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Jonathan is one of the founders and organisers of multiple leading international conferences for the hospitality industry including AHIC (UAE); AHIF (Africa); SHIC (Saudi) and SAHIC (Latin America). Jonathan branched out into aviation and F&B, through AviaDev and GRIF. In 2020, the company pivoted to virtual and hybrid conferences with the launch of the hospitalitytomorrow.com series and the Future Hospitality Summit for the G20 Saudi Secretariat.

In 1997, Jonathan co-founded the annual IHIF (Berlin) which today attracts over 2,000 delegates. Earlier in his career, he worked for real estate consultants CBRE & Hotel Partners, hotel advisors PKF and hotel operator Forte & Holiday Inns. Jonathan was a board director and co-founder of STR Global until 2019 and is on the advisory board of inHovate and Hotel Swaps.

He also sits on the Advisory Board for RAK TDA, a member of WiH and is a Trustee of Future Talent, a charity that provides financial support to gifted young musicians.

A committed Tourism & Development practitioner, Anita is the Founder and President of ANITA MENDIRATTA & Associates (first launched as CACHET CONSULTING), a highly respected and trusted international consulting firm based in London, UK.

With over two decades of global professional working and living experience, Anita’s global hands-on, cross-cultural, cross-industry experience in both public and private sectors has created an innate ability to feel the ‘heartbeat’ of societies – the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental dynamics impacting and inspiring nations facing change, including confronting challenge. Importantly, with proven agility and acumen in mobilising impact across diplomatic, governmental and business spheres, her exceptional skills in assisting clients in defining and mobilising critical principles and practices vital to individual and collective impact has earned her the trust needed to work directly with leadership teams to unlock higher levels of performance.

For this reason, Anita is highly sought after as both a strategist & advisor in the areas of national growth, development, and often, recovery. She is honoured to be:

• • SPECIAL ADVISOR to the Secretary General of the UNWTO http://www2.unwto.org/
  • STRATEGIC ADVISOR TO CNN INTERNATIONAL in the area of Tourism & Economic Development, operating as lead Consultant of CNN’s T.A.S.K. GROUP across all regions of the world. http://www.cnnmediainfo.com/task/
  • STRATEGIC RESOURCE TO THE WORLD BANK, WTTC, IATA and ATAG in Tourism, Aviation and Development

Increasingly, Anita is called upon to be the bridge between government and business, assisting leaders to address conflict and find common ground to enable advancement of common agendas, breaking through areas of contrast and/or conflict to realise shared aspirations.

Paul Gardiner is the CEO of Mantis Collection (internationally), a hotel group made up of eco-lodges and hotels located on all seven continents. His career began as a game ranger in South Africa in 1994 on his father’s wildlife reserve called Shamwari. Today his responsibility with his team based out of the UK is to grow the Mantis brand beyond just Africa. They have opportunities in the Middle East, Cuba, China, Montenegro, the Swiss Alps, the South of France and the UK that they’re currently exploring. With the world going crazy for glamping and eco experiences they’re well placed to capitalize on the opportunity considering they already have experience in developing, operating and marketing these products so successfully throughout Africa for over 25 years. In recent years Paul has also struck up a relationship with the television personality and adventurer, Bear Grylls. Mantis Media is the creative arm of Mantis Collection and they’re responsible for taking what Bear does so well on television and bringing it to life for kids, adults, corporates etc. Essentially they’re responsible for all Bear’s location based entertainment. They recently partnered with Merlin Entertainments to develop a $22m Bear Grylls Adventure Park in the UK.

Mantis has recently partnered with Accor Hotels, together they have a 50/50 JV. The JV allows Mantis amazing distribution via their new “big brother” and it gives Accor a stronghold in Sub Saharan Africa where Mantis are particularly strong – so it’s a win win for both. Together the JV has already launched the Conservation Community Fund Africa (CCFA) This grant-giving Foundation is registered in South Africa as a non-profit company and has uniquely brought together three internationally admired wildlife conservation organisations as its Founding members: Wilderness Foundation Africa, Tusk Trust and African Parks. The Mantis Accor partnerships intentions are two fold, the one is to further grow and develop the Mantis brand across Africa, and the second is to take the unique Mantis eco lodge DNA model to other amazing parts of the world.

