The highest achieving prize winners in HOSPA’s hospitality-focused professional development programme have been named.
The winners are the leaners who achieved the highest grades during their studies in financial management and revenue management on courses completed in February and August 2017
HOSPA is a not-for-profit educational organisation offering courses for hospitality professionals seeking to improve their careers.
The financial management programme is studied in three separate stages over 18 months. The revenue management programme is offered in three separate levels, each taking five months to complete.
Cash prizes and certificates will be presented to the winners at an event held at Hilton on Park Lane hotel in January 2018. The day will also include a panel debate chaired by Professor Peter Jones MBE, chairman of HOSPA’s professional development committee, discussing education and recruitment needs of hospitality finance and revenue managers.
Debra Adams, association’s head of professional development, said: “We are delighted to be returning to the Hilton Park Lane to celebrate the achievements of our highest performing learners on the HOSPA professional development programmes during 2017.”
She added: “Congratulations go to all our learners and prize winners, who have successfully completed each stage of their financial Management and revenue management studies over the last eighteen months. We are very proud of their achievements which have been gained whilst working in demanding and fulfilling roles in the hospitality industry.”
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Financial Management prize winners, completed in February 2017 were:
Stage 1 – Introduction to Financial Accounting:
Monika Hyde, Management Accounts Assistant, Quay Hotel & Spa, Deganwy, Wales
Stage 2 – Operational Management Accounting:
Natalia Zaremba, Assistant Financial Controller, Renaissance Hotel, Paris
Stage 3 – Strategic Management Accounting:
Matthew Bennett, Financial Controller, The Derbyshire Hotel, Alfreton, Derbyshire
Financial Management prize winners, completed in August 2017 were:
Stage 1 – Introduction to Financial Accounting:
Emalyn Gretton, formerly Accounts Assistant, Jurys Inns; now at DS Smith Packaging Services Ltd., Bristol
Stage 2 – Operational Management Accounting:
Monika Hyde, Management Accounts Assistant, Quay Hotel & Spa, Deganwy, Wales
Stage 3 – Strategic Management Accounting:
Ketan Bhakta, Finance Graduate Manager, Jurys Inns, Birmingham
Revenue Management prize winners, completed in February 2017 were:
Level 1: Introduction to Revenue Management:
David Clancy, General Manager, Leonardo Edinburgh Capital Hotel, Edinburgh
Level 2: Operational Revenue Management:
Sam Jennings, Key Market Revenue Manager – South West, Whitbread – Premier Inn, Luton, Bedfordshire
Level 3: Strategic Revenue Management:
Diane Little, Assistant Cluster Rooms Revenue Manager, Principal Hotels, Edinburgh
Revenue Management prize winners, completed in August 2017 were:
Level 1: Introduction to Revenue Management:
Miriam Waldmeyer, Revenue Centre Manager, Royal Lancaster London Hotel, London
Level 2: Operational Revenue Management:
Henry Rouse, Revenue Manager, Hoseasons, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Level 3: Strategic Revenue Management:
Sam Jennings, Key Market Revenue Manager – South West, Whitbread – Premier Inn, Luton, Bedfordshire
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