Hotel Yearbook Authors

• GREG ABBOTT
  SVP DataArt
• COLIN ABERCROMBIE
  Managing Director at Abercrombie Training and Management Consultancy
• DR. PETER AGEL
  Global Segment Leader Hotels at Oracle
• PHILIP ALFORD
  Project Lead, Digital Transformation, Bournemouth University
• NIGEL ALLPORT
  Vice President - EMEA at Digital Alchemy CRM
• GIOVANNI ANGELINI
  Advisor & Consultant at Angelini Hospitality
• ANGELA ANTHONISZ
  Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management
• CHRIS ATKIN
  Chief Commercial Officer at iRiS Software Systems Ltd
• ANNE-MARIE AURIAULT
  Senior Adviser – Head of Asset Management for Eurofin
• ZORAN BAČIĆ
  Senior Partner and Managing Director of Horwath HTL, Italy
• PHILIP BACON
  Director, Planning & Development at Horwath HTL
• STEVE BAEK
  Director at Horwath HTL Singapore
• ROBERT BARTELDS
  Head of Hospitality Product and Strategy, TP Vision Netherlands B.V.
• ALEX BATCHELOR
  Chief Operating Officer at BrainJuicer
• JOBY BERETTA
  Founder and Executive Director at The Bench
• JÖRG P. BERGER
  CEO at SIHOT (GUBSE AG)
• MAGNUS BERGLUND
  Director of Accessibility, Scandic Hotels
• DAVE BERKUS
  Author of 14 business books and of the popular blog, BERKONOMICS
• CHRISTINE BEUCHERT
  Senior Director, Marketing and Ecommerce Strategy at Marcus Hotels & Resorts
• RAVNEET BHANDARI
  Chief Executive Officer at LodgIQ
• MICHAEL BLAKE
  Executive Vice President & CEO at Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG)
• FLOOR BLEEKER
  Chief Information Officer at Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts
• MARKUS BOBERG
  Vice President Business Development at ASSA ABLOY Hospitality
• PIERRE BOETTNER
  founder and CEO, hospitality pulse
• BRANKO BOGUNOVIĆ
  Project Manager / Partner at Horwath HTL
• BERNHARD BOHNENBERGER
  President of Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas
• CARSON BOOTH
  CEO of Berlin-based SnapShot GmbH
• PATRICK BOSWORTH
  Co-Founder and CEO at Duetto
• NICK BOSWORTH
  VP Brand and Marketing at Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts
• JOHN BOWEN
  Founder and CEO at MediaConcepts
• OLIVIER BRACARD
  Co Founder & CEO at HOSCO
• FRAN BRASSEUX
  Executive Vice President of HSMAI
• JASON BRYANT
  Founder and co-CEO at Nor1
• BONNIE BUCKHIESTER
  President & CEO at Buckhiester Management
• JOHN BURNS
  Hospitality Technology Consultant
• EILIDH CALLUM
  Consultant with Horwath HTL Singapore
• MARIANO CARRIZO
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• MARIANO CARRIZO
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• ASHLEIGH CARROLL
  Student at The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management in Dubai
• JEFFREY CATRETT
  Academic Director at Institut Paul Bocuse
• ELENA CAVAGNARO
  Professor of Sustainability in Hospitality and Tourism at Stenden University of Applied Sciences
• RAJ CHANDNANI
  Vice President, Strategy for WATG and Wimberly Interiors
• SANJAY CHIB
  Program Manager Global BBA and academic faculty at Les Roches Global Hospitality Education
• MIKE CHUMA
  Vice President of Product Strategy and Marketing at IDeaS
• SANJA CIZMAR
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• KATE CLARK
  Global VP of Product Management for Managed Services at Oracle | MICROS
• ROBERT COLE
  Founder of RockCheetah
• GALEN COLLINS
  Professor, School of Hotel and Restaurant Managment, W.A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University
• CHRISTOPHER H. CORDEY
  CEO | Strategic Foresight Advisor at Futuratinow
• CLÉMENCE CORNUZ
  Research associate at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
• BRADLEY COX
  Digital Communications Professional
• RACHEL CRAWFORD
  Head of Events and Special Initiatives for Generator
• CIARA CROSSAN
  Founder & CEO at WeddingDates
• AURORA DAWN REINKE
  Founder, Astrapto
• ALEXANDER DÖRSAM
  Head of Security Services at Antago GmbH
• INÊS DE CASTRO FERNANDES
  Ergonomics Specialist at Novility
• LENNERT DE JONG
  Commercial Director at citizenM
• MICHELE DE WITT
  Director at Horwath HTL South Africa
• DAPHNE DEKKER
  Lector Hospitality, Personality and Behaviour at Hotelschool The Hague
• JAVIER DELGADO MUERZA
  Head of Vertical Search for Southern Europe at Google
• CHRISTINE DEMEN MEIER
  Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at EHL
• DR. BASAK DENIZCI GUILLET
  Associate Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• RALF DENKE
  Vice President E-Business at Deutsche Hospitality
