Human Resources

📈 Nils-Arne Schroeder joins Langham Hospitality Group as COO effective 22 June 2026, headquartered in Hong Kong. He will manage operations across 30+ hotels, supporting the development of 20+ projects. Upcoming openings include Thailand, China (2026), Italy, Malaysia (2027), and Saudi Arabia (2028). Schroeder brings over 30 years of hospitality experience, with leadership roles at Raffles, Fairmont, and Hilton. He will report to CEO Bob van den Oord, focusing also on sustainability and quality.

📈 Whitbread has appointed Mark Allan, CEO of Land Securities, as an independent non-executive director effective 1 October 2026. Allan will join the Audit and Nomination Committees. Previously, he led Land Securities since April 2020, and was CEO of St Modwen Properties and Unite Group. Kal Atwal joins Whitbread’s board from 1 September 2026. Horst Baier steps down from the board on 1 October after serving since November 2019. Christine Hodgson, Whitbread chair, praised Allan's strategic insight.

🏨 Morris Tiedemann, General Manager at AYANA Midplaza Jakarta, discussed hotel competition in luxury markets with Glenn Haussman and Suzanne Bagnera. He began his career in 2003 in Urumqi, needing a book to locate it. With 22 years of industry experience, Morris highlights Jakarta's competitive hospitality landscape and the strategies for success. His insights offer a unique perspective on navigating luxury hotel management challenges across diverse global markets.

Le Méridien, Washington, D.C., The Madison, has appointed Matt Sommers as its general manager. Sommers brings two decades of hospitality leadership experience spanning luxury, lifestyle and full-service hotels. “As we…

🏨 John Sutherland was appointed as general manager of NoMad London in Covent Garden in July 2025, succeeding Serena Lightner. He returns from Park Hyatt London River Thames, where he was director of sales and marketing since May 2024. NoMad, founded by Sydell Group in 2012, joined Hilton's portfolio in 2024. The brand expanded to Europe with the opening of NoMad London in 2021.

📁 Elike Clausen has been appointed general manager of Park Hyatt London River Thames, succeeding Rike Erdbrink. Clausen, a graduate of École hôtelière de Lausanne, brings extensive experience from Kempinski, having held senior leadership roles globally. He aims to enhance the hotel's luxury standing and operational performance in London. Clausen's background includes cluster manager roles at Kempinski Palace Portorož and Kempinski Hotel Adriatic, and his first GM position at Kempinski Hotel Aqaba, Jordan.

Leading wellness consultancy GOCO Hospitality , has appointed Indigo8 to lead its UK communications as it prepares for its most ambitious chapter yet. After nearly two decades shaping the global wellness hospitality sector, GOCO is entering a new phase of growth with the forthcoming launch of its consumer brand, Fivelements . The appointment comes as hospitality, healthcare and real estate converge around preventative health, longevity and community wellbeing. Having advised many of the world's leading hospitality and real estate brands while developing its own destinations, GOCO has spent almost twenty years embedding wellbeing into the design, development and operation of places that improve quality of life. GOCO believes the industry's next opportunity is creating places where people genuinely want to live, thrive and belong. A deeply personal mission For founders - and married couple - Ingo Schweder and Josephine Leung, this next chapter is rooted in lived experience. Both have experienced cancer firsthand. Schweder was diagnosed with terminal lung and testicular cancer aged 32, prompting a lifelong exploration of integrative health that ultimately led to GOCO's creation. Three decades later, Leung's own cancer diagnosis and recovery sparked a search to understand which therapies, treatments and practitioners people can trust. She co-founded the Bangkok-based OLiv Longevity clinic, with the goal of helping consumers navigate the fast-growing longevity market with greater transparency. Today, both believe the conversation around longevity has become too narrowly focused on lifespan. “For us, longevity is about healthspan, purpose, community and healthy environments,” says Schweder. “We judge success by one simple question: do our guests leave a better version of themselves than when they arrived?" Designing wellbeing from the ground up Most people have never heard of GOCO, and that’s largely by design. Founded in 2008, the company is the strategist, developer and adviser behind many of the hospitality industry's most ambitious wellbeing projects. Four Seasons, Cheval Blanc, Bulgari, Capella, Ritz Carlton, Rosewood, Waldorf Astoria, McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, PwC and Sotheby's have all sought its expertise. Few companies can take a project from the first idea through design, development and operation without something getting lost along the line; GOCO sees it through from start to finish, with consultancy expertise delivered by Horwath HTL Health & Wellness , all of which gives GOCO an unmatched command of what works commercially as well as experientially. For most of my career, I’ve watched our industry treat wellbeing as an add-on,” says Schweder. “We’ve never seen it that way. Being there from the first sketch, designing the architecture and the daily rhythms of a place, is what gives us the bigger ambition. We're creating places where people live well, thrive, belong, and leave better than when they arrived. Hospitality can become a catalyst for healthier communities, stronger social connections and more resilient destinations Ingo Schweder That philosophy underpins GOCO's belief in regenerative hospitality. Rather than applying generic sustainability frameworks, each project begins by considering the local community, understanding what already supports health and wellbeing, and designing hospitality that strengthens those existing

