About the Hotel Investment Conference

Anita Mendiratta

A committed Tourism & Development practitioner, Anita is the Founder and President of ANITA MENDIRATTA & Associates (first launched as CACHET CONSULTING), a highly respected and trusted international consulting firm based in London, UK.

With over two decades of professional working and living experience worldwide, Anita’s hands-on, cross-cultural, cross-industry expertise in both public and private sectors has created an innate ability to feel the ‘heartbeat’ of societies – the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental dynamics impacting and inspiring nations facing change, including confronting challenge. Importantly, with established expertise in Travel, Tourism & Aviation, and proven agility in mobilising impact across diplomatic, governmental and business spheres, she has earned the trust of leaders seeking to unlock higher levels of performance. This includes being the bridge between government and business, aligning missions, mandates, metrics and management principles critical for economic development programmes.

For this reason, Anita is highly sought after as both a strategist & advisor in the areas of national growth, development, and often, recovery.

She is also honoured to be:

• SPECIAL ADVISOR to the Secretary General of the UNWTO
• STRATEGIC ADVISOR TO CNN INTERNATIONAL in the area of Tourism & Development as lead Consultant of CNN’s T.A.S.K. GROUP
• STRATEGIC RESOURCE TO THE WORLD BANK, WTTC, IATA and ATAG in Tourism, Aviation and Development 

Camil Yazbeck

Camil Yazbeck is Senior Vice President, Head of Development of Accor Europe. Camil is responsible for the development and expansion of Accor’s 39 hotel brands and 30 residential brands, working closely with investors, owners and partners and leads the Development Teams across Europe.

Prior to joining Accor, Camil was Partner and Investment Director, Hospitality & Leisure at Patron Capital, a leading Pan-European private equity real estate investor, where he led all aspects of origination, acquisition, underwriting, execution and asset management of Hospitality-related investments, including 60+ hotels throughout Europe.

Camil previously spent over 20 years in the hospitality industry, focusing on all levels of hotel management and held several senior leadership positions with international hotel companies globally.

Camil is French and Lebanese. He earned his MBA from IMHI - Cornell University and ESSEC School of Management

Accor is a global hotel and residence operator and franchisor, and the single largest hospitality company in Europe. As a market leader, Accor offers the largest brand portfolio in the hotel industry comprised of internationally acclaimed luxury and premium brands, Lifestyle brands, conversion brands and smart concepts, as well as popular midscale and economy brands and awe-inspiring resorts. Accor has transformed from a hotel group into an all-in-one platform to live, work, play, a unique ecosystem of hospitality services. The lifestyle loyalty program ALL – Accor Live Limitless offers customers hotels (Live); co-working spaces (Work), and entertainment including restaurants, bars, nightclubs, sports, spectacular destinations and unforgettable experiences (Play).

Christian Gaiser

Christian is Co-Founder/CEO of COSI, the tech-driven operator building a new short-stay experience. Launched at the end of 2019, COSI already opened 10 locations in under 1 year - in Berlin, Munich, Prague, Vienna. COSI realized 90% occupancy at the peak of Covid crises. COSI is backed by two of the leading tech funds in Europe (Cherry and e.ventures) as well as many travel & real estate entrepreneurs. Prior to COSI, Christian built his first tech company Bonial, a leading drive to store marketing partner across Europe, featuring 25mln users. He led the company as CEO for 9 years and sold the business to Axel Springer.

Christian grew up in a family-run hotel business in Germany`s Black Forest and has a background in business administration at WHU Vallendar & HEC Montreal

Claus-Dieter Jandel

Claus-Dieter Jandel has been in leading positions for most of his more than 40 years within the hospitality industry. With this wealth of experience, he is a true expert in the hospitality sector. 

Jandel started his remarkable career in 1975 at the Steigenberger Airport Hotel in Frankfurt, followed by several international positions. After his first hotel opening in 1985 as General Manager at the age of 28, he returned to Steigenberger Hotel Group in 1988 to become the General Manager of the Steigenberger Hotel & Golf Resort Bad Griesbach. Three years later, he was announced Regional Director, then Area Vice President, based at the company’s headquarters in Frankfurt. 

