FOLLOWING an eight-month search, GHM yesterday announced its appointment of a permanent replacement to the preopening/launch general manager for The Chedi Andermatt that debuted a little more than a year ago.
Jean-Yves Blatt now assumes charge of the 101-room hotel succeeding the property’s first general manager, Alain Bachmann, who relocated in July to Indonesia where he now leads The Chedi Club Tanah Gajah Ubud, in Bali.
The 50-year-old native of Switzerland worked at the Grand Park Hotel in Gstaad for the past six years as general manager, as well as the Lausanne Palace Spa and Hotel Le Mirador (now Le Mirador Kempinski) in Mont-Pèlerin.
“Guests of The Chedi Andermatt are looking for the consummate Swiss experience, across every conceivable avenue of their stay, from cuisine to management,” said GHM president Hans R Jenni.
“And in Jean-Yves, after an exhaustive search among managers with a very specific skill set and very compelling experience, we found exactly the leadership we’d hoped to find.”
Two interim general managers shepherded the hotel through 2H2014 before Blatt’s appointment.
