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SPECIAL REAL ESTATE FORUM
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EXPO REAL 2008
SPECIAL REAL ESTATE FORUM nel padiglione B3
Lo SPECIAL REAL ESTATE FORUM si propone di illustrare la
varietà degli immobili di godimento vincolato. Esperti dei
segmenti hotel, uffici, commercio al dettaglio, infrastrutture e
logistica presentano i loro progetti, discutono il loro punto di vista
economico e sono disponibili al dialogo con i partecipanti. Uno sguardo
competente nelle attuali tendenze e strategie di successo applicate da
chi opera nel settore. |
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| Prof. Macy Marvel, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland |
CURRICULUM VITAE
Mr. W. Macy Marvel
Professional Experience:
Professor of tourism and economics - Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, October, 1995 to the present. I teach courses to university-aged students (20-25 years of age) in the areas of tourism, and economics. In addition to my teaching duties, I have completed a federally funded research project concerning brand affiliation criteria for Swiss hotels. I also regularly publish tourism and hospitality industry studies for Travel & Tourism Intelligence/Mintel in London
Vice-President in charge of investment strategy - Société Bancaire Julius Baer, Geneva, December, 1990 - September, 1995. I was charged with defining the investment policy of the bank which included making presentations to the bank's investment committee, and writing the bank's investment policy publications.
Securities analyst - Banque Ferrier Lullin, Geneva, February, 1987 - November, 1990. My task was to analyse North American economies and investment markets for the portfolio managers of the bank, which included making recommendations and presentations to the bank's investment committee, as well as contributing to the bank's investment publications.
Corporate trainer- finance - Digital Equipment, S.A., Geneva. January, 1985 - January, 1987. As a trainer at Digital, I was responsible for running and creating financial training course for Digital Managers. For example, the courses included " Financial Awareness"- a general review of financial topics, and "Revenue Recording Systems", a specific, technical subject.
Auditor - Price, Waterhouse, S.A. , Geneva, July 1983 - December, 1985. I participated in the audit of a diverse group of PW clients in the Geneva area, including multinationals, banks, and international organisations.
Lecturer in finance and accounting - The American College of Switzerland, Leysin, VD., August, 1980- June, 1983. I taught all courses in the area of accounting and finance at the college.
Securities Analyst - The Value Line Survey, New York, N.Y., June, 1979 - June, 1980. I was responsible for analysing and writing reports on companies in several sectors of the U.S. stock market, including transportation, paper and forest products, and building supplies.
Academic degrees:
M.B.A., University of Toronto,
M.A., London School of Economics
B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Publications:
Several academic articles, numerous tourism market studies for Travel & Tourism Intelligence/Mintel (London) and numerous bank investment publications.
(Please see separate publications list.)
Speaker Activity – Macy Marvel
March 5, 1998, International Hotel Investment Forum, Berlin, moderated opening general session discussion about the effects of the euro on the hotel industry
November 6, 1998, EuroCHRIE Conference held at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne. Led general session panel discussion about hotel affiliations; franchises and management contracts; invited panelists were Asher Edelman, investor; Paul Slatterey, investment banker, Deutsche Bank Kleinwort Benson; and Jurgen Fischer, President of Hilton EMEA
March 8, 2001, International Hotel Investment Forum, Berlin, led workshop on hotel branding alternatives
February 7, 2002- Invited speaker and roundtable participant at the “Forum de la Construction”, Crans Montana, thème spécial, L’hôtellerie, “Comment rentabilser les structures hôtelières de montagne ? »
September 4, 2002- Invited panelist at the Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Lullier, Geneva, for the roundtable discussion and presentation on the theme of “ECOTOURISME: Débats et ateliers, Nature et tourisme en toute complicité”
June 26, 2003- Invited speaker/expert at the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ), Geneva. Expert Meeting on Effectiveness of Foreign Direct Investment Policies (measures for tourism development in developing countries)
September 24, 2004 – Moderated panel discussion about hotel financing in Switzerland at the Journée Académique in Martigny, VS, Switzerland (annual meeting of the association of alumni of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne)
March 15, 2005 – Addressed the annual meeting of the Irish Hotels Federation in Cork, Ireland about evaluating brand affiliations
October 13, 2005 – Presentation about hotel brand selection at the conference, “Franchising, aggregazioni e management contract nel settore alberghiero, Le opportunità di business ed i relativi costi”, sponsored by “Job in Tourism” and Advisor in Milan, Italy.
January 18, 2006 – presented paper, entitled, “Third-Party Websites versus Proprietary Hotel Sites — Who's Winning the War?” at the ENTER conference on “Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2006”, Lausanne, Switzerland
October 13, 2006 – Moderated panel discussion about “Positioning your hotel in its market” at the International Hotel Conference in Rome, Italy
November 1, 2006- Invited speaker/expert at annual convention of the ETOA (European Tour Operators Association) in London. The subject of the address was tourism forecasts for overseas incoming markets into Europe.
November 30, 2006- Invited speaker/expert at the Cumbre Sector Hoteliera Espagnol (annual convention of the Spanish Hoteliers Association) in Madrid. The subject of the address was rates and commissions for hoteliers.
March 7, 2007 – Panellist in the round table, “Chasing the Chinese Shirttail”, (hotel strategies for Chinese hotel guests) - International Hotel Investment Forum, Berlin, Germany
March 15, 2007 – Invited speaker at the Hotusa Hotel Chain XXIX General Assembly, Seville, Spain; title of address: “Managing costs and revenue management”
October 8, 2007 – Moderator of two hotel-related panels at the Expo Real in Munich.
March 5, 2008 – Moderator of budget hotels panel at the ITB in Berlin.
