MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fredrik Aspegrén, 51, highly experienced manager in the luxury hotel and tourism destination industry assumes the position as senior consultant for the Hotel, Travel and Tourism competence center.
He brings 25 years of valuable operational experience in the international luxury tourism industry to Steinbach & Partner. Furthermore his consultant knowledge gained in this field over the past years will be of great benefit to their clients. In order to insure he is up-to-date with current industry developments and to keep in-touch and widen his extensive network he holds various supervisory board positions in hospitality consulting companies.
In 2010, Fredrik Aspegrén was a founding member and is still a partner in CGP Monaco, a consulting firm where he specialized in off-market hospitality assets transactions and financing.
Previously, the hospitality expert spent 5 years as Managing Director of Columbus Hotels based in Monaco. In 2008 he was honored by being voted as Hotelier of the year.
By January 2005, Fredrik Aspegrén had spent a total of 15 years in South Africa in various top management positions working mainly for hotels affiliated to the Relais-Chateaux group. This organization regroups a collection of extremely luxurious and unique hotels and restaurants characterized by their very high standards and sense of welcome.
During this time, in parallel to running hotels, the expert took over the position as President for the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region for Relais-Chateaux. He expanded the number of hotels in the region from 9 properties in 1 country to 23 hotels in 7 countries.
You can also add to Fredrik Aspegrén’s international experience 2 years in various management positions in the well known Meadowood Hotel & Resort in Napa Valley, California, USA.
He received his hotel management diploma at the world famous Lausanne Hotel School and speaks five languages.
“Especially within the Hotel, travel and Tourism industry you realize the difference in quality and its impact. So it is therefore a logic progression to incorporate this exciting competence center to our existing Portfolio”, explains Guido Happe, CEO of Steinbach & Partner. “With Fredrik Aspegrén we managed to attract a highly experienced manager and consultant who have invaluable knowledge of the industry.”
Steinbach & Partner Executive Consultants is an international personnel consultancy with 121 employees worldwide. At 30 locations in Europe, Asia, South America, Australia and the U.S. Steinbach & Partner brings their proven market & consultancy expertise into the mechanical engineering, automotive, electrical engineering, IT & internet, medical engineering, pharma, professional services, FMCG/retail, and diagnostics industries. In Germany Steinbach & Partner has founded the Board Academy – www.board-academy.de, an initiative for fostering qualification, integrity and social responsibility in supervisory and advisory boards. More information at www.steinbach-partner.de