Since 1998, Claus-Dieter Jandel held the position of Authorized Representative and served as Senior Vice President and, later, as Executive Vice President. In 2004, he was appointed as Chief Human Resources Officer and in 2009, appointed as the “Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer.” As Chief Development Officer, he built up the Business Development department and, to this day, continues to be responsible for the growth strategy of the company with more than 100 Signings since then. 

Furthermore, Mr. Jandel is Managing Director of the Steigenberger Consulting GmbH and of the D.H. Deutsche Hospitality GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, which are both subsidiaries of the Steigenberger Hotels AG. 

He was also founding Chairman of the Joint Venture “THE GERMAN HOTEL GROUP, Beijing Ltd.,” a Sino-Foreign company of Deutsche Hospitality (Steigenberger Hotels AG) that operated Steigenberger hotels in China before the Acquisition of Deutsche Hospitality by the Singapore based Huazhu Group took place. 

Denis Montrelay

Denis Montrelay joined The Student Hotel in March 2015 as Investment Director, and established himself a year later as Head of Investments - Europe. He has served in his current role as Chief Investment Officer since January 2019, whereby he has been responsible for sourcing and securing new locations for TSH.

Prior to his tenure at The Student Hotel, Denis dedicated five years to Unibail-Rodamco, Europe’s largest listed retail real estate company and predecessor of the Franco-Dutch-Australian giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, formed in 2018. In his time at Unibail-Rodamco, Denis worked as Investment Manager with corporate teams which focused on the European Market. In his final year with the company, he held the position of Investment Director – Offices. 

A graduate from the prestigious ESCP Business School in Paris, Denis is specialised in finance and entrepreneurship and holds a Master’s degree in business economics from Humboldt University in Berlin. A native of France, Denis speaks French, English, German, Dutch and Portuguese.

Dimitris Manikis

Dimitris Manikis was appointed President and Managing Director for EMEA in April 2018. In his current role as President of EMEA, he is responsible for the development of all of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ brands in the EMEA region as well as maximising the performance of all new and existing franchise and managed hotels. He focuses on driving the strategic objectives of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts including quality and technology solutions as well as new business, loyalty, sales and marketing.

Dimitris Manikis has a long-standing career and deep knowledge of the hospitality industry. Prior to joining Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, he spent over 27 years with RCI, the worldwide leader in vacation exchange, across a number of senior roles, and most recently served as Vice President of Business Development for EMEA. Earlier in his career, he also held a number of key positions in the region as Managing Director of RCI Greece and RCI South Africa.

A Greek national, Dimitris was born in Athens and holds a Bachelor degree in Tourism and Administration from the Technical University of Patras in Greece, and an MSc Postgraduate degree in Tourism Marketing from the University of Surrey. His passion for people and work ethic comes from his father, who built up a grocery retail business in Athens where Dimitris learned the value of elevated customer service, having a positive outlook and hard work as being the foundations of success in both business and life.

He is based at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ London office.

Dominic Seyrling

Dominic helped establish Archer Hotel Capital in 2018 with a portfolio of seed assets comprising approximately €2bn of gross asset value. At Archer Dominic is part of the executive committee in charge of the day-to-day running of the business. As Investment Director his primary responsibilities include identifying, sourcing and executing investment and other growth opportunities across the platform. Dominic also is the primary contact for investors, brokers, owners and potential operating partners.

Since the creation of Archer Hotel Capital Dominic has overseen the sale of the Marriott Rive Gauche & Conference Centre in Paris, as well as acquisitions of the Conrad Dublin and the Madrid Edition. Following the outbreak of Covid-19 across Europe Dominic helped secure a €380 million, cross-collateralised financing package for a portfolio of 7 hotels in 5 different European countries including the Sheraton Stockholm during a time when most of the hotels were not operational.

Dominic comes from a hotel background in Austria where for six generations his family owned and operated a hotel and a restaurant in the Austrian Alps. Prior to joining Archer, Dominic spent nine years at Host Hotels & Resorts’ European joint venture where he played an instrumental part in the success of the vehicle’s second fund which was launched in 2011 with €450m of equity commitments and culminated in the sale to GIC and APG as part of the creation of Archer Hotel Capital. Prior to his time at Host he spent four years at Jones Lang LaSalle’s Hotel Capital Markets teams in London and New York.  He holds a Bachelor of Science from Lausanne Hotel School and graduated with distinction from London Business School where he obtained a Master in Finance in 2014.