• THOMAS DI GIACOMO
  Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Swisscom Hospitality Services
• PHILIPPE DOIZELET
  Managing Partner, Horwath HTL
• NICOLAS DUBROCARD
  Senior advisor in sustainable tourism
• RANDY DURBAND
  CEO at Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC)
• DANIEL E. CRAIG
  Founder, Reknown
• ERIC EDEN
  Vice President of Marketing at Cvent
• ROGER EL KHOURY
  Managing Partner at NEORCHA sarl
• SUSIE ELLIS
  President of SpaFinder
• BERNARD ELLIS
  President and Founder at Lodgital Insights LLC
• CINDY ESTIS GREEN
  Co-founder and CEO, Kalibri Labs, LLC
• XAVIER ETCHEBERRIGARAY
  Former Corporate Director of Hotel Operations at Caesars Entertainment
• TAMMY FARLEY
  President & Co-Founder, The Rainmaker Group
• STEPHEN FARRANT
  Head of the International Tourism Partnership
• SARAH FARRELL
  Creative Director at transparenCI
• GENE FERENCE
  President at Ference Leadership & Strategy
• JOHN FONG
  Director of Marketing & International Relations and an Associate Professor at The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management (EAHM)
• NEIL FOSTER
  Hospitality Technology Executive & HFTP Global Secretary
• RICHARD GARLAND
  RGA Hotel and Leisure Consultants
• PETER GAUDET
  Senior Associate at HorwathHTL Canada
• PASCAL GAUTHIER
  Chief Human Resources Officer at EHL Group - Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
• STEFAN GÖSSLING
  Professor at the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University
• MATT GEBBIE
  Director, Pacific Asia at Horwath HTL
• ALEX GIBSON
  Senior Lecturer in Marketing in the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology
• ROBERT A. GILBERT
  President and CEO of the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI)
• SERGIO GIORGETTI
  Fieldwork Director at Horwath HTL
• TOM GOLDSCHEIDER
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• MARIUS GOMOLA
  Horwath HTL
• JAI GOVINDANI
  Chief Technology Officer at Red Planet Hotels
• NICOLAS GRAF
  Associate Dean at NYUSPS Jonathan M. Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism
• LOREN GRAY
  VP digital strategy for Standing Dog Interactive
• PAUL GREENEP
  Managing Director at iris Amsterdam
• KEITH GRUEN
  CEO / Geschäftsführer at Ysura GmbH
• MARIA JOSÉ GUTIÉRREZ
  Managing Director at Horwath HTL LatAm North
• ESTELLA HALE
  Product Manager - Windsurfer CRS at Sceptre Hospitality Resources
• MARK G. HALEY
  The Prism Partnership, LLC
• ANDRÉ HARMS
  Sustainability Engineer & Founder
• SUSAN HARMSWORTH
  Founder & CEO of ESPA International
• CLAIRE HARVEY
  Director of Development, Planning at Jumeirah Group
• RICHARD HATTER
  General Manager at Hotel ICON Hong Kong
• ANDREW HAZELTON
  Managing Director at AETHOS Consulting Group
• ERLEND HEIBERG
  Managing Director at Horwath HTL UK
• RUŽICA HERCEG
  Project Manager / Partner at Horwath HTL
• ARNAUD HERRMANN
  Sustainable Development Director at AccorHotels
• FRASER HICKOX
  Managing Director at The Conceptual Group
• ALVARO HIDALGO
  Managing Director, FIRST LOGIC Consulting - Chair HFTP´s GDPR Task Force
• DEMIAN HODARI
  Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Ecole Hôtelière Lausanne (EHL)
• KEVIN HOLT
  Owner at Co.Innovation Consulting
• SONJA HOLVERSON
  Professor of Marketing at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL)
• GREGG HOPKINS
  Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Intelity
• TED HORNER
  Information Technology and Services Consultant
• JAMES HOURAN
  Managing Director at AETHOS Consulting Group
• ALISON HOWLAND
  Hotel Yearbook
• FRAN HUGHES
  Director at International Tourism Partnership
• INGE HUIJBRECHTS
  Global VP Responsible Business at Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group
• KAM HUNG
  Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• PETER HVIDBERG
  Global Head, Travel & Hospitality Solutions at SGS
• LAURENT IDRAC
  Chief Information Officer at Accor
• SILVIJA ILIŠKOVIĆ BALAGOVIĆ
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• SORIN IONESCU
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• HEATHER JACOBS
  Global HR Leader at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
• REHAN JADDI
  SVP of Customer Support & Service Solutions at Agilysys
• MICHAEL JANSEN
  Student at The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management in Dubai
• VICKI JIAN
  Consulting Horwath China
• ALICE JONG
  Research Analyst at Phocuswright, Inc.
