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UK: Kenneth Hatton has been named as CBRE’s managing director, head of hotels for EMEA and will enter the role June 2021.
Hatton most recently served as executive vice president of global development and general counsel at Belmond. He has been involved with transactions on both the advisor and principal side for over 350 hotels and mixed-use projects across EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
The appointment is the latest in a series of hire for CBRE’s hotel team, including Chris Gow and Stephen Barr to lead debt advisory for operational real estate business, as well as Joe Green in the capital advisors team. Alister McCutchion has also joined the business to lead CBRE’s UK operational real estate advisory business.
Chris Brett, managing director for EMEA capital markets at CBRE, said: “CBRE recognises the substantial evolution of the hotel sector within investment portfolios over the past few years, driven by strong market performance and investors seeking to diversify. With our clients evermore connected globally, they need a hotel advisory team that can augment market-leading real estate advice with M&A, debt and strategic advisory services. Kenneth will not only bring his global insight, management and leadership but also help shape our hotel services offering to match the post-Covid priorities of global hotel owners, operators and investors.”
Hatton added: “The strength of CBRE’s pan-sector, global platform is truly impressive. As a client, I have seen first-hand the power of when the hotels team joins forces with the wider business. As the entire world of real estate looks at itself in the mirror in light of the pandemic and its aftermath, I can think of no firm better placed to help hotel-industry stakeholders navigate the new realities. The sense of anticipation in the industry has never been greater, and I am excited to join CBRE at this extraordinary moment in time.”
