Cushman & Wakefield said on Monday that it has further expanded its EMEA Hospitality team with the hire of three partners and a senior surveyor.
Rob Seabrook, partner, has joined C&W to lead transactional activity across EMEA, working closely with Frederic le Fichoux, who leads hotel transactions across Continental Europe. Seabrook previously led CBRE’s UK hotel investment team.
He has nearly 30 years’ investment experience and has specialised in hotel investment for the last 17 years, advising on single assets as well as large portfolios.
Ed Fitch, partner, joins this month. He was previously executive vice president in JLL’s EMEA Hotels & Hospitality Group, providing acquisition advisory services to hotel investors across the region. He spent five years with JLL in Singapore and, since returning recently to Europe, has acted on major UK branded portfolios.
Lib Dear has joined as senior surveyer from CBRE Hotels where she was worked in the Capital Markets team in London handling investment sales.
The team has also recruited Borik Vokrinek as partner to lead its hospitality research function to service clients across the region. Vokrinek will join Cushman & Wakefield in May as partner, strategic advisory & head of Hospitality Research EMEA.
He will be based in Prague and will focus on developing and using Cushman & Wakefield’s hospitality research to drive investor strategy. He joins from Hyatt where he was regional vice president Feasibility & Development Finance for EMEA & South-West Asia.
Prior to Hyatt he spent more than six years at Hilton, as a senior director dealing with Feasibility & Investment Analysis, based both at Hilton’s EMEA HQ and in Istanbul. He also spent five years in the Asia Pacific market, including spells in Shanghai and Sydney.
C&W has been strengthening its EMEA hospitality team since last year when it hired Jonathan Hubbard as head of the business. Since then Hubbard has made several senior hires to expand the firm’s capabilities, including Brien Giuntini, partner – Hotel Transactions, who joined Cushman & Wakefield in Frankfurt from CBRE Hotels in October.
