Xavier Destribats, during the past seven years Chief Operations Officer, The Americas, moves back from Cuba to Geneva and takes over the European region in addition to The Americas. Timur Sentuerk, who lately oversaw Europe, the Middle East and Africa, is moving to Dubai to fully concentrate on the Middle East and Africa.
A British National, Stuart is a chartered accountant, a member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers and has a BA in Business Studies from Sheffield Hallam University.
More recently, in 2021, Jad Moukheiber associated with Banader Hotels Company BSC, Bahrain as General Manager where he has overseen the holding’s activities, budget and strategy while having board advisory and secretarial functions.
The new managing director at the world-famous Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin is called Karina Ansos and is the first woman ever to head the historic hotel at the Brandenburg Gate in the German capital as of mid-October.
The German native started with the luxury hotel brand in 2011 as Director of Sales & Marketing and was appointed General Manager of Kempinski Hotel Huizhou, China, in 2015.
Christoph Knichel is a seasoned hotelier with a career spanning 30 years in companies such as Hyatt, Sheraton, Dusit and Wanda, as well as in hotel consulting companies.
Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center announced Matthias Al-Amiry as the new Managing Director, who will lead the management and operation of the complex, including a 480-room hotel, six restaurants, 170 apartments, 138 office units and 29 showrooms.
Sentuerk joins Kempinski Hotels from his most recent role as Chief People Officer at Pure Data Centres in London, a private equity funded start-up.
Kempinski Hotels appoints Oliver Kuhn as General Manager of Kempinski Hotel Moika 22, St. Petersburg who joins the property from the Southwest of China, where he worked as General Manager at the Kempinski Hotel Chongqing since 2019.
The Supervisory Board has resolved on an early extension of Bernold Schroeder’s mandate as Chairman of the Management Board of Kempinski AG and confirmed his role as Chief Executive Officer of the Kempinski Group. Mr. Schroeder has been leading the Group since December 2020, when he was appointed to his present positions.