Although Paul is UK based he spends a third of the year in South Africa – he and his father are the driving force behind a new pioneering initiative which they’re launching at their game reserve in South Africa which will see the creation of the first ever Eco Lodge Innovation Hub. Paul has also launched his very own media platform to help spread the word of the amazing work that people from all walks of life are involved in, within the world of conservation and eco-tourism.

As the Founder of The Trusted Executive Foundation, John and his team help board leaders across all sectors adapt to the ‘new normal’ of trust-based leadership using the unique models and tools from his acclaimed books, ‘The Trusted Executive’ and ‘Challenging Coaching’. ‘The Trusted Executive' combines prize-winning research to create the Nine Habits of Trust at Aston Business School, together with the learnings from John’s successes (and failures!) as a former FTSE 100 international managing director, serial entrepreneur and executive coach to CEOs and elite sports leaders. John’s work that has been featured in Forbes, BBC News, HuffPost, the FT and The Sunday Times.

Mark Robb has had a commercially measurable impact on some of the UK’s largest brands over the last twenty years. Specialising in how Leaders create a culture to drive staff engagement to increase customer delight. He designs and delivers whole business cultural evolution programmes. Using arresting and memorable techniques as well as cutting edge research and psychometrics. His no-nonsense practical and commercially focused approach challenges and equips people to harnesses the huge but often dormant power that lies within them.

Ashley Giles the current Managing Director of England men’s cricket and former Warwickshire and England first class cricketer will host a masterclass on how to lead a high-performance team during difficult times. Sporting events have been hit very hard in 2020 but England managed to deliver all their games despite audience free venues. Ashley will talk about managing teams in bubbles, dealing with difficult situations and ultimately underline how leadership is dealing with relationships, at its very heart.

The CEO of Kerten Hospitality, Marloes Knippenberg, has an innovative mindset that has established the organization as a disruptive, dynamic international hospitality group dedicated to the management of mixed-use developments in key global destinations.

Her journey in the hospitality field started with Hilton where Marloes held senior operational and commercial management positions for over a decade. At the helm of Kerten Hospitality, which she developed and launched with the backing of Kerten, Ireland-based investment vehicle, Marloes has grown the organization’s operational and pipeline portfolio from one brand in one country to 10 aspirational lifestyle-driven concepts in 35 development projects across 3 continents.

Marloes continuously pioneers the role of innovation across the larger ecosystem with the aim to establish an industry platform where technology, hospitality and sustainability coexist and evolve for the benefit of consumers, investors and businesses.

She is on the Advisory Boards of flagship events like IHIDC – Vienna, AHIC - UAE, HITEC - Dubai, IHIF - Berlin and is frequently invited to contribute Though Leadership to industry forums: ITHIC - Italy, SHIC - Saudi Arabia, HOST – London and The Retail Summit, Dubai. She has been a mentor for students in hospitality schools and was recently on the jury panel of the GENIO Innovation Summit by Hotelschool The Hague.

Marloes has been listed in the Hotelier Middle East Power List 2019 ranking the region’s most influential industry professionals. Most recently, she was listed in Hotelier Middle East 25 'women in hospitality power list' is a result of those women who are making waves in the industry. She is the Winner of CEO Today’s 2020 Business Women of the Year recognition in hospitality.

The CEO of Kerten Hospitality, Marloes Knippenberg, has an innovative mindset that has established the organization as a disruptive, dynamic international hospitality group dedicated to the management of mixed-use developments in key global destinations.

