Accor Appoints New COO For Asia Pacific
February 19, 2008 |
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Accor the appointment of Michael Issenberg as chairman and chief operating officer of Accor Asia Pacific and as a member of Accor Executive Committee.
Issenberg will take over from David Baffsky, who has served as chairman of Accor Asia Pacific since 1992. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States and has worked for Westin Hotels & Resorts, Laventhol and Horwath & Horwath Services Pty Limited in San Francisco and Sydney then for Merlin Properties.
After five years experience as CEO of the Hotels division for Mirvac Pty Limited, Issenberg joined Accor Asia Pacific in 1994 as a regional general manager before being promoted to CEO of Accor's hotels and tourism operations in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific in 1995. In 1998, he was appointed managing director for the Pacific region, which later included Japan. He was then appointed managing director for the entire Asia Pacific region in 2003, a region stretching from French Polynesia in the Pacific to India, in the west Asia.




