• BENJAMIN JOST
  CEO of TrustYou
• STEPHEN JOYCE
  President & CEO at Choice Hotels International, Inc.
• GRACE KANG
  Managing Partner at Greenview
• STEPHEN KAUFER
  President and CEO at TripAdvisor LLC
• KEITH KEFGEN
  Managing Director & CEO at AETHOS Consulting Group
• JOHN KENNEDY
  CEO & Co-Founder of Kennedy Andersson AB
• MIKE KISTNER
  CEO of RezNext
• HANS E. KOCH
  President of the European Hotel Managers Association (EHMA)
• OLAF KOCH
  CEO of METRO AG
• JOSÉ KOECHLIN
  Inkaterra
• FLORIAN KRIECHBAUMER
  VP for Operations & Development for INTEREL
• GERALD KROELL
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• GABRIEL C. M. LAEIS
  PhD Candidate at Massey University
• JENS LAPINSKI
  Managing Director at Techstars
• ENDA LARKIN
  Owner/Director at HTC Consulting
• JAMES LAW
  Founder & CEO at Cybertecture International
• STEVE LAWLER
  Managing Partner of St. Louis-based Opinions Incorporated
• KENNY LEE
  VP of Marketing at Revinate
• MARIA LEIFER
  Heads sales and marketing at Boutiquehotel Stadthalle, Vienna
• BENJAMIN LEPHILIBERT
  Managing Director LightBlue Environmental Consulting
• MICHAEL LEVIE
  Founding Partner at citizenM
• RITA LEVY
  Owner at Work4Stars
• MINA LI
  Senior Consultant at Horwath HTL
• LINDA LI
  Project director, Horwath HTL Beijing Office
• DAMIEN LITTLE
  Director of Horwath HTL, Asia
• SILVIJA LOVRETA
  Managing Partner at Horwath HTL Belgrade
• JEAN LUPINACCI
  Chief, ENERGY STAR Commercial and Industrial Branch the EPA
• DAVID MAAYANI
  CTO & Founder at GrayMatter Networks
• EKATERINA MARCHENKO
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• SHERRY MAREK
  Co Founder, Vice President at Datavision Technologies
• MACY MARVEL
  Consultant at Opus Hospitality
• MARGARET MASTROGIACOMO
  Vice President, Strategy at HeBS Digital
• LEE MCCABE
  Head of Travel at Facebook
• MICHAEL W. MCCORMICK
  Executive Director at the GBTA
• BRIAN MCGUINNESS
  SVP Specialty Select Brands at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
• KELLY MCGUIRE
  Vice President, Advanced Analytics, Wyndham Destination Network
• MARIANA MECHOSO SAFER
  Senior VP, Marketing at HeBS Digital
• FRANS MELISSEN
  Professor Sustainable Business Models, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences
• REMY MERCKX
  Vice-President of Marketing for Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group
• GABRIEL MESETH
  Communications and Public Relations Specialist
• CHRISTOS MICHAELIDES
  Executive Chairman at Cypronetwork
• NATHAN MIDGLEY
  Chief editor at Melt Content Marketing
• THOMAS MIELKE
  Managing Director, AETHOS Consulting Group London
• KRISTINA MILIN
  Senior Consultant at Horwath HTL Croatia
• IAN MILLAR
  Professor at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
• JANUSZ MITULSKI
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• LARRY MOGELONSKY
  Owner of Hotel Mogel Consulting Limited and the founder of LMA Communications Inc.
