About
Professional Summary
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.
Accomplishments
- Teaching every block at the Hotelschool the Hague and Hotelschool Maastricht;
- Chosen for the Colliers Young Talent Program '18 - '19;
- Nominated for the best Hospitality survey in Europe 2018;
Education
BA - Hotelschool the Hague
In 2014 I started the four-year Bachelor program at the Hogere Hotelschool The Hague. During the program, I completed two internship periods: in 2015 I completed a six-month internship at the Gran Melia Fenix Hotel in Madrid and in 2017 six months in the Colliers hotel team. After successfully defending my final thesis on Airbnb (grade 8.3), I received my diploma 'Bachelor Hotel Business Administration' in March 2018.
MSc - University of Amsterdam
Since 2019 I have been following a part-time Master's program at the University of Amsterdam. This Master is called “Executive Master in Management Studies”. This part-time Master is designed for professionals who want to obtain their Master of Science degree in addition to their work. I am expected to complete my MSc degree in June 2021.
Memberships & Involvements
Hotelschool the Hague Almuni
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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.
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.
Works as a valuer in the commercial real estate team at the Valuation department of Colliers. Since September 2016 I joined Colliers International Netherlands (Amsterdam), within the team Hospitality & International. This team mainly concentrates on valuation and advisory assignments for trade related properties such as Hotels, Restaurants, Petrol Filling Stations, cinemas, etc.. However, the primary focus of me and the team is on hotel valuations. As a result the team values approx 80-100 hotels per year. Previously I worked 3 years as a valuer with a real estate bank after completing my bachelor Real Estate in Groningen.
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.