Her journey in the hospitality field started with Hilton where Marloes held senior operational and commercial management positions for over a decade. At the helm of Kerten Hospitality, which she developed and launched with the backing of Kerten, Ireland-based investment vehicle, Marloes has grown the organization’s operational and pipeline portfolio from one brand in one country to 10 aspirational lifestyle-driven concepts in 35 development projects across 3 continents.

Marloes continuously pioneers the role of innovation across the larger ecosystem with the aim to establish an industry platform where technology, hospitality and sustainability coexist and evolve for the benefit of consumers, investors and businesses.

She is on the Advisory Boards of flagship events like IHIDC – Vienna, AHIC - UAE, HITEC - Dubai, IHIF - Berlin and is frequently invited to contribute Though Leadership to industry forums: ITHIC - Italy, SHIC - Saudi Arabia, HOST – London and The Retail Summit, Dubai. She has been a mentor for students in hospitality schools and was recently on the jury panel of the GENIO Innovation Summit by Hotelschool The Hague.

Marloes has been listed in the Hotelier Middle East Power List 2019 ranking the region’s most influential industry professionals. Most recently, she was listed in Hotelier Middle East 25 'women in hospitality power list' is a result of those women who are making waves in the industry. She is the Winner of CEO Today’s 2020 Business Women of the Year recognition in hospitality.

Mark Robb has had a commercially measurable impact on some of the UK’s largest brands over the last twenty years. Specialising in how Leaders create a culture to drive staff engagement to increase customer delight. He designs and delivers whole business cultural evolution programmes. Using arresting and memorable techniques as well as cutting edge research and psychometrics. His no-nonsense practical and commercially focused approach challenges and equips people to harnesses the huge but often dormant power that lies within them.

Ashley Giles the current Managing Director of England men’s cricket and former Warwickshire and England first class cricketer will host a masterclass on how to lead a high-performance team during difficult times. Sporting events have been hit very hard in 2020 but England managed to deliver all their games despite audience free venues. Ashley will talk about managing teams in bubbles, dealing with difficult situations and ultimately underline how leadership is dealing with relationships, at its very heart.

Minhaz lobbied his first MP aged 10, spurring his election aged 13 as a Youth MP. By age 15, he had spoken at the Dispatch Box in the House of Commons. After representing the views of millions of young people through the press and as a Youth MP, he was appointed to represent the UK Youth at the 71st UN General Assembly. While at University, Minhaz founded a marketing agency to amplify brands across the globe through organic conversations. After establishing offices in London and reaching over 400 million people with clients like 'The Times' and 'Reed Smith', he stepped back as CEO, remaining as a Founding Director.

In 2020, HRH The Duchess of Kent and Nicholas Robinson appointed him as CEO of the royal charity Future Talent, represented by Ambassadors such as Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Dame Judi Dench and Sting.

Jonathan is one of the founders and organisers of multiple leading international conferences for the hospitality industry including AHIC (UAE); AHIF (Africa); SHIC (Saudi) and SAHIC (Latin America). Jonathan branched out into aviation and F&B, through AviaDev and GRIF. In 2020, the company pivoted to virtual and hybrid conferences with the launch of the hospitalitytomorrow.com series and the Future Hospitality Summit for the G20 Saudi Secretariat.

In 1997, Jonathan co-founded the annual IHIF (Berlin) which today attracts over 2,000 delegates. Earlier in his career, he worked for real estate consultants CBRE & Hotel Partners, hotel advisors PKF and hotel operator Forte & Holiday Inns. Jonathan was a board director and co-founder of STR Global until 2019 and is on the advisory board of inHovate and Hotel Swaps.

He also sits on the Advisory Board for RAK TDA, a member of WiH and is a Trustee of Future Talent, a charity that provides financial support to gifted young musicians.

Claus Raasted has worked with designing extraordinary experiences for almost a quarter of a century. Today, he serves as the Director for The College of Extraordinary Experiences, is a Coach at McKinsey & Company, and hosts the podcast ”The Business of Extraordinary Experiences”. He is also a prolific author, with 30 books to his name, and has just finished ”The Innovation Cycle”. Raasted also has a past in reality TV, but these days, who hasn't?

