Company Profile
KCI is a management and investment company owned and managed by Mr. W.J.M. van den Dijssel.

Mr. W.J.M. van den Dijssel
Willem-Jan van den Dijssel (1959) has over 20 years of hotel operation, investment and management experience. After an education at the Ecole Hotelière de Paris, Mr. Van den Dijssel has been responsible for food and beverage, turnaround and a new development project of various hotels in the Netherlands and France, before he became the General Manager of Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam. After his nomination as the Chief Executive Officer in 1993, he successfully led the public hotel company Krasnapolsky through a major acquisition process and a merger with Golden Tulip Hotels. Under the management of Mr. Van den Dijssel, the one shop operation with Euro 20 millions in revenue transformed into an international hotel company, active in 10 countries with Euro 400 million in revenue. In 2000, the Krasnapolsky Hotel Group merged with NH Hoteles at a share price of Euro 90, a substantial increase from Euro 5.50 in 1996. After the merger, Mr. Van den Dijssel was subsequently Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Board at NH Hoteles. Currently, Mr. Van den Dijssel is an investor in and Chief Executive Officer of the Euronext listed
company Newconomy. Since February 2002 Mr. Van den Dijssel has successfully restructured and repositioned the company.

Responsibilities of KCI in the fund management
Mr. Van den Dijssel and employees of KCI will be responsible for the supervision of the hotel management in portfolio companies and the selection, contracting and supervision of external hotel management companies.

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