[New York – 23 July 2026] – Mews , the operating system for hospitality, has announced the appointment of Kirupa Pushparaj as Chief Legal Officer (CLO). Pushparaj brings more than two decades of legal and engineering experience across fintech, AI, crypto, and consumer technology, and joins Mews at a pivotal moment as the company continues to scale its payments infrastructure across 85+ countries and deepens its position as hospitality's operating system. Pushparaj reports to Richard Valtr, founder of Mews, and will lead the company's legal, compliance, and policy functions as it navigates an increasingly complex global regulatory environment. Richard Valtr, founder of Mews , said: "This has been a long search, and intentionally so. The CLO is a defining leadership role for Mews – one that will shape how we navigate some of the most important and complex projects ahead of us. Kirupa is exactly what we were looking for: a business-first legal leader who has spent his career enabling category-defining products in highly regulated environments. He also brings a rare depth of engineering and legal expertise, earning his law degree while working full-time as an engineer at Intel, before going on to spend over two decades as a senior legal leader scaling technology companies in highly regulated spaces." Pushparaj spent over eight years at Square – now Block – as Deputy General Counsel, helping steer the company through its IPO in 2015, and some of its most complex product launches and market initiatives, including crypto and emerging technologies. Before that, Kirupa also served as CLO at Step, a fintech unicorn later acquired by Beast Industries, where he had responsibility for legal, compliance, people, government affairs and strategic partnerships. Earlier in his career, Pushparaj held legal counsel roles at Amazon Lab126, the research and development company behind Amazon's consumer electronics, and spent six years as a hardware engineer at Intel. He holds a J.D. from the University of the Pacific, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from PSG College of Technology. Kirupa also holds leadership roles across the industry, with board and advisory positions at multiple AI and legal tech companies and an adjunct professorship at the law schools of Stanford and the University of California, Davis. Kirupa Pushparaj, Chief Legal Officer at Mews , on his appointment: "Few companies operate across the geographies, payment rails and regulatory regimes that Mews does, and that is exactly the type of complexity I am excited to work on. Hospitality has always been part of my life, so joining a company redefining what an operating system for this industry can look like is a genuine opportunity and I'm looking forward to what comes next."

Hyatt Hotels Corp. has announced the appointment of Eduardo Schutte as SVP, Commercial, Hyatt Inclusive Collection. In this role, Schutte will lead the commercial strategy for Hyatt’s Inclusive Collection, overseeing…

TPG Hotels & Resorts has appointed Prashanth Radhakrishnan as EVP of commercial strategy. In this newly created executive role, Radhakrishnan will lead the company’s integrated commercial strategy across revenue management,…