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New board member at Dorint: Dobel leaves, Vrancx steps in
Moenchengladbach. The Dorint AG supervisory board has appointed Daniel Vrancx to be an additional member of the company’s executive board. An experienced manager from Accor, he will serve for a period of three years and assume responsibility for the Operations section of the executive board. Jochen Dobel has chosen to retire in the summer of this year.
Daniel Vrancx was born in Belgium; he is married and father of two children. He was employed by the Accor Group for more than 25 years, where his most recent office was General Director of Operations for the Middle East. He was also responsible for the franchise partnerships. In addition to fulfilling a variety of mandates from the advisory committee, Mr. Vrancx was also a member of the Dorint AG supervisory board until July 2004 and a member of the Accor Hotels Germany supervisory board until December 2004.
Jochen Dobel will remain at his post until the end of the first half of 2005 in order to complete unfinished activities associated with the company’s restructuring. / red
Accor Dorint SMARD GmbH: Rob Hornman follows Steffen Weidemann
In January 2005 Rob Hornmann took up his post as Managing Director of Accor Dorint SMARD, in charge of more than 50 000 Accor and Dorint hotel rooms. The company was founded in 2003 to merge the distribution and marketing structures of Accor Hotellerie Germany GmbH and Dorint AG.
Rob Hornmann
Rob Hornman had been running the sales department as Senior Vice President since July 2004. After seven years in charge of distribution and marketing for Accor Asia he moved to the Accor headquarters in Paris. There he was responsible for International Sales. Joost Serrarens and Toni Leiner will support him now in distribution.
Steffen Weidemann, former Dorint executive board member, resigned as Managing Director of SMARD at the end of 2004. Following that he has been a consultant to Accor. Weidemann had successfully implemented the branding strategy of Accor and Dorint. Marketing and distribution for the brands Dorint Sofitel, Dorint Novotel, Novotel, Dorint Resorts & Spa, Mercure, Suitehotel, Ibis, Etap and Formule 1 have merged.