Eurofin Hospitality | Board of Directors

Alexandre Cadosch
President of the Board of Eurofin Hospitaliy S.A. He is a graduate of the “Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne” with a degree in hospitality management. Mr. Cadosch is Sole Director of a company that owns a five star hotel. In 1989, he started to work in the field of brokerage (currencies & precious metals options) with Tradition Financial Services in Lausanne. He then joined Gestar S.A., a financial company based in Lausanne owned by the Espirito Santo Group, where he gained experience in private banking as well as corporate, legal and tax fields. At the end of 1999, Mr. Cadosch established Eurofin Services S.A. in Lausanne for a private investor. Mr Cadosch is also director and President of EI – American Real Estate Corporation, a Florida corporation with holdings in the hotel industry in Florida.

Jean-Michel Cuvelier
Managing Director. He has more than 21 years of experience in the hospitality industry. For the last 3 years, he has been working as a hospitality industry consultant in Miami and the Caribbean Islands. He is also Chairman of the Board of an important Tourism sector player, specialising in the development of bio-diversity. Prior to working in the consulting business, he was in charge of the strategic development of a Belgian hotel chain where he was a member of the Executive Committee. For more than 10 years, he managed luxury hotels and a hotel chain in Belgium, successfully bringing multiple hotels from red to black for positive financial results. He accomplished these successes primarily by repositioning hotels, adapting new strategies in sales and marketing, through use of Yield Management and with development of a new Food Beverage concept. Jean-Michel is also a graduate of the “Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne”.

Georges Dumont
Mr. Dumont, with a Commercial Engineering degree from the Brussels Business School I.C.H.E.C. , began his career with the international audit firm of KPMG. He subsquently worked more than 20 years for the French hotel Group ACCOR worldwide He contributed to the development and management of the hotel activities of ACCOR in Northern Europe; he managed the Finance and Administration Department of the International Railway Services Division of Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and, finally, redeveloped the “Corporate Internal Audit “department of the Group at the worldwide headquarters in Paris. His international, diversified career gave him then the opportunity in 2000 to provide consulting in the following areas: Strategic Planning, launching of new organizations and projects, motivation and co-ordination of important staff, international Accounting, management accounting, financial control and international tax, business plans, corporate financing, mergers and acquisitions.

Clem Barter
Mr. Barter has over 30 years of experience in the travel and hospitality industry. From 1990 to 2006 he worked for Conrad International where he became President in 2000. He was a driving force behind the management and expansion of the Conrad Hotels. He oversaw hotel management, sales, marketing and development. Barter’s professional affiliations include membership of the Chaîne des Rotisseurs and the American Society of Travel Agents. Barter has held executive positions with Inter-Continental Hotels, Forum Hotel, Hotel Negresco, Hotel Beau Rivage, Hotel Atlantic, Hotel Kempinski and London’s Tara Hotel.

Michel Creton
Also a graduate of the “Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne”, his early career led him to assume local and international management positions in different Hospitality facilities for over 10 years, thus giving Mr. Creton valuable knowledge of the hotel business environment. Presently Manager of Eurofin Services SA based in Lausanne, Mr. Michel Creton is specialized in financial planning, accountancy and trust services.