Raffles Hotels & Resorts has appointed Mr Thomas B. Meier as Area General Manager, South East Asia & China and Mr Riaz Mahmood as Area General Manager, Indo-China. These appointments were recently announced by Mrs Diana Ee-Tan, Managing Director of Raffles Hotels & Resorts and Executive Vice President of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Asia Pacific.

Mr Meier joined Raffles Hotels & Resorts in early 2000 and was the Hotel Manager/ General Manager at Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh. In 2002, he moved to Singapore where he assumed the position of General Manager, Swissotel The Stamford before helming the fort at Raffles The Plaza in September 2004. A graduate of the Lausanne Hotel Management School (EHL), Mr Meier possesses more than 10 years of management experience in various countries in Asia.

Mr Mahmood joined Raffles Hotels and Resorts in 2000 as the Operations Manager of Swissotel Sydney. In 2003 he moved to Cambodia where he assumed the position of Hotel Manager of the Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor, Siem Reap and in 2005 he was appointed General Manager of both Raffles Hotel Le Royal, Phnom Penh and Raffles Grand Hotel d`Angkor. A graduate of Thames Valley University, Mr Mahmood has more than 15 years of management experience in Asia and Australia.