HRS Group has announced that it is expanding its management team with five new appointments.
Flavio Ghiringhelli, who has been with HRS since September 2012, joins the management team with his promotion to vice president of corporate solutions, South-West & Eastern Europe. Before joining HRS, Ghiringhelli worked for easyJet and Meridiana.
Meanwhile, Dirk Schmidt takes over the North-Central Europe region as managing director corporate solutions, having joined HRS in October 2015. In his new role, he will work alongside Kimi Jiang and Suzanne Neufang, vice presidents, corporate solutions, for Asia-Pacific and the Americas respectively. Previously, he was vice president and general manager in several companies, including Novell and Attachmate Group.
As HRS opens up new service areas globally, further management-level appointments have also been made.
Responsible for raising the MICE business to a global scale, Oliver May joins as global lead MICE/strategy at HRS. Previously, May held the role of executive vice president at Meetago.
Jeff Hillenmayer joins the American team as head of corporate sourcing, Americas and will be strengthening HRS’ sourcing position in the market. Hillenmayer is a former employee of Lanyon where he worked as vice president service.
Finally, Eduardo Murad joins HRS to take over the role of director of sales in Brazil. Eduardo was formerly president of Alagev (Latin American Association of Events and Corporate Travel Managers).
