Having worked across five countries on two continents, Herr has a wealth of operational and international leadership experience that will help him lead, manage and further develop the two properties and better position them in key markets.

He initially joined InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) in 1993 as a rooms division trainee under the Fast Track graduate development programme.

Since then, he has taken on a number of operational roles at IHG properties in Hamburg, Paris, Leipzig, New York, Vienna and Prague, leading up to his first general manager assignment in 2003 in Hamburg.

In the past years, he held the same position first in Dusseldorf and than in Prague and Berlin.