32. Rob Weeden, VP sales & marketing EMEA, India, Indian Ocean & Canada, Shangri-La (Last year 41st)
A jump of nine places for Shangri-La’s VP in his second year in the Power 50.
Rob Weeden looks after 16 Shangri-La hotels, four of which are in the Middle East. That number is set to grow to six within the next two years with the opening of a new Shangri-La property in Doha later in 2015; and the company’s first hotel in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — the “architecturally spectacular” Shangri-La Hotel Jeddah, due to open in 2017.
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By the numbers
Number of years in role: 3
Number of years with company: 18
Number of operating hotels in the Middle East: 4
Number of pipeline hotels in the Middle East: 2
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