Elie Younes

Elie leads Radisson Hotel Group’s expansions across Europe, the Middle East & Africa.  He builds and supports teams at 8 development offices in EMEA.  Under his leadership, the group launched and delivered an active asset-light then asset right strategy – transacted around 200 hotels and opened around 130; while Radisson Blu continues to be the largest upper upscale brand in Europe.

He is focused on driving organic growth but also helps drive the company’s expansion related acquisitions, as well as the growth into new business concepts on alternative lodging.

He has recently re-engineered Radisson Hotel Group’s development strategy to focus on an asset right growth and accordingly adjusted the organization and its corresponding capabilities for execution. He has a clear vision of delivering a compelling value proposition to investment stakeholders and is on a mission to have this executed, globally. Elie’s cultural background and lifestyle accelerate his stamina and ability to be nimble, anticipate and act fast – decisively.

A Lebanese national and English citizen, Elie began his career in managerial roles in his home country, before joining HVS in London in 2001. He progressed quickly to the position of Director (and a Designate MD) with HVS within 5 years. He also authored a number of publications on hotel performance assessments and investments. In 2007, he joined Starwood in London as Senior Director of Acquisitions and Development. His next move took him to Hilton Hotels Worldwide as Vice President Development, based in Dubai, before joining Rezidor in 2010, as Vice President of Business Development for the Middle East and Africa. In January 2013, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Business Development EMEA, and then to Executive Vice President & Chief Development Officer two years later.

Elie is fluent in English, French and Arabic and loves exploring new cultures around the world. He is educated in Beirut, Paris, New York and London, at universities like Notre Dame, IMHI/Essec, Insead, Cornell University, Johnson Graduate Business School and City University. 

He is a keen sportsman practising martial arts with a competitive flair and an obsession for continuous improvement and self-development.

Elie is a devoted father of a daughter and a son.  

Josh Wyatt

Mr. Wyatt is a highly engaged and driven entrepreneur, organizational leader and investor in hospitality, leisure, wellness and real estate asset classes, currently serving as Chief Executive Officer of NeueHouse since October 2018, and credited with creating and scaling the world’s first design-led, global hostel business – Generator Hostels. Josh and the NH Management team recently led an updated fundraise for NeueHouse in order to invest further into its existing operations and programming platform and to scale by adding new locations across North America and Europe.   With flagship clubs in Los Angeles and New York, NeueHouse is considered one of the world’s foremost platforms for creative leaders, businesses and entrepreneurs.

Previously serving as the President of Equinox Hotels and Related Companies, Josh helped develop the initial hotel strategy for Equinox Hotels - a new and innovative hospitality platform in the luxury wellness space leveraging elevated design, Equinox programming and specialized positioning/branding.

Prior to Equinox, Josh served as Co-Founder and Chief Strategic Officer of Generator Hostels, an award-winning global brand, which was first-of-its-kind to offer upscale, design-focused hostel accommodations. Responsible for creating the Generator brand & platform, and leading Generator’s vision, global growth, design and brand strategy for +9 years, he built Generator into a global platform, with Generator selling for $550 million in May 2017 to Queensgate Holdings.

Mr. Wyatt has also been featured in numerous business, lifestyle and trade publications covering hospitality, wellness and the shared workspace sectors, including the Financial Times, Fast Company, New York Times, Monocle, Courier, Bloomberg TV, Forbes, WWD, Lodging Magazine, Architectural Record, Sleeper, Skift, Hospitality Design and the Wall Street Journal.

Josh received his B.A. in International Studies & Economics from American University (1996) and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (2005).

Luis Arsuaga

Luis Arsuaga is a renowned expert in hotel development, an area he manages at NH Hotel Group as SVP of Global Development since January 2018, having previous experiences at the international real estate consultancy Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) and CBRE. At both consultancies, where he built a career dating back nearly 16 years, Luis coordinated and managed some of the key transactions in the hotel business in Spain and Portugal and cemented himself as an expert in analysing and developing long-term hotel strategies.

