Marsa Malaz Kempinski, The Pearl – Doha, has appointed Christoph Strahm as its new hotel manager and two further members to its senior management team: Matyas Bak, director of rooms, and Asif Akash, executive housekeeper.
Strahm is a passionate Swiss hotelier and started his career in 2005 at Kempinski Grand Hotel des Bains in St Moritz, Switzerland, in the food and beverage department.
After working with Sofitel in Vietnam, Strahm returned to Kempinski, taking on leading roles in Yinchuan and Dalian in China, before being appointed general manager of Hôtel des Mille Collines by Kempinski, where he facilitated the takeover of the historical “Hotel Rwanda”.
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He holds an MBA from HEC Lausanne, and will lead all the hotel operations along with Wissam Suleiman, general manager.
Matyas Bak started his career in the US in 2005, before joining Kempinski Hotel Corvinus in his hometown, Budapest, Hungary, in 2006.
Since then, Bak has taken on managerial front office and reservations roles in Bulgaria, Dubai and Slovakia.
He also held the position of regional rooms specialist for Europe; Matyas assisted at the opening of Kempinski Hotel Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, Germany, and managed projects in Myanmar, Djibouti, Chad and Kenya.
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