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Dr. Valentina Clergue is currently working at EHL Lausanne, Switzerland.

Professor at Hotelschool the Hague, Hospitality Business School
Active in the hospitality industry since almost twenty years, born and raised in a hospitality family in Amsterdam and a proud alumna of Hotelschool the Hague.
Yasemin has a work experience in Mandarin Oriental and Four Seasons in New York City and Istanbul.
Working for Hotelschool the Hague since 2014 within the Marketing & Innovation faculty where she host, design and implement courses around the topics of Marketing, Branding, Innovation and Sales.
Yasemin is a Research Fellow at the Hospitality Research Center within the chair City Hospitality & City Marketing, and a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam with studying the topic “Mindfulness as influence to the Tourist Experience”.
She launched her own company Anicha Consultancy on Hospitality Experience Consulting in 2016, where support, assist and ultimately inspire companies to create unique, authentic and memorable guest experiences.

Brand and Hospitality Strategist

• A Renaissance man by design and a strategist by profession, Matthias has created, accelerated and transformed brands for the last 20 years.
• He held Managing Director positions at the much-awarded creative agencies Pixelpark and Scholz & Friends and is advising global heavyweights across all industries, from automotive to aviation, real estate to telecommunications, mobility, healthcare and more. He has consulted 10 of the 30 German DAX companies throughout his career.
• Matthias joined the world of hospitality 15 years ago as Director of Global Marketing and Product Development at Design Hotels, shaping the personality and appearance of the brand to this day. Since opening his independent practice in 2007 he has been behind some of the most exciting hotel projects in the industry, using his unique talent to anticipate the big shifts in consumer behaviour and translating this into concepts have been both economically successful and critically acclaimed.
• References range from the experimental pop up hotel to the billion-dollar-valued global hotel group, including investor darlings like citizenM, 25hours Hotels and Ruby Hotels as well as some of the finest luxury properties in the world like Berlins Das Stue or The Setai in Miami.
• Matthias is working on multiple levels of brand development & strategy, product innovation and customer experience. His radical-brand approach is always deeply consumer centric, often disruptive and never boring. He lives in Munich.

Expert and consultant in hotel revenue management

• Based in Berlin, David is an established hospitality, travel and technology leader, supporting a variety of media and technology companies in a partner, advisory & board capacity following his exit from SnapShot, the hotel data platform in Summer 2018.
• Having been involved with hotel revenue management, distribution and data analytics for more than 20 years, David has worked to develop from grassroots some of the most forward thinking hotels and hotel companies such as designhotels, citizenM and 25hours to name a few.
• In addition to speaking at events around the world, David’s passion for education has led him to work with various universities including ESSEC, University of Surrey and Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) as well as take an active role with industry associations including HEDNA (Co-Chair Hotel Analytics Workgroup) and HSMAI (Revenue Management Advisory Board).
• Originally from Glasgow, David was appointed as a Global Scot in October 2018, in co-ordination with Scotland’s investment & innovation hub in Berlin, contributing to a worldwide network of entrepreneurial and inspirational business leaders, dedicated to supporting Scotland’s most ambitious companies.

CEO of AZIMUT Hotels

Since December 2018, he has been the CEO of AZIMUT Hotels chain.
Maxim Brodovsky has more than 20 years of experience in the hotel business.
After graduating with honors from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, he began his career in 1999 as a night auditor at the 5* Marriott Moscow Grand Hotel and in 2007 took the position of regional financial controller of six hotels in Moscow under the management of Interstate.
Since August 2012, Maxim Brodovsky has been the General Manager of the Holiday Inn Moscow Lesnaya Hotel, and in 2014 another Moscow hotel of the chain, Holiday Inn Moscow Suschevsky, came under his leadership.
In September 2016, Maxim headed the hotel, which was the first in his career – the Marriott Moscow Grand Hotel. Since 2017, he has been the Chief Operating Officer of AZIMUT Hotels and was responsible for strategic planning of the company’s activities, general personnel management, as well as control of the network’s business processes.

Генеральный менеджер, спикер, тренер в Luxury Hotels/Resorts