He is a law graduate from Madrid's Complutense University, holds an MBA from ICADE and a Certificate in Finance from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Marianne Hoffman

Marianne Hoffman is the Investment & AM Director and Commercial Head of Deals & Incubation Department at Nordic Real Estate Partners (NREP), a leading pan-Nordic private equity real estate investor. NREP has made more than 275 real estate investments, and its managed assets are worth €5 billion.

Marianne has over 20 years of experience in managing commercial real estate. In the past she has been specializing in retail assets – larger shopping centres, smaller convenience centres and stand-alone grocery shops. However, As Commercial Head of the Swedish Deals & Incubation Department, Marianne now works across all funds and manages most of asset classes.

Marianne holds an undergraduate diploma in Business & Human Resources Management from prestigious Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Michelle Weiss

Michelle Weiss is Head of Hotel Properties at Aareal Bank AG, one of the leading debt financing

providers within the hospitality industry. The bank currently holds a portfolio of over €8 billion of

hotel financing and is active in more than 25 countries across Europe, North America, Asia, and

Australia. Aareal Bank’s hotel team, which consists of eight hospitality professionals, focuses

primarily on lending to first-class hotels in prime locations as well as portfolio transactions.

Prior to that, Michelle Weiss was a Senior Associate at HVS Hodges Ward Elliott, focusing on

the sale and financing of hotels as well as operator selections. She joined the team from HVS

Madrid in 2007, where she conducted feasibility and market studies and performed hotel

valuations for major hotel clients. Ms. Weiss is a graduate of Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne

and holds a Bachelor of Science in International Hospitality Management.

Niko Karstikko

Niko Karstikko is a seasoned tech entrepreneur and investor reinventing the hospitality industry as Co-Founder & CEO of Bob W. Backed by NREP, byFounders and other leading real estate and venture capital investors, Bob W offers a fresh and sustainable alternative to hotels and hosted homes driven by technology, data and human connection. Bob W currently operates 6 properties in Helsinki and Tallinn with plans to expand to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and London within the next 2 years.

Pedro Anderson

Founder and COO of Winding Tree - Pedro Anderson is a social entrepreneur and proponent for open and decentralized systems. Prior to Winding Tree he sold millions of dollars of SaaS products in the event tech space and founded a non-profit in hospitality. 

Winding Tree connects travel businesses without intermediaries. Airlines, Hotels and other suppliers can drive bookings that completely bypass the GDS and OTA fees and barriers to innovation. This means cheaper, faster and more secure travel for end-users and more profitability for travel suppliers and businesses. All of the technology is open source and built using Public blockchain technology. Nordic Choice Hotels is the first hotel brand to be listed on Winding Tree. 

Peter Ebertz

Peter is Managing Partner and Head of Hotels at Art-Invest Real Estate, based in Cologne, Germany. Since 2012, he is responsible for all hotel activities of the Art-Invest Group, where he built up a hotel portfolio of ca. 32 hotels with a total investment volume of approx. € 1,2 bn.

Peter leads a dedicated hotel team of 15 hotel investment specialists with expertise in investment, development, asset management, hotel operations as well as technical services that focus on enhancing the asset value through repositioning, re-branding and refurbishment activities. References include the Le Méridien Frankfurt, the Sofitel Hamburg, Nikko Hotel in Düsseldorf and the Ruby Hotel in Munich as well as the current development of a 25h Hotel in Florence, Italy and Moxy Hotels at Cologne Airport and Cologne Muelheim, which will be operated by GHOTEL Group that has been acquired by Art-Invest Real Estate in 2020.

Peter has over 15 years of experience in the hotel sector. Before joining Art-Invest, he worked in hotel management, strategic business development and investment banking. At Ebertz & Partner Real Estate he was responsible for a hotel portfolio with a volume of approx. € 1.5 bn., spread over approx. 50 hotels. Peter studied economics and holds a PhD at the University of Münster.

Peter Tengström

Peter is part of the founding team of Midstar and is Partner and the Managing Director. Peter has more than 20 years of experience in hotel asset management from both the owner and the operator perspective. Before founding Midstar he worked for the Rezidor Hotel Group, based in Brussels, responsible for business development in the Nordic and Baltic region including new developments as well as major repositioning of existing hotels in the portfolio. He also worked for Pandox AB, a public hotel real estate company in Stockholm, as part of the acquisition and investment team. During his earlier career, he worked in London with consultancy companies HVS, and CBRE. Peter holds a Hospitality Management Diploma from Cesar Ritz, and a BSc in Hospitality Administration from Cornell University, focusing on finance and hotel real estate.