An evangelist for the power of experiential branding, David Keen is a successful entrepreneur and leading strategist for the travel and hospitality industries. Over the last 20 years, David has published and been interviewed in dozens of publications and has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences, tradeshows and professional events.

David was born in London and educated in New York at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. After embarking on his career in London and the United States, David ventured to Asia as a writer and editor, travelling widely in the region.

In 1996, David settled in Bangkok, where he founded QUO, a brand strategy and integrated communications agency. As CEO, David leads a team of over 90 esteemed professionals from around the globe as they use their extensive experience to craft brands that deeply resonate with today’s consumers. Whether branding nations, luxury hospitality giants, high-flying airlines, funky design hotels, adventurous travel companies or elegant boutique resorts, QUO brings ideas to life.

David inspires with his story of how he overcame a seriously abusive childhood to become a hugely successful adult. This is the theme of his #1 bestselling book. He links the lessons he learned to the specific problems that your team are facing in your industry. He shares the strategies he has honed and developed to become one of the best practitioners in history in his chosen field of excellence, memory. He ensures the techniques are transferable so that your can implement them within you team.

Jonathan is one of the founders and organisers of multiple leading international conferences for the hospitality industry including AHIC (UAE); AHIF (Africa); SHIC (Saudi) and SAHIC (Latin America). Jonathan branched out into aviation and F&B, through AviaDev and GRIF. In 2020, the company pivoted to virtual and hybrid conferences with the launch of the hospitalitytomorrow.com series and the Future Hospitality Summit for the G20 Saudi Secretariat.

In 1997, Jonathan co-founded the annual IHIF (Berlin) which today attracts over 2,000 delegates. Earlier in his career, he worked for real estate consultants CBRE & Hotel Partners, hotel advisors PKF and hotel operator Forte & Holiday Inns. Jonathan was a board director and co-founder of STR Global until 2019 and is on the advisory board of inHovate and Hotel Swaps.

He also sits on the Advisory Board for RAK TDA, a member of WiH and is a Trustee of Future Talent, a charity that provides financial support to gifted young musicians.

A committed Tourism & Development practitioner, Anita is the Founder and President of ANITA MENDIRATTA & Associates (first launched as CACHET CONSULTING), a highly respected and trusted international consulting firm based in London, UK.

With over two decades of global professional working and living experience, Anita’s global hands-on, cross-cultural, cross-industry experience in both public and private sectors has created an innate ability to feel the ‘heartbeat’ of societies – the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental dynamics impacting and inspiring nations facing change, including confronting challenge. Importantly, with proven agility and acumen in mobilising impact across diplomatic, governmental and business spheres, her exceptional skills in assisting clients in defining and mobilising critical principles and practices vital to individual and collective impact has earned her the trust needed to work directly with leadership teams to unlock higher levels of performance.

For this reason, Anita is highly sought after as both a strategist & advisor in the areas of national growth, development, and often, recovery. She is honoured to be:

• • SPECIAL ADVISOR to the Secretary General of the UNWTO http://www2.unwto.org/
  • STRATEGIC ADVISOR TO CNN INTERNATIONAL in the area of Tourism & Economic Development, operating as lead Consultant of CNN’s T.A.S.K. GROUP across all regions of the world. http://www.cnnmediainfo.com/task/
  • STRATEGIC RESOURCE TO THE WORLD BANK, WTTC, IATA and ATAG in Tourism, Aviation and Development

Increasingly, Anita is called upon to be the bridge between government and business, assisting leaders to address conflict and find common ground to enable advancement of common agendas, breaking through areas of contrast and/or conflict to realise shared aspirations.