• RAM MOHAN
  Senior Vice President at GroupRevMax
• BÉATRICE MONTAGNIER
  Senior Consultant at Horwath HTL
• JOHN MONTGOMERY
  Managing Director, Horwath HTL
• ANA MORILLO
  Global Commercial Strategy & Pricing Director at NH Hotel Group
• DENIS MORISSET
  Executive Director - ESSEC MBA in International Luxury Brand Management
• PAUL MULCAHY
  Senior Vice President Commercial and member of the Executive Committee at Mövenpick Hotels and Resorts
• HILARY MURPHY
  Professor of Digital Marketing, Customer Information Management and Strategic IT at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
• SANJAY NADKARNI
  Director of Research & Innovation at Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management
• SANJAY NAGALIA
  Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of IDeaS Revenue Solutions
• MONIKA NERGER
  Global Chief Information Officer at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
• RALPH NEWMAN
  Senior VP Spa Division at WTS International
• TERRY NGAN
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• SAMANTHA NOLL
  Business Development Manager at Novility
• CHRISTINA NORTON
  Executive Administrator of Business Development at Revenue Management Solutions
• JIM NOVACK
  
• BRENDA O'NEIL
  Managing Director at Right
• PETER O’CONNOR
  Director of the MBA in Hospitality Management at ESSEC Business School
• MICHAEL O’HARE
  Managing Director, co-founder and partner of Horwath HTL Hungary & Russia
• JEROEN OSKAM
  Programme Manager European Tourism Futures Institute at Stenden University
• MANFRED OSTHUES
  Managing Partner at protel
• DARREN PANTO
  Business Development Director at iRiS Software
• MICHAELA PAPENHOFF
  Managing Director at h2c GmbH
• SOTERO PERALTA
  Executive Director of Horwath HTL, Dominican Republic
• SOPHIE PERRET
  Director at the HVS London office.
• DAN PHILLIPS
  Owner of Dare to Imagine
• MARTIN PIETZONKA
  Director and Senior Innovation Manager at the Innovation Center Connected Living
• LEE PILLSBURY
  Managing Director at Thayer Ventures
• CASIMIR PLATZER
  President at the International Hotel & Restaurant Association (IH&RA)
• STEPHANIE POUGNET, PHD
  Professor of Management at Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL)
• NICK PRICE
  CIO at citizenM
• JOEL PYSER
  Chief Operating Officer at Passkey International
• DOUGLAS QUINBY
  Vice President of Research at Phocuswright, Inc.
• ARMAND RABINOWITZ
  Senior Director of Strategy and Workgroups at HTNG
• NABIL M. RAMADHAN
  Group Chief Human Capital Officer for the Jumeirah Group
• ERIC RICAURTE
  Founder at Greenview
• DOUGLAS RICE
  CEO, Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG)
• MARION ROGER
  General Manager N America at Dayuse.com
• ERIC ROGERS
  Regional Head EMEA at FCS Computer Systems
• ANDREAS ROMAN
  Senior Consultant - Real Estate Advisory at KPMG Switzerland
• TERENCE RONSON
  Hospitality Professional, Technology Consultant, Public Speaker and Inventor
• ADRIAN RUCH
  Analyst at HVS Hodges Ward Elliott
• BRIAN SAAB
  Founder & Chief Marketing Officer at buuteeq
• GISLE SARHEIM
  
• GISLE SARHEIM
  VP Development - Hilton Grand Vacations, Asia Pacific
• YOURI SAWERSCHEL
  Strategy & Branding Consultant at Bridge.over
• JOS SCHAAP
  Founder and CEO of StayNTouch
• BRUNO H. SCHÖPFER
  Managing Director of Katara Hospitality Switzerland AG
• HANNES SCHIED
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• JAKOB SCHOFER
  Project and innovation manager at the Innovation Center Connected Living
• MICHAEL SCHUBACH
  Strategic Deployments and Program Management Director at Infor
• INGO SCHWEDER
  CEO and founder of GOCO Hospitality and Horwath HTL Health & Wellness
• ASHIL SANDEEP SHAH
  Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management
• TIM SHEA
  President of ASSA ABLOY Hospitality
