Mark A. Edleson
President and CEO
Mark has over thirty years of experience in finance, real estate development and the leisure industry in Southeast Asia. A graduate of Stanford University and formerly a Vice President of Citibank, he was a partner in a corporate financial advisory firm for ten years before concentrating on the hotel and leisure sectors. Mark has been associated with a number of successful brands in the leisure industry. He was a founder of the Nusa Pacific Group that owns several well-regarded upscale hotel properties in Indonesia; a founding partner of GHM Indonesia, a hotel management company operating a number of boutique hotels; and one of the founding partners of The Odyssey Club, which recently merged with Exclusive Resorts, the world leader in private residence clubs. He is also President of the owning company of the Amanjiwo resort in Indonesia, and a founding partner of Mandara Spa Asia — the leading global operator of resort spas. He can be reached at maedleson@alilahotels.com
Frederic Flageat-Simon
Managing Director and COO
Frederic graduated from Centre International de Glion, Switzerland. He has over 12 years of experience in the hotel and tourism industry in Europe and Asia. He was one of Accor’s youngest General Managers when he opened the Novotel Lombok in 1996, and in 1998 was transferred to Malaysia to manage the Sofitel Palm Resort, one of the largest resorts in Asia with 350 rooms and eight F&B outlets. Frederic joined Alila Hotels and Resorts as Managing Director in August 2001. He can be reached at ffsimon@alilahotels.com
Doris Goh
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Doris has a distinguished career spanning more than 15 years in the hospitality industry including a nine-year tenure as Regional Director of Sales, ASEAN with the Mandarin Oriental Group. She was also the first Asian woman to serve as education chairperson at the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) in Asia as well as their representative on the Asia Pacific Council. A well respected professional, her work earned much recognition which bagged the ACTE President's Award in 2002 for her regional contributions. Besides establishing sales and marketing platforms for Alila, Doris is also involved in technical services for the Group’s development projects to position and grow the Alila brand on a global scale. She can be reached at doris@alilahotels.com
Genevieve McKenzie
Vice President, Human Resources
Genevieve focuses on Alila recruitment and work processes for the new hotels and resorts as well as development of human resource policy throughout the company. Prior to this, Genevieve was the Director of Human Resources at Mandara Spa Asia and Director of Operations at Mandara Spa Indonesia. She also spent 12 years with Four Seasons hotels and resorts as Director of Human Resources in various Asian locations. She can be reached at gmckenzie@alilahotels.com
Arjan de Boer
Vice President, Development
A Dutch National, Arjan graduated from the Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, Netherlands and has fourteen years of Asian hospitality experience. He served as General Manager of a privately owned and managed luxury resort in Phuket, Thailand, subsequently joining Alila Ubud as Resident Manager before being appointed General Manager in mid-2003. He joined Alila Hotels and Resorts as Director of Technical Services in December 2005 and is now heading the development team, pursuing business opportunities in South East Asia and the Middle East. He can be reached at adeboer@alilahotels.com
Newton Siao
Vice President, Finance
Newton ensures that best financial practices are in place and establishes both short and long-term financial strategies and business plans for all properties managed by Alila Hotels and Resorts. He provides corporate support for financial management and audits existing Alila properties and new ones during pre-openings. Newton was previously the Resident Manager of Uma Ubud in Bali, Financial Controller of the Opus Hotel in Vancouver and Cocoa Island in the Maldives. As a Certified Public Accountant, Newton has eight years of international audit and business advisory exposure with KPMG and Deloitte and Touche based in Canada, China and Spain prior to operating in the hospitality industry. He can be reached at nsiao@alilahotels.com
Murlidhar Rao Viswavasu
Vice President, Operations
Murli was General Manager of Alila Jakarta from late 2004. Prior to joining Alila, he managed Point Grace, an exclusive retreat in the Caribbean and also spent several years in Asia with the Four Seasons and Mandarin Oriental groups. Under his guidance, Alila Jakarta received the Adikarya Wisata Award from the Government of Jakarta for outstanding hospitality achievement. He left Alila Jakarta to assume responsibility for the pre-opening preparation of Alila Villas in the Maldives, and has subsequently been made Director of Operations for all Alila properties. He can be reached at murli@alilahotels.com
