SINGAPORE, 25 November 2020: Though the pandemic has rewritten the playbooks of hotel management groups worldwide and precipitated waves of downsizing all over, GHM is ramping up for the robust growth expected once the hospitality industry is back on its feet.
The 28-year-old hotel group has assigned Ilkin Ilyaszade as vice president of operations and pre-opening services, overseeing the development of up-coming properties; The Chedi Aquarius Koh Chang, Thailand and The Chedi Khorfakkan, United Arab Emirates.
Ilkin Ilyaszade. 
Pissawan Srisakul. 
Jackson Sim.
An Azerbaijani national, Ilyaszade has opened 10 hotels and resorts across Asia and the Middle East for Banyan Tree and Pan Pacific over the past 15 years. He spent 11 years with Banyan Tree, in the Maldives, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Singapore.
While Ilyaszade fine-tunes new GHM properties, a new hire – Pissawan Srisakul (Jin) — joins the group as director of technical services in charge of design.
For the past seven years, Jin has worked as an interior designer for Soho Hospitality in Bangkok. Her projects for Soho ranged from The Service 1921 Restaurant & Bar at Anantara in Chiang Mai to guest rooms and a lounge at a Movenpick Hotel on Phuket.
To tap social media channels, GHM has appointed Jackson Sim as the group’s director of marketing with oversight on digital and branding initiatives.
Jackson worked in a similar capacity for Marriott International and for Singapore’s Next Story Group. He spent seven years heading the cluster digital marketing team at St. Regis, W and JW Marriott in Singapore.
