Organisation

Hotel management

Hotel management capacity of the fund
As the hotel turnaround expertise is key for the fund to create value, the fund will have sufficient hands-on hotel turnaround management capacity available within its own organisation. Within the fund management, a hotel management team consisting of a group of experienced hotel managers will be created that will be supervised by Mr. Van den Dijssel. This enables the fund to be a hands-on portfolio manager and to fulfil an operational role if necessary.

Mr. Van den Dijssel has a long and broad international experience with both hands-on operational hotel management, as well as all aspects of the selection, contracting and dealing with professional hotel management companies. Mr. Van den Dijssel will primarily be responsible for all hotel management issues within the fund management. The other partners in the fund management will support these activities.

As soon as extra capacity is required, most likely after 2 or 3 acquisitions, the fund’s hotel management team will be expanded with additional senior hotel management. Vast experience with turnaround and refurbishment processes as well as senior responsibility within an international hotel management company are part of the profile.

External hotel management companies
The subsequent stage of value creation and optimisation can be outsourced to external professional hotel management companies. Market standard management contracts will arrange this outsourcing relationship, where two key elements will be different from standard contracts:
  • In order to have multiple exit scenarios, no obligations to external management parties may remain at the end of the fund’s involvement, which requires a flexible termination clause in the contract;


  • The fund will align the incentives for the management company with its 5 years value growth and exit targets, which requires non-standard incentive schemes which are related to cash flow and value, rather than revenues.