Paolo Sanavia
Advisory Board Member @Seven Stars And Stripes Inc
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WORK HISTORY
Advisory Board Member @Seven Stars And Stripes Inc
Seven Stars and Stripes® was created from the dreams of a visionary entrepreneur and well educated international traveler.Thorsten Buehrrmann. Thorsten knew from his own experiences that there were far too many five star designations in the marketplace and no truly global award system in place that evaluates and recognizes hotels, restaurants, airlines, cruise lines and luxury products that are of extraordinary stature. To supplement his ambitions and build a truly globally recognized organization, Thorsten reached out to well-rounded authorities in the field of upscale hospitality, luxury products and cuisine and convinced some of them to become part of his distinguished advisory board. A board composed of affluent world travelers, hotel general managers, renowned executive chefs, and TV personalities, all highly-educated and experienced. With the advise of these experts perfected guidelines to discern the level of quality necessary to de ne the ultimate in luxury lifestyle products, services and cuisine.Promoting Seven Stars and Stripes® through public relations, cable TV, prestigious print media and the Internet, Seven Stars and Stripes® became instantly recognizable as the award show of the already famous American Dream® Show produced at Gurney’s Inn in the Hamp- tons and viewed throughout New York on Time Warner On-Demand. Seven Stars and Stripes® has achieved success throughout the world and is making tremendous inroads in AmericaSeven Stars and Stripes® award recipients are among the world’s most famous hotels and restaurants. We are honored to have presented the Seven Stars and Stripes® Award of Excellence to them. Today, these Seven Stars Awards TM are proudly displayed in such globally acknowledged World Class Hotels such as The Rittenhouse Hotel in Philadelphia, The Tabacón Grand Spa Thermal Resort in Costa Rica, The Ritz-Carlton Moscow, The Caravelle Hotel in Saigon, The Adlon in Berlin, The Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi just to mention a few.
EDUCATION
Cornell University
GMP program
Societe Suisse des Hoteliers en collaboration avec l’Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
Graduate Hotelière-Reastaurateur, SSH-Management Hotel School
NEOMA Business School
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General
Cornell University
GMP program
SKILLS
ABOUT PAOLO SANAVIA
A versatile and experienced international hotelier with excellent credentials, who successfully combines a classical training in luxury hospitality, with optimal management and business strengths. Managing and developing small and large resorts hotels. Paolo is a sound marketing positioning planner, demonstrating dynamic leadership and intuitive group facilitator to offer an anticipative service process centricity to achieve prime market position and create a sustained EBITDA. Seasoned in the field of luxury hotel-keeping, offering progressive experience, Paolo has worked with premium industry groups and leading independents in Europe (Hilton, Steigenberger, Kempinski), South Africa, Middle East (Meridien) and Caribbean from Operation Director, to General Manager and more recently as CEO and Managing Director. Assignments include: luxury corporate and resort complexes involving property openings, transitions, and renovations. A hotel operations expert, Paolo has been instrumental in service turnaround and pre-openings, as well as having managed market leaders resulting in 9-15% increased asset value, year-on-year. A proven track record of building best-in-class hospitality, he has consistently delivered exceptional service excellence awards since 2002. He has improved EBITDA and RevPar, moving comp-set ranking from #4 to #1 over a 2 year time span in multiple properties. Paolo holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Reims, France and Lausanne Hotel School, Switzerland. He has attended professional development courses at Cornell and Basel. Speaks fluently five languages Paolo can be reached at: T:+39••••••••59 E: s•••••••@gmail.com Premium hospitality,hotels,CEO,COO,resorts,general manager,project manager,asset management, boutique, pre-opening, marketing,GDS,MICE,executive,consulting, hospitality,luxury hospitality,5stars hotels,executive search,hotel management,hotel manager,Food & Beverage,EBITDA.
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