Global Hospitality Executive Search

Senior leadership. Hospitality expertise. Partner-led 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.

Partners

Hospitality executives who became executive search specialists.

David Walters

David Walters

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.

davidw@grosvenorintl.com
+44 7764 413 703

Jim Manley

Jim Manley

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.

jimm@grosvenorintl.com
+1 770 331 5794

About Grosvenor

Small by design. Global in reach.

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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