18. Mohamed Ahmed Awadalla, Chief Executive Officer, TIME Hotels Management
Since taking over as CEO, Awadalla has been instrumental in Time Hotels’ entry into three key regional markets.
After the inception of Time Hotels in 2012, the UAE-founded brand now has a presence with its three sub-brands, in the UAE, Egypt and Qatar, and will be operational in Saudi Arabia by 2016.
Time Hotels currently operates 12 properties under four different brands in the UAE and Egypt. Four- and five-star properties trade under the Time Hotels & Resorts brand, three-star hotels under the Time Express brand, furnished apartments under the Time Hotel Apartments brand, and both furnished and unfurnished residential apartments under Time Residence.
The group also has five hotels in the pipeline, all due to open by Q3 of 2017. These include Universal Time Residence in Doha.
Awadalla spearheaded the opening of Time’s Garhoud-based head office in Dubai, and the expansion of the group’s sales and reservation team with new offices in Cairo and Doha. He champions Time’s sustainability agenda and has been the driving force behind the various initiatives implemented across the portfolio, including the launch of the first hotel room stay carbon offsetting programme in the Middle East.
Introduced in April 2014, the programme has a target of saving up to 320 tonnes of carbon emissions by the end of 2015. In addition, Time Oak Hotel & Suites and Time Grand Plaza Hotel have both been awarded Green Globe certification.
By the numbers
Number of years in role: 3
Number of years with company: 8
Number of Middle East operating hotels: 12
Number of Middle East pipeline hotels: 5
Number of Qatar hotels: 1
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