Wes Paul has had an extensive career in finance, starting with J.P. Morgan & Co in 1975 where he was a Managing Director and held a variety of senior global positions in Debt, Currency, Research, Emerging Markets and Private Equity. He went on to become the firm’s Global Head of Investments with total oversight and responsibility for the company’s real estate portfolio. Wes has a critical focus on disruptive technologies, macroeconomic and capital markets and catalysing opportunities. Wes is also Chairman and CEO of Tellus Matrix LLP and sits on the advisory boards of a number of start-up companies, charities and institutes.

Lissa Engle is Managing Director of Berkeley Capital Group ['BCG'] an agile, innovative, turnkey partner for global investors on sustainable hospitality investments and developments. BCG is an independent private company which ensures the firm is brand agnostic, working with all niche and global brands across its developments, with currently circa 800 keys in the pipeline across the UK and Europe.

Lissa is also Founder and CEO of WiH Global [‘WiH’], a not-for-profit and best-in-class global community who believe that by collaborating, we can have greater impact and raise the game to create a hospitality industry that is more diverse and inclusive.

Lissa has advised on circa £5bn of real estate and has 20 years of investment and development experience. She is Chair of GRI’s Hospitality Committee connecting C-Suite real estate and infrastructure leaders from around the world, Chair of the Steering Committee for UK’s landmark Hotel Financing Report and on the Advisory Board of AHC. She is also Member of Forbes Business Council. As knowledge share and collaboration are fundamental to BCG, Lissa is also host to BCG Talks, a podcast series which includes ‘Leadership Series’ interviewing global leaders in hospitality.

Lissa received her MBA from INSEAD and BA from Dartmouth College, studying also at Oxford and University of Munich as German-American Federation scholar. She speaks French, German and Italian and previously worked in Strategy Consulting and Private Equity.

Razia Aziz is on a lifelong personal and professional journey to ‘crack the code’ of human nature through her work as a performing artist, writer, speaker, coach, facilitator, trainer & consultant, body work practitioner, interfaith minister & spiritual counsellor. The youngest child of a family which, like so many others, crossed continents on the great waves of 20^th century history in search of a better life, equality, diversity & social justice were in her DNA. She has expressed that DNA through activism, study, spiritual inquiry and consultancy. Razia co-founded the Equality Academy in 2010. She and her co-Director, Jess Taylor, foster conscious, inclusive leadership in a diverse, and increasingly fractured, world by supporting individuals, relationships, teams and organisations in their search for wise, compassionate and authentic ways to meet today’s challenges. Razia lives in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the South Downs of England with her partner, son and their four leggeds, and is most at home meditating, wandering in nature, cooking and eating with friends and making, or immersed in, music.

John Tanzella is the President/CEO of the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association (IGLTA), a non-profit tourism association that is the global leader in advancing LGBTQ+ travel. IGLTA is headquartered in Florida, USA, with additional staff located in Washington D.C., Madrid, São Paulo, Bogota, Paris, London and Cape Town. IGLTA's network is made up of more than 5,000 tourism business professionals in approximately 80 countries. In marketing its tourism industry business members, IGLTA reached more than 4 million unique travelers in 2019. The IGLTA Foundation was created five years ago as the philanthropic arm of the association, supporting the tourism industry with research, education and developing future LGBTQ+ tourism leaders. IGLTA is the only LGBTQ+ Affiliate Member of the The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. Tanzella serves on the Board of Directors for the Stonewall National Museum & Archives (U.S). Born in Boston to Italian immigrant parents, he attended the University of Georgia and resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

www.iglta.org

Sophie Le Ray is an entrepreneur, an author and an experienced business facilitator.

In 2003, she co-founded Naseba, a business information company specialised in supporting enterprise development in emerging markets. She was instrumental in its international expansion, and in accompanying the group when it went public in 2006. She was appointed CEO in 2009 and was responsible for its strategic development and overseeing its operations worldwide until 2019.

