Rotana Corporate Sustainability Report 2012

Organisation We operate according to a decentralised organisational structure, with General Managers (GMs) in each hotel and Area Vice Presidents (AVPs) in different regions. The GM of each hotel reports directly to the relevant Area Vice Presidents and the company Chief Operating Officer (COO). The Corporate Sustainability Committee Members (CSC) are managed under the COO who reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In every hotel, an Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) Manager or Officer is tasked with incorporating sustainability management into relevant Rotana hotels and reports directly to the hotel GMs and indirectly to the Director of EHS in the head office who also reports to the COO. Selim El Zyr graduated from EHL in 1970. After completion of his post graduate studies in Cornell, Selim held his first job as Chief Steward in the Waldorf in New York. Selim then spent 12 years with Hilton International in Germany, Spain, Egypt, Canada and the UAE until he earned the title of Regional Director before he decided to shift into industrial catering by establishing a leading Lebanese fast food chain in 1982. After Lebanon, he then moved to the UAE with Abu Dhabi National Hotels and he reached the position of Vice President Operations of Palmariva Hotels. In 1992, he co-founded Rotana. Selim El Zyr President & CEO Economist by education and a graduate of New York University, Nasser Al Nowais founded and chaired for 14 years the Abu Dhabi National Hotels Company, the largest hotel and industrial catering company in the region where he acquired vast experience in the hospitality industry. He was also Managing Director of the Abu Dhabi Fund where he administered numerous touristic, industrial and agricultural investments as well as infrastructural projects in the Middle East and Africa. In addition to the prominent roles held in the world of banking, insurance, airline and tourism investment, Nasser was also Under Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Industry of the UAE Government. In 1992, he co-founded Rotana. Nasser Al Nowais Chairman