John O’Carroll - FIH MI

Retired Member

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John graduated with Honours from Shannon College of Hotel Management in 1972 and joined the Trust House Forte Graduate Development Programme, spending time at Cornell University, New York. After appointments in London, he moved to Doha, Qatar with Gulf Hotels and then Manila, Philippines as Food & Beverage Manager. He subsequently joined Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation, working in various functions in Asia, Middle East and Europe. In 1989 he was appointed General Manager of the Athenaeum Inter-Continental Hotel in Athens, and Regional Vice President for Operations in the Mediterranean. In 1995 he took up his last appointment at the Hotel Inter-Continental London, responsible for Bass Plc’s hotels in Central London. He retired in 2002.