SINGAPORE 8 September 2020: Thanyapura Sports & Health Resort, Phuket, named Edgar Toral Hernandez as its new CEO, effective last week.

He joined the company in 2017 as an executive vice president. Prior to joining Thanyapura, he has worked in various senior operational roles in the hospitality and healthcare industries across Latin America, Europe and Asia.

The appointment was announced by Thanyapura’s outgoing president & CEO, Carl Philipp Berno Graf von Hardenberg.

Hernandez will focus on Thanyapura’s international expansion, after six and a half years working in Phuket. The expansion will start with establishing a corporate office in Singapore in March 2021.

Thanyapura’s first overseas operation will open in December this year at Hefei, China, with more planned in the near future. The first big resort in China is planned to open at the end of 2022.