Satya Anand

Satya Anand was appointed President for Europe, Middle East & Africa in October 2020 and is accountable for developing and managing Marriott's hotel portfolio in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which comprises of 25 brands in 75 countries and territories. 

Mr. Anand began his career with Marriott International in 1988 and most recently served as Chief Operations Officer, Luxury & Southern Europe and Global Design EMEA from July 2016, where he was responsible for the overall operations of the luxury portfolio in Europe and the complete portfolio of brands in Southern Europe as well as leading the Global Design team.  Prior to this, Mr. Anand was Europe’s Chief Financial Officer for four years and held Area Vice President roles for Western and Central Europe respectively as well as various Cluster General Manager, operations and finance positions both on and above property.

Educated primarily in Bangalore, Mr. Anand holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Bangalore’s MES College of Commerce (1982-1985) and in 1988 completed his Diploma in Hotel and Tourism Management from the Institute of Tourism & Hotel Management in Semmering, Austria. 

Mr. Anand currently resides in London and Vienna with his wife Lisa and daughter Savita.

Sharan Pasricha

Sharan Pasricha (39) is Founder & CEO of Ennismore, a global hospitality company building brands that inspire discovery in some of the most exciting cities and neighbourhoods around the world. Ennismore has assets under management of $2b and was included in Fast Company’s ‘World’s Most Innovative Companies’ list for 2020. 

Selected as part of the Financial Times’ Future 100, the UK’s fastest growing businesses that are shaping the future of their sector, Ennismore’s brands include; The Hoxton, a global series of open-house hotels across Europe and the US; Sibling, the tech-savvy little brother to the Hoxton which provides value without compromising design; Gleneagles, the iconic glorious playground in the Scottish Highlands with an upcoming townhouse in Edinburgh, alongside several other brands. 

Pasricha was included in Conde Nast Traveller’s ‘50 People Changing The Way We Travel’ and The Caterer’s ‘Top 100 Most Powerful People in Hospitality’. 

He was awarded Graduate of the Last Decade by his alma mater, London Business School, in 2018 where he obtained his MBA.

Tiffany Misrahi

Tiffany is the Vice-President of Policy at WTTC where she is responsible for shaping the Travel & Tourism sector’s policy agenda. She joined WTTC in September 2018. 

Prior to joining WTTC, she spent 8 years with the World Economic Forum, where she was the Head of the Aviation, Travel and Tourism Industry. At the Forum, Tiffany was responsible for designing the industry agenda as well as the development and management of strategic relationships and partnerships with industry leaders. She was the co-editor of the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness report and led the design and implementation of new initiatives including the Future of Security in Travel and Travel, Tourism & Outbreaks.

Tiffany started her career at the International Trade Centre where she collaborated on the development and implementation of its Tourism-led Poverty Reduction Programme.

Tiffany has a BSc in International Business from Warwick University and a MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science.  She recently completed an Executive Master in Leadership as part of the World Economic Forum’s Global Leadership Fellows Programme.

Torgeir Silseth

Silseth’s first hotel related work experience was as a chef at Union Hotell in Geiranger, an effort that led to a prestigious trainee position at the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten in Hamburg. In 1991, he became General Manager at Quality Hotel Hafjell and held this position until 1996, when he was made Operations Manager for Choice Hotels Scandinavia (later Nordic Choice Hotels). In 1999, Silseth was named deputy CEO, and in 2006 he replaced Petter Stordalen as CEO of the company while retaining a close work relationship with the owner and chairman of the board of Nordic Choice Hotels.

Silseth is educated at the Norwegian School of Hotel Management and has also served as a UN peacekeeper in Lebanon.

Trine Sundt

Trine Sundt has been a banker for 35 years - the last 30 year at DNB and the latest 20 years working with large clients in Service industries and Hotel operations. DNB is Norway's largest bank with a large portfolio of Nordic hotel operators and Nordic hotel real estate owners.

