London
Wednesday 13th May 2009 -- Dorchester
Collection today announced the appointment of Edward
A. Mady as General Manager of The New York Palace. Reporting
directly to Christopher Cowdray,
Chief Executive of Dorchester Collection Mady will commence his new
position on
1st June.
Mr
Mady joins from Ritz-Carlton where he has been
Vice President and Area General Manager responsible for their
properties in San Francisco, Half Moon
Bay
and Phoenix
since January 2002. Prior to that he
worked in various General Manager positions for Ritz-Carlton between
1988 –
2002 including 8 years as GM for the Ritz Carlton in New York.
A
graduate of Saint Clair College Hotel &
Restaurant School Mady’s career spans 35 years in the hospitality
industry
working for luxury hotels and groups in Canada
and the United
States. Before
joining Ritz-Carlton Mady worked as
Hotel Manager at The Helmsley Palace (now The New York Palace) between
1984 –
1988. He started his career in
1974
with Fairmont Hotels & Resorts where he worked for 8 years in key
management positions and spent 3 years with Four Seasons Hotels and
Resorts in
the early 1980s.
Highly
regarded within the industry, Mady was a
key
part of the senior team when The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company received
the
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award both in 1992 and in 1999.
Christopher
Cowdray, Chief Executive of Dorchester
Collection says: “We are thrilled to be welcoming such a respected and
experienced
hotelier to the Collection. He has
an
excellent track record within the luxury market and his previous New York
experience
combined with his strong leadership skills make him the perfect man for
the
job. These are exciting times for
Dorchester Collection as we have more than doubled our portfolio in North America. We
have ambitious plans for The New York Palace with a major refurbishment
due to
start in 2011 and I know Ed will do a tremendous job in leading this
exciting
project.”
Speaking
about his new position Mr Mady said: “After
so many years with Ritz Carlton this is a major career move for
me. I have been incredibly impressed and excited
by the Dorchester Collection and their plans for The New York
Palace. This is a company that has an ambitious
vision and is making a real difference in the luxury hotel marketplace
and I’m
absolutely delighted to be joining at such an important stage in its
development. Equally I’m looking forward to working with the
management team and employees at The New York Palace to create one of
the
finest hotels in New York.”
In
August 2008 Dorchester Collection announced two
new hotels would be joining its portfolio – the Hotel Bel-Air and The
New York
Palace – bringing the total number of hotels in the Collection to seven
including The Dorchester in London, the Beverly Hills Hotel, the
Hôtel
Plaza Athénée
and Le Meurice in Paris and the Hotel
Principe di Savoia in Milan.
Dorchester
Collection
The Dorchester
Collection
is the successor to the Dorchester Group, originally established in
1996 to
manage a portfolio of some of the world’s foremost luxury hotels in
Europe and
the USA.
The
launch of Dorchester Collection in 2006 signalled a change to the
strategic
goals of the company. By applying its unrivalled experience and
capability in
owning and operating some of the world’s great individual hotels, the
company’s
vision is to become the ultimate hotel management company, with a
passion for
excellence and innovation, honouring the individuality and heritage of
its
iconic hotels. This will be achieved
through
acquisition as well as management of wholly-owned and part-owned hotels.
Backing
the strategy is a strong company branding that expresses the market’s
universally high regard for the current portfolio and the distinctive
common
values held by all Dorchester Collection hotels.
The current
portfolio
managed by Dorchester Collection:
The Dorchester in London,
The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly
Hills,
Le Meurice in Paris, Hotel Plaza
Athénée in Paris,
Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milan,The
New York Palace in New York, Hotel
Bel-Air in Los Angeles,
Coworth Park, Surrey, UK
(Opening
2010), 45
Park Lane, London
(Opening
2010), www.dorchestercollection.com
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