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Jean-Gabriel Pérès graduated with an MBA from ESSEC and began his career at the Lagardère group and EADS, which he left fairly quickly to join Le Méridien. At Le Méridien he was the Group’s Vice President Development for Africa and the Middle East and then Managing Director for Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong. His knowledge of Asia led him to become Managing Director of a luxury goods company with branches in more than a dozen Asian countries. In 1999 he returned to the hotel industry when the founder of Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts makes him President and CEO of the group, which had only thirty or so properties in Europe and Egypt at the time. He has steered the company for fifteen years and is now close to bring it to the milestone figure of 100 hotels. He shares his thoughts on this period and the future with Hospitality-On.

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