Louvre Hotels Group strengthens its Development and Real-Estate team
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Louvre Hotels Group strengthens its Development and Real-Estate team
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Category: Worldwide - Careers
- Appointments
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2012-06-18
Louvre Hotels Group today announces the appointment of Delphine Jaouen as Director of Asset Management and Saurabh Chawla as Director of International Development & Acquisitions. Joining the team of Chief Development Officer Matthieu Evrard, their roles will involve supporting the Group’s extensive development plans, along with its active real-estate management programme, and raising capital from private and institutional investors.
Louvre Hotels Group, which currently has 1,075 hotels, aims to open 76 more this year, including 51 internationally, and to increase the rate of new openings to 100 per year in the medium term. Today the Group has about 170 establishments in the pipeline – roughly 20,000 rooms – and is targeting high-growth markets such as India, Brazil, the Middle-East and Africa as a priority. It is also aiming to seize opportunities to gain market share in France and Europe in well-targeted segments.
With more than 10 years’ experience in the tourism and hotels industry at Accor, Delphine Jaouen is an expert in hotel real-estate financing and transactions. She started her career at KPMG and was then Internal Audit Manager of the Tourism & Leisure division at Accor, before taking up a Senior Manager role within the M&A and Hotel Real-Estate Financing management team. Her role will be managing the redevelopment of the Group’s subsidiaries portfolio, the implementation of capital raising programmes to support the Group’s development, as well as reactive management of its shares portfolio.
Possessing more than 14 years’ experience in the hotel industry in India and Europe, Saurabh Chawla has gained significant expertise in development and strategic consulting in the sector. Recently, he was a Partner at the management consultancy firm HVS in London, where he began in 2006.
His role within Louvre Hotels Group will be development outside Europe, overseeing local advancement initiatives, managing and organising international partners, as well as investments, acquisitions and financing related to development outside Europe.
On the subject of these appointments, Matthieu Evrard, Louvre Hotels Group’s Chief Development Officer said: “I am very happy to welcome Delphine and Saurabh to my team during this period of fast growth for the Group. I am convinced that their experience and in-depth knowledge of development and hotel real-estate will be valuable assets in actively pursuing the development of our brand portfolio.”
About Louvre Hotels Group
Following their respective purchase by Starwood Capital in 2005 and 2009, the alliance between
Louvre Hôtels and Golden Tulip became Louvre Hotels Group in April 2011, making it a leader in the global hospitality market with more than1,000 hotels in 42 countries ranging from 1 to 5 stars.
The Group, established in 1976, now counts 6 brands: Première Classe, Campanile, Kyriad, Tulip Inn, Golden Tulip and Royal Tulip Luxury Hotels.
Louvre Hotels Group, actively pursuing its development in France and abroad, opened 62 new hotels worldwide in 2011 and focuses on strong growth markets such as India, China, Brazil, the Middle East and North Africa.
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