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Michael Cooper has been appointed as http://ru.linkedin.com/pub/michael-cooper/25/6/ba8 at InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG)

Cooper takes on responsibility for IHG’s expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to moving to Africa, Cooper spent five years with IHG in Moscow where he had responsibility for growth across Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. During this period, IHG signed 15 hotels including five in St Petersburg, and the largest Holiday Inn hotel in the world, with 1,000 rooms, due to open in 2014 in the Crocus City development in Moscow. Cooper originally joined IHG in 1998.

Clive Bennett has been named Managing Director at One&Only Cape Town

Announcement was made DEC 1st 2010. An accomplished hotel executive, Bennett will be based in Cape Town and report directly to Alan Leibman, President and Managing Director of Kerzner International. Most recently, Bennett was Managing Director of Red Carnation Hotels South Africa, part of a global group of five star hotels and boutiques. Bennett originally joined Red Carnation Hotels as the General Manager of The Twelve Apostles Hotel in 2004. After just a few months, he was appointed Managing Director of Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve and Retreat, a Relais and Chateaux property in the Cederberg Mountains of the Western Cape. Two years later, after negotiating the purchase of The Oyster Box in Umhlanga, Clive was appointed Managing Director of the Red Carnation Hotel Collection in South Africa, which includes all three of these hotels. Prior to joining Red Carnation Hotels, Clive worked in Europe as the Managing Director of a specialized banqueting production business, and then as General Manager of the Annabelle Hotel in Cyprus.