Deutsche Hospitality has put the finishing touches to its new management tier. Ulrich Bensel has been appointed to the new position of Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) with immediate effect. Along with Daniela Schade, Chief Commercial & Distribution Officer, Florian Daniel, Chief Information Officer and Claus-Dieter Jandel, Chief Development Officer, Ulrich Bensel forms the new C-Level of Deutsche Hospitality. In his capacity as CHRO, Mr. Bensel will head up People Management & HR Operations, People & Organisational Development and HR Recruiting & Employer Branding. He will report directly to Dr. Ulrich Johannwille, CFO and Board Member with responsibility for Human Resources at Deutsche Hospitality.
Deutsche Hospitality is taking a further important step along its pathway to restructuring. Florian Daniel has been appointed to the newly created position of Chief Information Officer with immediate effect. In his capacity as CIO, Mr. Daniel will be responsible for the areas of Commercial & Business Systems, Digital Customer Experience, Data Science & Analytics, Technology Innovation & Enterprise Architecture as well as Infrastructure & Data Security and Business Efficiency & Integration Capabilities, and advances the digital transformation of the company.
Mr. Daniel was able to gain a wide-ranging knowledge of the company in his previous role as Vice President Group Information Technology. He joined Deutsche Hospitality in 2017 as Senior Director Group IT. Prior to this, he was Director world-wide IT at the international initial and continuing training provider Berlitz, where he was in charge of global operational and strategic IT for 39 countries and around 400 locations.
Norbert Speth has been appointed to the newly created position of Vice President Corporate Strategy & Openings at Deutsche Hospitality with effect from 1 February 2021. Mr. Speth, who has also worked at InterContinental and Marriott, will be responsible in future for the pooling and development of strategic initiatives and will also take charge of the Future Openings Division.