He will be a member of the Group's Executive Committee.
Amir will be responsible for the F&B business worldwide. He will work closely with the regional CEOs and the Global Marketing teams to redefine our Food & Beverage objectives and strategy for each region and brand. He will also be responsible for rolling out Food & Beverage concepts.
This appointment will be effective from September 1st 2015.
Commenting on the appointment, Sébastien Bazin, AccorHotels' Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, declared: "Rethinking in-depth our Food & Beverage offer is one of our priorities to ensure the success of AccorHotels' transformation.
In his previous roles, Amir actively worked along with us to establish the right diagnosis and I am very glad of his joining us to accelerate the implementation of our new F&B strategy.
His international experience and his extensive knowledge of the hotel-restaurant field
will be great assets to assist our teams in the rolling out of our strategy as well as to position our catering offer as a truly differentiating factor for our guests, partners and employees."
Amir Nahai is American. He holds a BA in Government from Dartmouth College and anMBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Amir Nahai was previously a partner at Bain and Company's New York office, and has more than 15 years of experience with the strategy and management consulting firm in the hospitality, gaming, media/entertainment and technology sectors.
Throughout his career, he has supported clients across the globe and has worked out of multiple offices in the US (Boston, New York, Los Angeles), Asia (Singapore, Thailand,
India, China) and Europe (Paris, London).
ABOUT ACCORHOTELS
AccorHotels is a Group united by a shared passion for hospitality and driven by a shared promise to make everyone Feel
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Over 180,000 women and men in almost 3,800 AccorHotels establishments look after thousands of guests every day in 92 countries.
AccorHotels is the world's leading hotel operator and offers its customers, partners and employees:
- its dual expertise as a hotel operator and franchisor (HotelServices) and a hotel owner and investor (HotelInvest);
- a large portfolio of internationally renowned brands covering the full spectrum, with luxury (Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Grand Mercure, The Sebel), midscale (Novotel, Suite Novotel, Mercure, Mama Shelter, Adagio) economy (ibis, ibis Styles, ibis budget, adagio access and hotelF1) establishments;
- a powerful marketplace and loyalty program Le Club AccorHotels
- almost half a century of commitment to corporate citizenship and solidarity with the PLANET 21 program.
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