Matthew Cropp, Corporate Director F&B Culinary and Concept Development, Al Khozama Management Company — Hospitality Division
10. Matthew Cropp, Corporate Director F&B Culinary and Concept Development, Al Khozama Management Company — Hospitality Division
Cropp’s management style is hands-on, results-orientated, and people-centric. He excels in challenging and culturally-diverse environments. Having worked throughout Asia, India and the Middle East, Cropp has experience of a range of operational projects, pre-openings and openings in superior deluxe, large volume and deluxe boutique hotels, resorts and leisure operations. Al Khozama offers bespoke hotel management and development solutions for corporate, boutique, extended stay, conference, and resort properties and, as corporate director of food and beverage culinary and concept development within the company’s hospitality division, Cropp is responsible for 46 F&B outlets in Riyadh, six in Jeddah, and 14 in Makkah.
As well as creating a new concept portfolio for the group, he has successfully developed a centralised, country-wide supply chain, and implemented a programme of career mapping for the company’s F&B and culinary department team leaders. Cropp showcased his skills as a project manager as he oversaw the full catering for the Arab Latin Summit this year. With new openings in Riyadh, Al Khobar and Jeddah between 2016 and 2019, Cropp’s priorities will continue to be staff recruitment and development, and the bedding in of the new, consistent brand standards.
Bite-sized facts:
Number of years in the F&B industry: 31
Number of years with this company: 4
Number of years in this role: 1
Number of years working in the Middle East: 5
Number of people you are responsible for: 750+
Number of F&B outlets in the Middle East: 66
Nationality: Australian
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