Demian Hodari

Demian Hodari is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at École hôtelière de Lausanne where his innovative teaching methods have been recognized as the Best Teaching Practice. His research has also won numerous awards and he was named researcher of the year in 2015. Demian’s achievements were recently acknowledged by Cornell University School of Hotel Administration where he was invited to spend a semester sabbatical as a visiting research fellow at the university centre for hospitality research. His research focuses on the strategic partnerships between hotel owners, management companies. Asset managers and general managers, and on the performance of professionally managed versus independently managed hotels. His most recent academic publications have appeared in the Cornell’s hospitality quarterly, Tourism Management, the international journal of hospitality management and the journal of hospitality financial management. He regularly presents his research at academic conferences, provides executive education and is a frequent moderator and speaker at hotel industry events. Demian regularly published practitioner-oriented articles in hotel industry trade publications.

Prior to beginning his academic career, Demian spent 15 years working in the hospitality industry. He was several years a hotel general manager and the president of an independent hotel management and consulting company in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He holds a Ph.D. in Strategic management from the university of surreys school of management, a masters (honours) from Cornell university school of hotel administration and a B.A in comparative religions and philosophy from Georgetown university.

Anita Mendiratta

A committed Tourism & Development practitioner, Anita is the Founder and President of ANITA MENDIRATTA & Associates (first launched as CACHET CONSULTING), a highly respected and trusted international consulting firm based in London, UK.

With over two decades of professional working and living experience worldwide, Anita’s hands-on, cross-cultural, cross-industry expertise in both public and private sectors has created an innate ability to feel the ‘heartbeat’ of societies – the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental dynamics impacting and inspiring nations facing change, including confronting challenge. Importantly, with established expertise in Travel, Tourism & Aviation, and proven agility in mobilising impact across diplomatic, governmental and business spheres, she has earned the trust of leaders seeking to unlock higher levels of performance. This includes being the bridge between government and business, aligning missions, mandates, metrics and management principles critical for economic development programmes.

For this reason, Anita is highly sought after as both a strategist & advisor in the areas of national growth, development, and often, recovery.

She is also honoured to be:

• SPECIAL ADVISOR to the Secretary General of the UNWTO
• STRATEGIC ADVISOR TO CNN INTERNATIONAL in the area of Tourism & Development as lead Consultant of CNN’s T.A.S.K. GROUP
• STRATEGIC RESOURCE TO THE WORLD BANK, WTTC, IATA and ATAG in Tourism, Aviation and Development 

Heleri Rande

Originally from Estonia, Heleri has lived in seven countries and holds a Bachelor’s Degree from New York University in Economics and Business, as well as an executive MBA in Hospitality Administration from École Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) in Switzerland. 
 
After leading Puccini Group’s growth in EMEA for two years, she has partnered with THINK Hospitality to deliver on F&B strategy projects helping brands and owners assess the market, find the right concept positioning and/or operator & chef for the properties. Her portfolio includes the likes of Accor, Hilton, Kempinski, EC4 Hotels, Puro Hotels, SuperCity Group and Marriott.
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She is the Contributing Editor of Supper Magazine & programme director at various major hospitality events around the world. 

Christian Kielgast

Christian Kielgast is a partner and has been an integral part of building up and expanding NHC since joining the company in 2008.  The main area of activity is advising investors on hotel transactions, development projects including operator searches and contract negotiations as well as M&A advisory. Over the years, Christian has advised on hotel transactions and development projects with a combined aggregate value in excess of 3 billion EUR. Christian is based on NHC’s Copenhagen office but is active across the Nordics and coordinate cross-border clients and projects.

Christian is a honors graduate from the prestigious hotel management school Ecôle Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) in Switzerland.

Emil Lindvang Bensten

Emil joined as Partner in Nordic Hotel Consulting in January 2019, focusing on advising real-estate investors and developers, he has been with the company since summer 2014. Emil has a mixed academic background in Finance and Hospitality. Most recently he has completed his Master of Science (MSc.) in Economics and Business Administration in the Finance specialization from Aarhus University in Denmark. Before that, he graduated from Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) in Switzerland, receiving an undergraduate degree in International Hospitality Management. Earlier, Emil has worked in hotels and restaurants in London and Copenhagen.