About
Professional Summary
I am the founder in 2002 of MD Hotel Investments, a succesfull niche hotel corporate finance advisory based in Amsterdam and the co-founder of European Hotel Capital, a private equity international hotel fund. Since June 2013 I joined Colliers in Amsterdam as Director Hotels and specialised in hotel developement advisory, operator search and hotel financing.
Curently I am Head of Hotels Benelux, Member of the Board of Colliers Netherlands and Direcor Alternative Real Estate.
Accomplishments
Established over 800 million Euro on transactional services in especially The Netherlands, Belgium and other European Countries. Most interesting hotel developments are the conversion of an office building in Amsterdam to a 446 rooms Apollo and the development of the award winning citizenM in Rotterdam. Interesting assignments (Advisory, Operator Search and Selection and Sale) are Yotel in Amsterdam (204 rooms), MGallery Rotterdam (220 rooms), Motto by Hilton Rotterdam (120 rooms), CityHub Amsterdam & Rotterdam,.
Education
Master in Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam
VWO
Memberships & Involvements
Assessor and Guest Lecturer University of Applied Sciences Breda
Guest Lecturer Hotel Management School Maastricht
Speaker at Events
Clients
Amerborgh, LIFE Europe, Leonardo Hotels, Dutch City Development, Corendon, VORM, Tenstone, BDO, HighBrook, Van der Valk Investments, Accor Invest, Omnam, Parklane, Odyssey Hotel Group, FRED Development, Being Development, AM, Vastint, Blauwhoed, Zoku, BAM, Indoor Golf Arena, ASR, Lingotto, Maarsen Groep, Maasstede, Ping Properties, Van Wijnen, NH Hoteles, Impact Vastgoed, ING Bank, INVESCO Real Estate, Eden Hotel Group, Vondel Hotels, KIT,
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My Team
My Team
I gained experience in the hotel industry while working for Marriott International for several years following my study of International Hospitality Management. With Marriott, I worked in Sales & Marketing and Event Operations, gaining much insight into both the strategic and operational processes in the hotel industry. I then completed an MSc in Business Administration at the VU University in Amsterdam and started with Colliers in 2015 as a trainee for the Hotels division. I now work with Colliers as Senior Consultant and have worked on many projects in the Benelux, varying from feasibility studies and development advisory to brokerage.
My area of expertise lies in fields such as multi country assigments, strategic marketing, International Business Development, International Private Public Initiatives, hospitality consultancy and corporate finance assignments. My clarity in vision and strategy, leads to tangible results. My focus has been predominantly been on cross border assigments, where I leveraged my extensive entrepreneurial expertise in Europe, the Middle East, India, Brazil and Russia. I have over 30 years experience in hotel operational consulting, initially with a focus on database management & customer loyalty programs as wel as hotel reservation systems in the global market. I have also spent several years in hotel development and real estate financing related areas, where I combined my expertise as hotel operations specialist in my role since late 2009 as Director Hotels for Colliers in the Netherlands as well as Head Of EMEA Hotels for Colliers. Since September 1, 2017 I am Chief Executive officer for Colliers in the Netherlands leading a team of some 300 plus professionals and 4 offices. I am a leader with a clear vision and a large drive to achieve goals.
After a successful internship in 2017, I officially joined Colliers in 2018 as Junior Consultant Hotels. My role as Junior Consultant was to support the Senior Consultants with transaction and consultancy assignments. For example, I have been involved in dispositions and acquisitions of hotels, leasing assignments, valuations, feasibility studies and contract negotiations. Besides, I was part of the Colliers Research team until the end of 2020, where I was responsible for collecting and analyzing market data and writing market stories and publications.
Since the beginning of 2020, I have the position of Consultant Hotels, where I primarily focus on the consultancy assignments within the hotel team. This includes guiding rental assignments, conducting feasibility studies and valuations and advising during contract negotiations. Clients are hotel developers, owners and hotel operators.
Hanneke finished her International Hospitality Management education with a specialization in Real Estate. After her education, she gained experience in the hotel industry. She worked for four years as the Assistant General Manager for a 5-star property where she supervised the renovations and operations. In January 2018, Hanneke started with Colliers as a Hotel Valuer. After two years working for the Valuations department, she started working for the Hotel Division of Colliers as a Consultant. She works for both the hotel transactions team as the consultancy and advisory team.