In line with its growth strategy, EVENT Hotels has hired former Blackstone MD to join its senior ranks. Gabriel Petersen will join EVENT Hotels as Managing Director and Member of the Executive Board. Mr Petersen has spent the last 25 years in the hospitality and hotel real estate industry - overseeing Blackstone Real Estate hotel portfolio in Europe during the last decade. Mr Petersen studied Economics and has an MSc in Real Estate.

About EVENT Hotels

Event Hotels, headquartered in Cologne, operates over 60 business and city hotels at over 40 locations in Europe under the names of well-known international hotel brands. The Doubletree by Hilton Berlin Ku'damm is the fifth hotel in the operator's portfolio in the German capital, for example next to the Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz. Event Hotels are hosts from the heart and, as the leading white label hotel operator, not only manage hotels in the operative business, but also invest in real estate together with partners, work out potential and thus shape the hotel landscape for a temporary home.

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