Anna-Maria Dreesen El Achcar
Vice President Human Resources - Global Commercial, Marketing & Technology @IHG Hotels & Resorts
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WORK HISTORY
Vice President Human Resources - Global Commercial, Marketing & Technology @IHG Hotels & Resorts
Atlanta, GA, US
Global HR Business Partner to two global Executive Leadership functions, the Chief Commercial & Marketing and Chief Product & Technology Officer and their respective leadership teams. Business Verticals spanning from Brand, Marketing, Commercial, Technology Services, Information Security and Technology Product Teams. Global HR leadership responsibility for a global workforce of 2,300 corporate colleagues, the global Reservation Center with 2,500+ agents and the Philippines Corporate teams, key operational hubs span from the US, UK, Mexico, Philippines, Greater China and all other corporate locations of IHG.
EDUCATION
Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
BA, Hospitality Management
NEOMA Business School
MBA, Master of Business Administrationg [MBA]
Paedagogium Otto Kuehne Schule
Abitur
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
LCOR - Leading Change and Organizational Renewal, joint program Stanford & Harvard University
SKILLS
ABOUT ANNA-MARIA DREESEN EL ACHCAR
Anna-Maria is a motivated and peak performing professional with more than 20 years experience in multinational, regional, and government corporations across the globe, in particular North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. Brilliant acumen in global hospitality, property/asset, retail, leisure, financial services, and commodity trade. International talent acquisition management, Human Capital Leader, shared services architecture. Career chronicled by consistently driving strategic HR and organizational change and leadership agenda. Highly recognized for expertly managing multi-divisions with thousands of employees.Most recently in various leadership roles as HR Business Partner & Centre of Excellence Talent Acquisition for InterContinental Hotelgroup (IHG) in global roles with Commercial & Technology focus, Leader of the Luxury Talent Agenda and Operational HR Business Partner responsibility spanning across 40 countries, emerging and mature markets, colleagues, 250 hotels and revenue of over $4 billion.Previously, as Senior Consultant at DMCC, a Dubai government free zone authority, master developer for over 80 mixed-used towers in the JLT community and shareholder of several joint-ventures in financial services. Anna-Maria was responsible for driving the strategic HR and organisational change agenda to a commercialised business culture by leading various HR, leadership and C&B projects and by positioning HR as credible business partner.As strategic HR Business Partner for Majid Al Futtaim Group, a top regional retailer which develops, builds and operates assets such as Mall of the Emirates, Anna-Maria supported top management with the development and roll out of an Employer of Choice positioning by implementing various strategic HR initiatives across businesses.Kicking off her career, Anna-Maria was the Regional Head of HR with Kempinski Hotels being integral part of the global HR Leadership team; main achievements include the development of a company-wide HR Vision, corresponding global and regional implementation plans, the opening of four five star hotel projects throughout MENA such as Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi.
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