Orient-Express Hotels Ltd, the luxury hotel company and adventure travel operator, is strengthening its core leadership with the appointment of three vice presidents bringing new talent to its management team.
Amrita Bhalla will join the group as vice president, global human resources, and Katherine Blaisdell is appointed as vice president, technical services, following the planned retirement of Roger Collins after 22 years of dedicated service.
Amrita Bhalla makes the move from a leading Asian hospitality group, where she held the position of chief people officer and executive vice president, human resources. Prior to this, she served as executive VP of human resources for The Oberoi Group and before that as director, recruitment & development for Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts.
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Katherine Blaisdell joins Orient-Express Hotels from Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, where she was vice president, architecture & design, responsible for managing global hotel construction and renovation projects.
During her years in the industry, she has also served as director of project management & construction for St. Regis Hotels & Resorts and as VP of design & construction for Viceroy Hotels.
These appointments follow the internal promotion of Neil Gribben to vice president, accounting and control in March 2013. In his new role, Neil will continue to oversee the group’s regional financial controllers and the financial performance of its business units, and in addition, is now responsible for the financial reporting function in central finance.
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