brings to the team more than 20 years of international industry experience designing luxury hotels, resorts, residences and lifestyle collections from concept to completion.
In his new role, Jacobs will head a team in charge of setting the creative vision for Starwood’s luxury and design-driven brands, including W Hotels, Le Méridien, St. Regis and The Luxury Collection. Specifically, Jacobs will oversee the design studio that directs the interior creative concepts and executes all style guidelines for the four brands across Starwood’s leading global portfolio. He reports to Mike Tiedy, Senior Vice President Brand Design & Innovation. Jacobs brings to Starwood more than 20 years of design, brand-building and business expertise. Most recently he was a Principal and Design Director at Gensler, a global architecture, design and planning firm with 32 offices and almost 2,500 professionals in Asia, UK, and the Americas.
W Hotels Worldwide, the industry innovator, today announces the appointment of renowned international music expert Michaelangelo L’Acqua as W Hotels’ first ever Global Music Director. In this role, L’Acqua will serve as a strategic advisor for the W brand, strengthening W Hotels’ presence within the music community in new and exciting ways, including producing the soon to be released seventh edition W Hotels CD, attracting partnerships within the music industry, and identifying ways to further integrate music into the W guest experience globally. For more than 10 years, with the opening of the first W Hotel in New York City in 1998, W has continually broken new ground through innovative and first-of-their-kind music programs and partnerships. As W Hotels continues to grow globally, more than doubling its current portfolio of 33 hotels by 2011, the contemporary lifestyle brand has engaged L’Acqua to ensure this passion for entertainment is integrated in authentic and original ways, positively impacting the guest experience in its hotels worldwide.
Jumeirah Group, the Dubai-based luxury international hospitality management group and member of Dubai Holding, has announced today the internal promotion of Thatcher Brown to the new position of Vice President Brand Strategy and Management of the Jumeirah Group. This appointment becomes effective in January 2009.