Giornotte is ready for fit-out, with its panelled ceiling, wooden floor and rustic pillars creating a homely ambience.
Meet the team
Pep Lozano
General Manager
Pep began his professional career at Hotel Arts in Barcelona, a Ritz-Carlton managed property, in various food and beverage roles. The experience in this department enabled his transfer to The Ritz-Carlton, Washington D.C. as the director of food and beverage in its opening phase in 2000.
Pep then returned to Hotel Arts for a series of consecutive leadership roles, culminating in his promotion to hotel manager in 2006.
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A year later, he was appointed general manager of Abama Golf & Spa Resort, another Ritz-Carlton managed property, in Tenerife, Spain. He has also participated in the successful openings of various Ritz-Carlton properties around the world, namely in Wolfsburg, Germany; New York, United States; Marbella, Spain; and Penha Longa, Portugal.
Prior to his new appointment, Pep helmed The Ritz-Carlton, Doha in Qatar, his first foray in the Middle East, as general manager from 2009.
Radek Cais
Hotel Manager
Radek Cais brings 22 years of hospitality experience to Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, having began his career as a Sous Chef with a AAA 5-Diamond property in Vancouver. He has since held a variety of progressive senior management positions throughout Asia and Europe and spent the last decade in several general manager roles throughout the Middle East with the Radisson SAS hotel group.
In this capacity he managed the construction and operation of a 100-unit luxury residence in Bahrain then opened a 427-room five star hotel in Cairo. Most recently, he oversaw the planning and implementation of the full scale renovation of one of Jeddah’s leading business hotels.
Audrey Huttert
Executive Assistant Manager of Rooms
Audrey Huttert began her rooms career with Disney Hotels in the US before joining The Ritz hotel in London.
She joined The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company where she held progressive positions at The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead in Atlanta, The Ritz-Carlton New York Battery Park, The Ritz-Carlton, Wolfsburg in Germany, and Penha Longa Hotel & Golf Resort, a Ritz-Carlton Hotel, in Portugal.
Her most recent role was EAM rooms then EAM operations at Abama Golf & Spa Resort, a Ritz-Carlton Hotel, in Tenerife. Prior to that, she worked for Conrad Brussels in Belgium.
Tabish Siddiquie
Executive Assistant Manager of Food & Beverage
Tabish Siddiquie brings over a decade of luxury hospitality experience to his new role, including work at the US-based Ritz-Carlton properties in Ohio, Fort Lauderdale and Sarasota and Marriott resort in Goa, India.
Most recently, he held the same position at The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota on the shores of Florida’s Gulf of Mexico and prior to that, Tabish held various food and beverage positions at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman in the Caribbean.
Dilip Mukundan
Director of Sales & Marketing
Dilip joined The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore as the associate director of sales before moving stateside to oversee the two Ritz-Carlton properties in New York as area director of international sales.
He then moved to Orlando as director of travel industry sales for The Ritz-Carlton Hotel and J.W. Marriott Hotel at Grande Lakes Orlando before returning to Singapore as regional director of sales for South East Asia with Mandarin Oriental.
Dilip returned to Ritz-Carlton Hotels four years later in the capacity of director of sales & marketing at The Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain and in total, has more than 20 years’ experience in the industry.
Vincent Pesce
Director of Finance
Vincent started his career with Accor, where he held progressive positions in France and China, including area roles, over the course of eight years before joining IHG Dubai Festival City as director of finance & business support.
Vincent has a Degree in Accounting and Finance from Bordeaux University in France and also attended Reims Management School at Middlesex University where he achieved his CESEM international course diploma B.A. (Hons) in European Business Administration with First Class Honours.
Mohamed Ayub
Director of Engineering
Mohamed joined The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal as director of engineering in November 2011.
He brings with him more than 20 years of engineering experience with Marriott Hotels. Mohamed started his hospitality career as chief engineer at the Renaissance Hotel in Dubai before moving to the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Dubai. From there, he moved into the role of cluster director of engineering for Marriott in Kuwait before joining The Ritz-Carlton.
Richard Mazeau
Director of Human Resources
French-national Richard began his professional career with five years in the French Navy before joining MKG Consulting where he oversaw the Lodging and Catering sector.
Igniting his passion for hotels, Richard soon joined Hilton Hotels where he spent the next three years at their various properties in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
He then moved to Hilton Abu Dhabi before joining the One&Only Royal Mirage, Dubai as director of human resources & training.
David Gache
Executive Chef
A French national with extensive experience in European, Asian and Middle Eastern cuisines, David started his career with IHG in Geneva and London. Having spent more than five years in Europe, David joined Le Méridien resort in Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean and throughout the years worked at the company’s properties in Bahrain, Indonesia and Thailand.
Prior to this appointment, David served as executive chef of Ritz-Carlton in Bahrain. At Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, David will lead a team of 113 chefs and 28 stewards.
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