For 15 years, Naseba pioneered in growth markets: Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, China. First European company to host a business summit in Saudi Arabia, in Algeria, Libya, Irak, the Naseba team conceptualised hundreds of summits from Healthcare to Fintech, Real estate to Renewable energy and facilitated $Billions of business transactions.

Sophie is the founder and spokesperson for the WIL Economic Forum, the first platform for business women leaders in the Middle East and Asia. Based in Dubai for over a decade, she is the co-author of award winner ‘Game Changers: How Women in the Arab World Are Changing the Rules and Shaping the Future’, published in May 2016.

She now lives in Europe where she regularly speaks in global conferences on entrepreneurship and women economic empowerment.

She is the co-founder of EVE List, a global Not for Profit organisation dedicated to connect and equip rising professional women and support organisations aiming at reaching gender parity in senior management.

Marcus Child has had a remarkable and uplifting impact on the people and the results of many of the UK’s best-known businesses during the past twenty years. Marcus' emphasis on people exploiting the workplace as an environment for self-improvement as well as commercial success means that the new habits, he trains are practiced in the minds and relationships of people - within and without work - long after his programmes are complete. He regularly speaks on conference platforms and has advised politicians, sportspeople and CEOs around the world.

As the Founder of The Trusted Executive Foundation, John and his team help board leaders across all sectors adapt to the ‘new normal’ of trust-based leadership using the unique models and tools from his acclaimed books, ‘The Trusted Executive’ and ‘Challenging Coaching’. ‘The Trusted Executive' combines prize-winning research to create the Nine Habits of Trust at Aston Business School, together with the learnings from John’s successes (and failures!) as a former FTSE 100 international managing director, serial entrepreneur and executive coach to CEOs and elite sports leaders. John’s work that has been featured in Forbes, BBC News, HuffPost, the FT and The Sunday Times.

“One of the top 100 thinkers of our time” by Executive Excellence magazine

• Voted “One of the Top 10 Global Thinkers” by HR Magazine

• Selected as “Thought Leader of the Year” in Hong Kong

• “Millennial Thought Leader” in Singapore

Dr. Paul G. Stoltz is considered the world’s leading authority on the integration and application of grit and resilience. He is author of five international bestselling books on the subject—printed in 17 languages—including the top selling business book in China, and was voted by HR Magazine as “One of the Top 10 most influential global thinkers,” and by Executive Excellence as “One of the 100 Most Influential Thinkers of Our Time.” In newest book, GRIT—The New Science of What it Takes to Persevere, Flourish, Succeed, he pioneers the first validated construct and method in existence for growing both the quantity and quality of one’s GRIT.

Dr. Stoltz has served as faculty for MIT’s acclaimed entrepreneurship program and for Carnegie Mellon’s distinguished Global Leaders Program, where his AQ and GRIT-related methods and assessments have been used to equip tomorrow’s leaders and entrepreneurs. He also serves on various boards, including advisory board for DocuSign, Board of Directors for Global Mentors Network, and several companies focused on earth rejuvenating technologies.

Harvard Business School has selected and incorporated Dr. Stoltz’s Adversity Quotient® tools and methods into it’s top-rated MBA and Executive Education programs and is featuring Dr. Stoltz’s newest work on GRIT in a new video series for Harvard Business Review. Dr. Stoltz has also been a member of Stanford University’s Distinguished Leaders Lecture Series, was selected as the Millennial Thinker for Singapore, “Thought Leader of the Year” in Hong Kong, 3940 Broad Street Suite 7-385 San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 info@peaklearning.com 805.595.7775 2 and is a top-rated international faculty member for the Young Presidents’ Organization. He has guest lectured for Princeton, INSEAD, and Cornell, and has been a featured blogger and author for both the Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today. Dr. Stoltz has been the founder and CEO of PEAK Learning, Inc., a global research and consulting firm, since 1987, through which he coaches, consults, teaches, and collaborates with top leaders, thinkers, and influencers within a broad range of organizations from start-ups and NGO’s to the Fortune 500 on six continents. He is also the founder and managing director of the GRIT Institute and Global Resilience Institute, both worldwide research collaboratives for exploring and advancing the frontiers of human endeavor.

