Hospitality specialization
Decades of senior hotel-industry experience give us a practical understanding of the roles, organizations and markets in which we recruit.
Global Hospitality Executive Search
Grosvenor International Partners helps hospitality companies identify and attract exceptional senior executives worldwide. Every assignment is led directly by experienced industry principals who understand the business, the market and the leadership required to deliver results.
Executive Search
Leadership decisions have lasting consequences. We work with hotel companies, owners, investors, developers and other hospitality organizations to identify senior executives with the experience, judgement and cultural fit to succeed.
Our assignments span board, corporate, operational and functional leadership roles across international markets. We combine deep sector knowledge, disciplined research and long-standing industry networks to build strong candidate fields rather than rely on a limited existing database.
Clients work directly with the partners from the initial brief through market mapping, assessment, selection and completion. That senior involvement is central to how we work.
Decades of senior hotel-industry experience give us a practical understanding of the roles, organizations and markets in which we recruit.
We conduct searches across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific through extensive industry relationships and targeted research.
The principals remain personally involved throughout the assignment, providing continuity, judgement and accountability at every stage.
Partners
Partner
David brings extensive international hospitality leadership experience developed through senior human resources roles with Grand Metropolitan, Forum Hotels International and InterContinental Hotels. His responsibilities included recruitment, management development and HR leadership across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and a global hotel portfolio.
After leaving IHG, David built a successful international executive search business focused on senior hospitality leadership and has continued to advise clients on critical appointments across global markets.
Partner
Jim spent approximately 30 years with InterContinental Hotels Group in senior human resources and talent leadership roles. His experience included responsibility for the HR function supporting more than 250 owned and managed hotels across multiple brands and countries throughout the Americas.
He later created and led IHG’s Americas Talent Acquisition function, supporting corporate and hotel staffing across North and South America. Throughout his corporate career and in executive search, Jim has worked extensively on the identification and assessment of senior hospitality leaders.
Jim holds a master’s degree from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration.
About Grosvenor
Grosvenor International Partners was built around a simple principle: senior executive search is most effective when experienced principals stay close to the client, the market and the candidates.
Our partners combine first-hand hospitality operating and corporate experience with executive search expertise. That allows us to understand the commercial context behind an assignment, challenge the brief when necessary and assess candidates with the perspective of people who have worked inside the industry.
We measure success by the quality of the appointment and the strength of the client relationship. Much of our work comes from repeat clients and referrals—an outcome we value more than scale for its own sake.
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