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Orient Express Hotels:New General Manager Appointments in the USA

Jul 22, 2008

Bruno Brunner
General Manager of El Encanto
Bruno Brunner has been appointed as General Manager of El Encanto – the recently acquired Orient-Express property in Santa Barbara, USA, which is currently undergoing a US$65 million refurbishment. Brunner comes from the Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans, where he has been General Manager since January 2008 and before that, General Manager at Reid’s Palace Hotel in Madeira since February 2004. Bruno has a vast amount of hotelier knowledge and experience gained from previous positions, with prominent hotel groups such as St Regis, Shangri La, Rosewood and Hyatt.  Bruno will oversee the continuing refurbishment of El Encanto, a boutique hotel made up of a collection of 1920’s Spanish colonial cottages, and manage its reopening which is due for October 2009.

Clive O’Donoghue
General Manager of The Inn at Perry Cabin
Clive O’Donoghue has been appointed as the new General Manager of The Inn at Perry Cabin in Chesapeake Bay, USA, following the departure on John Volponi.  O’Donoghue, who was previously GM of El Encanto, who has worked in a temporary General Manager capacity at the Inn at Perry Cain in the past, was very successful during the opening of a new wing of the hotel in 2002.

David Teich
General Manager of the Windsor Court Hotel
Following Bruno Brunner’s move to El Encanto, David Teich has been appointed General Manager of the Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans.  Teich was previously Executive Food and Beverage Director at Charleston Place in South Carolina, where he has been since 1996.

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