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
With more than 30 years of experience in the industry behind him, Cropp says his unwavering objective is to cultivate and maintain outstanding F&B operation, with a management style that is hands-on, results-orientated, and people-centric. His career has seen him take on roles throughout Asia, India and the Middle East, and 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 Cropp is responsible for more than 60 F&B outlets in Saudi Arabia, where he has lived for about four years. 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. Recruitment is a focus moving forwards as the company has more openings in the Kingdom in the pipeline.
Bite-sized facts:
Number of years in the F&B industry: 32
Number of years with this company: 5
Number of years in this role: 1.6
Number of years working in the Middle East: 6
Nationality: Australian
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