• SAM SHELDON
  Consultant at Horwath HTL Singapore
• CHRIS SHEPPARDSON
  Founder of the Chess Group of Companies
• SONU SHIVDASANI
  Owner, Soneva Resorts
• PRAKASH SHUKLA
  Managing Partner with seed firm Solarex LLC
• PETE SIMPSON
  Senior VP Global Business Technology at protel hotelsoftware
• DAVID SJOLANDER
  Chief Operating Officer at Hotel Technology Next Generation
• KRYSTAL SOLARZANO
  Associate, WATG
• SARAH SONNE LARSEN
  Senior Hotel & Spa Consultant at Nordic Hotel Consulting
• SEN SOON-MUN
  Director - Kuala Lumpur / Pacific Asia at Horwath HTL
• CHARLOTTE SPECHT
  Hospitality Consultant - Horwath HTL
• DILEEP SREEDHARAN
  Information Security Director of the Jumeirah Group
• NAOMI STARK
  President & CEO at Stark Service Solutions, LLC
• MAX STARKOV
  President & CEO at HEBS Digital
• PETER STARKS
  President - REDglobal, Former Dean of Faculty The Hague Hotel School
• DAVID-LEONHARD STEINBAUER
  Director Hospitality Services at Unify GmbH & Co. KG
• SARA STEWART
  Hotel Yearbook
• TREVOR STUART-HILL
  Founder and president of Revenue Matters
• SUNDAR SWAMINATHAN
  Director, Marketing - Oracle Hospitality Global Business Unit
• KOJI TAKABAYASHI
  Managing Director at Horwath HTL, Japan
• ROHIT TALWAR
  Futurist, Speaker at Fast Future
• CHRISTOPHE TAYON
  Marketing Director at Cendyn
• SUZIE THOMPSON
  Vice President of Marketing at Red Carnation Hotels
• JENS THRAENHART
  Founder of Digital Innovation Asia
• TIM TOBIN
  Dean of Choice University
• MICHAEL TOEDT
  Managing Partner and CEO at TS&C GmbH
• SINISA TOPALOVIĆ
  Project Manager at Horwath HTL
• ROB TORRES
  Managing Director, Travel, at Google
• GUY-GEORGES TRIGALLEZ
  Co Founder/Owner No Dutch No Glory
• TONY TSE
  Assistant Professor and Program Director (Industry Partnerships) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s (PolyU) School of Hotel and Tourism Management
• ALEXANDRE TSUK
  Founder RefillMyBottle.com and Bookgreener.com
• DAVID TURNBULL
  Founder of SnapShot GmbH
• KRISTIAN VALK
  CEO & Founder Hotelchamp
• MARCO VAN BRUGGEN
  Senior consultant, Horwath HTL
• DIEDERIK VAN GOOL
  Business Development Manager Travel & Leisure EMEA at worldpay
• PAUL VAN MEERENDONK
  Director - Advisory Services at IDeaS Revenue Optimization
• RIKO VAN SANTEN
  Vice President Digital Strategy, Loyalty & Distribution at Kempinski Hotels
• JEANNE VARNEY
  Lecturer at The Hotel School in the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University
• TANYA VENEGAS
  Executive director and HFTP Fellow at the HFTP Research Institute
• ROHIT VERMA
  Professor at Cornell School of Hotel Administration
• VERENA VINKE
  Consultant at Detecon International GmbH
• FERNANDO VIVES
  Chief Commercial Officer and member of the Management Committee at NH Hotel Group
• WOODY WADE
  Scenario planning expert
• BILL WALSHE
  CEO at Viceroy Hotel Group
• MATTHEW WALSMAN
  Assistant Professor at Rutgers Business School
• RUTH WALTERS
  Garvey Schubert Barer; Hospitality Law and Intellectual Property
• TREVOR WARD
  Director, Head of Consultancy Services at Hotel Partners Africa
• MICHAELA WEHRLE
  Partner & Project Manager, Horwath HTL’s Swiss office
• ERIK WELLER
  Paradigm Executive at iTesso
• BRENNON WILLIAMS
  CEO & Founder at Iridium Systems and Robotics Corporation
• PER-ERIK WINTHER
  Formerly with Horwath HTL
• GLENN WITHIAM
  Director of publications for the Center for Hospitality Research
• FRANK WOLFE
  Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at HFTP
• LYLE WORTHINGTON
  Technology Executive and Consultant & Past President of HFTP Global
• JOEY YANIRE
  Assistant VP of mobile access lodging systems for dormakaba
• ALAN YOUNG
  President of Puzzle Partner Ltd.
• JING ZHU
  Founder and Chairperson at China Hospitality Technology Alliance（CHTA)