Today, GRIT and AQ are the most widely adopted methods of their kind in the world for measurably enhancing one’s resilience, agility, and GRIT—currently in use by industry-leading companies, top institutions, and many governments in 137 countries across six continents.

Dr. Stoltz is frequently featured in the world’s top media. Examples include the major news shows CNN, CNBC, ABC, Sky News, Business News Network, NBC Nightly News, Public Broadcast Service (PBS), as well as the biggest daytime shows such as the Today Show, and multiple appearances on Oprah. You will also find Dr. Stoltz quoted in the major press, worldwide, including Wall Street Journal, Harvard Management Update, Investor’s Business Daily, Yahoo! Finance, Asia 21, Inc., Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Singapore Straits Times, The Australian Financial Review, Success Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Boss Magazine, The Drucker Foundation’s prestigious Leader to Leader and other publications. Dr. Stoltz coaches the U.S. Olympic Team, has served as faculty for MIT’s acclaimed entrepreneurship program and for Carnegie Mellon’s distinguished Global Leaders Program, where his AQ and GRIT-related methods and assessments have been used to equip tomorrow’s leaders and entrepreneurs.

Dr. Stoltz received his bachelor’s degree in Organizational Communication and Economics from the University of California, as well as his business, leadership, and social sciences interdisciplinary master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. PEAK Learning’s international headquarters is situated in the coastal mountains of San Luis Obispo, California, where Dr. Stoltz resides with his family, who were honored by USA Today as “America’s Most Creative Family.”

Senior hospitality executive with 30+ years of international experience in mature and emerging markets with a diversified portfolio of chairman, non-executive director and strategic advisory roles. Former CEO of Radisson Hotels, CEO Arabella Hospitality Group and President Hilton Europe & Africa. Inspirational leader, mentor and coach - passionate about sustainable and purposeful business practices, driven by making a difference through people.

Wolfgang currently serves as:

• Chairman of the Board, Hotel School The Hague (NL)
• Chairman of Board, International Tourism Partnership (UK)
• Non-Executive Director, Brandmark Collective (NL)
• Non-Executive Director and Strategic Advisor, Guestline Hospitality Software (UK)
• Senior Advisor to the Board, Radisson Hospitality Group AB (Belgium)

Fuad Sajdi is a seasoned professional and global citizen. Fuad’s dynamic career is what led him to this current and revolutionary path to become Founder and CEO of Toggle Market. His unconventional perspective and non-linear career helped shape his values and ideals, instilling in him a moral obligation to always look at the big picture. Corporate Social Responsibility, environmental and social governance serve as a fundamental pillar in everything that he does.

As a Civil Engineer, emergent Technologist and former equities trader, Fuad worked in versatile sectors spanning finance, water and transport infrastructure, public utilities, research and procurement; working across developed and emerging markets including East and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, the Levant, UAE and the UK. His career launched in the United Kingdom where he spent 5 years in London working as Liquidity Risk Analyst and Portfolio Manager within the Finance sector with a particular focus on hedge and pension funds.

During his time in Central Africa and the Levant, Fuad managed the Business Development of water and transport infrastructure projects and public utilities in the region. His experience in Finance inspired him to look beyond conventional monetary systems giving a whole new meaning to credit, cross border transactions and the social contract of money.

His experience in leading multi-sector businesses to develop and expand their footprint across emerging markets and by paying special attention to the micro and macro aspects of business is what inspired the creation of Toggle Market.

Fuad’s has been taking calculated risks throughout his professional journey which has brought him to the forefront of the procurement industry as a thought leader and intellectual analyst.

“The world is something we make, and could just as easily be made different” is a motto Fuad lives by.

Fuad has a Civil and Environmental Engineering degree from the University of Brighton.