PPHE Hotel Group welcomes Marcia Bakker to its Board as Independent Director

– NETHERLANDS, Amsterdam –  PPHE Hotel Group (LON: PPH), the international hospitality real estate group today announced the appointment of Marcia Bakker to its Board as an independent non-executive director with immediate effect, bringing the Board to five independent directors.

“I am delighted to welcome Marcia to the Board. Her varied industry background in finance, recruitment and HR, in conjunction with her experience working with large and international corporations will provide invaluable insights for the Board and support our overall long-term growth. Marcia’s appointment further demonstrates our ongoing commitment to strengthen the corporate governance of the Company for the benefit of all stakeholders.” said Board Chairman, Eli Papouchado.

About Marcia Bakker

Marcia Bakker is a finance and executive search expert with extensive professional experience. She began her career as a Certified Public Accountant at KPMG and subsequently built her own business in interim management and recruitment. More recently, Marcia Bakker joined Spencer Stuart as an Executive Search Professional. Marcia is also a non-executive director of the International School for Philosophy.

About PPHE Hotel Group

PPHE Hotel Group is an international hospitality real estate company, with a £1.8 billion portfolio, valued as of December 2021 by Savills and Zagreb nekretnine Ltd (ZANE), of primarily prime freehold and long leasehold assets in Europe.

Through its subsidiaries, jointly controlled entities, and associates it owns, co-owns, develops, leases operates and franchises hospitality real estate. Its portfolio includes full-service upscale, upper upscale, and lifestyle hotels in major gateway cities and regional centers, as well as hotel, resort, and campsite properties in select resort destinations. The Group’s strategy is to grow its portfolio of core upper upscale city center hotels, leisure, and outdoor hospitality and hospitality management platform.

PPHE Hotel Group benefits from having an exclusive and perpetuallicensee from the Radisson Hotel Group, one of the world’s largest hotel groups, to develop and operate Park Plaza branded hotels and resorts in Europe, the Middle Eas,t and Africa. In addition, PPHE Hotel Group wholly owns, and operates under, the art’otel brand, and its Croatian subsidiary owns and operates under, the Arena Hotels & Apartments and Arena Campsites brands.

PPHE Hotel Group is a Guernsey-registered company with shares listed on the London Stock Exchange. PPHE Hotel Group also holds a controlling ownership interest in Arena Hospitality Group, whose shares are listed on the PrimeMarkett of the Zagreb Stock Exchange.

For more information: https://www.pphe.com/

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