Macy Marvel
4 August 2008
Address: 48, chemin Louis-Dégallier, Versoix 1290 GE
Telephone: (022) 779-15-49; e-mail: macymarvel@bluewin.ch
Family situation: Married, two children aged 16 and 17
Nationality: Swiss
Languages: English mother tongue; fluent French written and spoken; basic understanding of German (German - speaking wife)
Computer skills:
Word, Excel, Reuters, Powerpoint, scanning devices, Datastream, Internet |
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| Frank Fiskers, President & Chief Executive Officer, Scandic Hotels, Stockholm |
Frank Fiskers, 47 and a Danish national, is President & CEO of Scandic Hotels, one of Europe's largest hotel operators. The company currently has 147 hotels in operation and under development in ten countries, and almost 6,000 employees. Scandic is embarking on an aggressive growth strategy with a target of pushing the chain to 200 hotels in few years.
Frank became CEO of Scandic in April 2007 as part of a private equity buy-out. Prior to joining Scandic he was for six years with Hilton as Vice President based in Frankfurt, Stockholm, London and Johannesburg.
Frank was also for a number of years with Rezidor in various senior operational positions - latest as Vice President, Nordic Countries.
Frank Fiskers received his formal education in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has attended various educational programs at Cornell University, London Business School and IMD. |
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| Jakob Forstnig, Head of Asset Management, Mountain Capital, London |
Jakob Forstnig heads the asset management for the hotel interests of Mountain Capital Ltd.. Mountain Capital is a London based private real estate investor in pubs, hotels and other commercial/residential property. Mountain Capital specialises in repositioning, rebranding and developing hotels across Europe and holds strategic partnerships with hotel operators. During the last three years Mountain Capital has acquired more than 40 hotels with a value exceeding € 800 million with a further € 90 million committed to capital improvements.
Previously Jakob worked in consulting and conducted hotel transaction advisory and turnaround projects in Europe and Central Asia for HVS International’s London office and Treugast Solution Group, Munich, Germany. His hotel operational experience was with Marriott International and other hotels in Europe and the US.
Jakob, a native Austrian, holds a joint MBA from Cranfield University, UK and E.M. Lyon, France and a hotel school degree from Villach, Austria. |
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| Martin Quinn, Senior Vice President Asset Management & Acquisitions, Westmont Hospitality, London |
Born and educated in Ireland, Martin has spent his entire working life outside of his native homeland. He has worked in the food industry in a variety of sales, marketing and commercial roles for Golden Vale Foods in the US and Unigate Foods in the UK. He joined Trusthouse Forte hotels in 1988 working in the central marketing departments of both the UK and International divisions. In 1992, he joined Holiday Inn Worldwide as a Marketing Manager responsible for all Corporate and channel marketing programmes. In 1993 he oversaw a major restructuring of the international sales team and relaunched the Corporate Account programme. In 1994 he launched the Priority Club loyalty programme across Europe, Middle East and Africa and established airline alliances with Lufthansa, KLM, Iberia, Swissair and Finnair.
Martin then moved into corporate finance and was responsible for investment appraisal and financial analysis for all hotel projects in EMEA. This was followed by a spell in strategy where he played a key role in the development and brand management of new Holiday Inn brand extensions and the redefinition of the brand essence and positioning for the Holiday Inn and Express brands. He then went on to become Vice President Development - Europe for IHG where he was responsible for almost $250 million worth of new hotel developments and his team signed over 90 franchise and management contracts in the two years under his leadership.
In April 2001 he moved to Westmont Hospitality Group as Senior Vice President Asset Management & Acquisitions where he is responsible for buying and selling hotel assets and overseeing the performance and investments in the current hotel portfolio in order to maximise returns. He played a key role in the acquisition of Queens Moat Houses Plc in 2004, a €1 billion hotel acquisition, and since then has overseen the asset management of the QMH portfolio.
Martin has a BSc Management and MA from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in Financial Economics from the University of London, while he has also obtained diplomas in Accounting & Finance from the ACCA and International Finance from Boston University. |
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| Erwin Rieck, Chief Executive Officer, Queens Moat Houses, Great Britain |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005 - current CEO QMH Ltd. Romford Essex CEO Chief Executive of QMH Ltd, a Hotel Owning
and Operating Company consisting of 60 plus Full Service Hotels in the UK, NL, and
Germany, held in various legal entities.
1997 – 2005 CEO of Citadines S.A. in Paris, France.President et Directeur General of Citadines S.A.
a Company owning and operating 48 Extended Stay Facilities in France, Germany, and
the UK.
1989 – 1997 Renaissance Hotels and Resorts International. A Hotel Operating Company Operating
Luxury Hotels World Wide
1995 – 1997 President Renaissance Europe
1993 – 1995 President Renaissance The Americas
1989 – 1993 Chief Operating Officer Renaissance International
1985 – 1989 Sausmann Management, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Partner, responsible for the Hotel Operations under contract with the company.
1978 – 1989 Ramada International. A Hotel Operating and Franchise Company, Phoenix Arizona, USA.
1978 – 1980 President Ramada Europe, Bruxelles, Belgium.
1980 – 1985 Sr. VP Operations North America, responsible for the company owned and
managed operations.
1967 – 1978 Commonwealth Holiday Inns of Canada.
Vice President Operations in different jurisdictions. Europe, and Canada.
1961 – 1965 Intercontinental Hotels. Formative Years.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Marital status: Married, two children
Nationality: German
Age: 62
Place of Birth: Unterkochen, Germany
Adress:
AM SCHNITTELBERG 30 • D - 65812 BAD SODEN • GERMANY
PHONE +49-6196-61403 • E-MAIL EJRIECK@AOL.COM |
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