Alejandro Helbling and Uwe Faust. Alejandro Helbling and Uwe Faust.

Faust will report to Helbling and joins the culinary management team, overlooking Jumeirah’s 215 food and beverage outlets across the group.

The group has, in recent times, made significant investment in its restaurants including the launch of a number of collaborations with Michelin starred chefs such as Nathan Outlaw (Burj Al Arab Jumeirah) and most recently announced for 2017, Tom Kerridge (Jumeirah Carlton Tower).

Faust has a Master’s Degree from the Hotel School Munich and has worked all over the world in countries such as Switzerland, Sweden, India, South Africa, China, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Qatar and Turkey.

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The German national was also previously based in Dubai and opened The Armani Hotel in Burj Khalifa and The Address Downtown.

He has over 20 years’ experience as executive chef with a number of luxury hotels including Armani, Shangri-La, Oberoi, Peninsula, Raffles and Mandarin Oriental.