Interview: Sofel CEO Robert Gaymer-Jon - Hotelier Middle East

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• ROBERT GAYMER-JONES
• ROBERT GAYMER-JON
• ROBERT GAYMER-JON NAMED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (CEO) AT PANORAMA HOSPALY MANAGEMENT COMPANY SAN ANTON
• INTERVIEW: SOFEL CEO ROBERT GAYMER-JON
• ROBERT GAYMER-JON, CEO, SOFEL
• ROBERT GAYMER-JON HAS BEEN APPOTED CEO AT SOFEL WORLDWI PARIS
• ROBERT GAYMER JON
• INTERVIEW WH ROBERT GAYMER-JON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, SOFEL LUXURY HOTELS
• SOFEL CHIEF EXECUTIVE ROBERT GAYMER-JON

ROBERT GAYMER-JONES

Panorama Group has announced a jot venture agreement wh Blue Horse Hotel Management Company, namg Robert Gaymer-Jon Print and CEO of the newly formed Panorama Hospaly Management Company, wh a primary foc on luxury hotels worldwi.

ROBERT GAYMER-JON

Gaymer-Jon, the founr of Blue Horse Hotel Management Company, served as CEO for Sofel Luxury Hotels Paris om 2007 to 2014. In 2012, Gaymer-Jon was named CEO of the Year for the Luxury Indtry. Gaymer-Jon began his reer wh classil trag hotels Swzerland and has worked all over the world senr hotel management posns.

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ROBERT GAYMER-JON NAMED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (CEO) AT PANORAMA HOSPALY MANAGEMENT COMPANY SAN ANTON

Robert Gaymer-Jon is a graduate of Oxford Brook. One such succs story is that of Sofel Worldwi CEO Robert Gaymer-Jon, who veloped a reer om workg a hotel kchen to leadg the operatns of a multi-natnal luxury hotel cha.

INTERVIEW: SOFEL CEO ROBERT GAYMER-JON

Havg graduated om universy wh a gree hotel management, Gaymer-Jon began his reer as a chef, and worked for a range of Michel starred rtrants and hotels across the UK.

ROBERT GAYMER-JON, CEO, SOFEL

Havg ma his move out of the kchen as an F&B manager, Gaymer-Jon moved to assistant manager and general manager posns, before eventually ascendg to the role of the vice print of European operatns for Marrtt Internatnal. It was this opportuny to re-terpret and nstct an entire hotel brand that most appealed to Gaymer-Jon’ creative si, and which somewhat surprisgly had many parallels to his past life the kchen.

ROBERT GAYMER-JON HAS BEEN APPOTED CEO AT SOFEL WORLDWI PARIS

Therefore, on takg the role, the first em on Gaymer-Jon’ agenda was to assemble his management team and tour every Sofel hotel, to first get a feel for the brand and get his first imprsns of the size of task he had taken on. While evaluatg each hotel Gaymer-Jon’ team began g a ‘luxury x’, based on different factors such lotn, clientele and whether the necsary vtment was available to upgra the hotel to the rrect standard of luxury.

As part of the brand’s ph to KSA, Sofel recently announced the signg of a new property the cy of Jeddah, due to open 2014, while plans ntue for the openg of s first hotel Riyadh 2015 and Gaymer-Jon hop to announce plans for a first hotel Mec “soon”. “KSA is important not only bee of relig tourism and the bs market, ” explas Gaymer-Jon, “but also bee of the emergg number of Sdi leisure travellers visg lotns around the world.

However, Gaymer-Jon is also well aware that, due to the reposng and rtcturg procs, which saw the brand shed a number of hotels across the Middle East, Sofel uld be nsired to be behd other global luxury hotel brands, some of which already have a large prence the regn. Gettg tired, seems, is not somethg that Gaymer-Jon ever seems to worry about.

ROBERT GAYMER JON

A procs that Gaymer-Jon sists will be okg up a storm the Middle East for some time to e. Robert Gaymer-Jon is a source of spiratn for many the hotel dtry, but who has spurred him to succs? Sofel's Worldwi CEO Robert Gaymer-Jon tells why he shuttered sr of hotels to get the brand’s posng right and why even the Arab Sprg uprisg don’t ter his upg expansn plansRobert Gaymer-Jon ont of the “Life is Magnifique” mpaign shot by Tim Walker 2008Sofel’s Worldwi CEO Robert Gaymer-Jon tells why he shuttered sr of hotels to get the brand’s posng right and why even the Arab Sprg uprisg don’t ter his upg expansn plansPARIS – It has been four years sce Robert Gaymer-Jon was first hered as COO and charged wh reposng Sofel to a brand wh exclively five-star hotels at the very top end of the luxury market.

Gaymer-Jon. Gaymer-Jon’s rebrandg missn is plete – and duly reward wh the ultimate promotn – we sat down wh the CEO to talk shop…“ This was a difficult cisn to take but we felt that was the only way to “pne and grow ”In reposng the brand, you rced Sofel’s re portfol om 206 to 120 properti – that was que a cull. Mr Gaymer-Jon joed the Group 2007 as Chief Operatg Officer Sofel Worldwi after holdg a variety of senr operatnal posns, notably wh Marrtt Internatnal.

INTERVIEW WH ROBERT GAYMER-JON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, SOFEL LUXURY HOTELS

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Gaymer-Jon sat down wh Edor at Large Johanna Jachill last week at Virtuoso's Travel Mart nference Las Vegas to discs the pany's reposng as a luxury brand, and why women love his hotels. In November 2007, Robert Gaymer-Jon beme chief operatg officer of Sofel Luxury Hotels, tasked wh tablishg the cha as a separate bs un to parent pany Acr, reposng as a lear the luxury segment and lnchg two new sister brands – Legend and So.

“When I me we had 206 hotels wh the Sofel work om the good and the betiful to the not-so-betiful, so we brought that number down, ” rells Gaymer-Jon.