People

01 January 2000
People

GUY MORRIS has been appointed by Grove International to take over as general manager of the Arora International hotel at Heathrow, which opens in June. He was previously general manager at the Regent Palace hotel in London.

TONY BALE, a chef at the Kings Head Inn and Restaurant in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, has been elected a member of the Master Chefs of Great Britain.

DAWN PENNINGTON has been appointed manager at the Holiday Inn Express in Salford

Quays, Manchester. She was a graduate trainee manager at the Crowne Plaza Midland-Manchester, where she gained experience as front-office duty manager and reservations manager.

DOMINIQUE EMMS has joined the Lea Manor Hotel in Albrighton, Shropshire, as general manager. She was a general manager for Macdonald Hotels at Egerton House hotel in Bolton.

TIM SHEARMAN is the new general manager at the Holiday Inn London-Victoria. He was operations director at Fownes hotel group in Worcester.

DAVID GRINDROD has taken over as head chef at Halyards restaurant in the Cardiff Bay hotel.

He was head chef at Buckerell Lodge hotel in Exeter.

DARREN ROCK has joined La Tasca's Spanish tapas bar in Leeds, due to open in April, as general manager. He was general manager at the Break for the Border bar and restaurant in Leeds.

SIMON REDFORD has been named business development associate for consultancy Catering Concepts in Long Eaton, Derbyshire. He was catering manager for Nottinghamshire County Council.

ANDREW INGLETON has been promoted to director of group property services for Queens Moat Houses. He will continue his previous role of property director for QMH UK alongside his new position.

KATHERINE MOORE has taken over as Virgin Hotel Collection's account manager for the Midlands. She was a freelance sales consultant for the St Giles hotel in London.

PHILIP AUGAR, chairman of securities at Schroders, has been appointed a non-executive director of London-based brewer Fuller, Smith and Turner. He will serve on the audit and remuneration committees.

PAUL WIGGINS has been appointed human resources director of the Whitbread Hotel company, responsible for Marriott Hotels and Travel Inn. He joins from retail group Sears, where he was a human resources director.

JACQUIE FREER has been promoted to business development manager at conference venue finder In Business Reservations, based in Surrey. She was previously personal assistant to the sales and marketing director.

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