Northside Consulting Company Limited (NCCL), one of Asia-Pacific’s leading hospitality consulting firms, announces the appointments of Oscar Hauptman and Doug Meredith as Principals who will be responsible for leading hospitality companies to improved new hotel opening project performance, enabling them to open hotels more effectively and efficiently.
Their combined experiences and knowledge in hotel openings, project and innovation management will further strengthen Northside Consulting’s existing client relationships and develop new ones.
Dr. Oscar Hauptman, with a PhD in Management of Technological Innovation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has more than 30 years of international experience as a hands-on academic and business consultant, with global expertise in project, program and innovation management.
As a consultant, Oscar conducted numerous international professional training seminars and consulting projects, including Port of Singapore Authority, Tata Motors, Tenix Defence Systems, Tata Motors, Malaysian Agricultural R&D Institute, Intel, Polaroid, UNIDO, International Wool Secretariat, ICI Explosives, and Schmidt Vietnam. Oscar’s executive positions include managing director of a high-technology incubator; founder and president of boutique consulting firms specializing in high-technology management and investment; and project management of new product development. He has been a non-executive director of technology-intensive start-ups.
Oscar has taught MBAs, Executives and PhDs as faculty member at Harvard Business School, Carleton University (Canada), Melbourne Business School, and Western Sydney University. He has held visiting positions in Singapore Management University, IMD (Switzerland), the Israel Institute of Technology, University of Cape Town, KIMEP University (Kazakhstan), and recently at Saint Joseph University, Macau SAR, China.
Doug Meredith, MBA, CPA, with more than 35 years’ experience in the international hotel and tourism industries in senior executive, advisory and consulting roles, in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and the Pacific brings a pragmatic general and financial management dimension to our project management team. He has been a member of teams tasked with identifying hotel market opportunities and then researching, planning, developing, building and opening international class hotels.
Doug’s analytical skills blended with a practical, hands-on approach to project management and post-opening strategic and business plan implementation has seen his services in high demand from both established and first-time investors and developers in the hotel market. His low-profile, professional technique and drive to “get the job done” and crystalise desired outcomes is a stand-out feature of his contribution to our team.
Doug commenced his career in the international hotel industry in 1979 when he was recruited to become a member of the senior executive team drawn together to stabilise and successfully grow a struggling hotel owning and operating company, through re-development of existing strategic sites as well as through acquisitive and organic growth. The lessons he learned from that hotel development experience continue to stand him in good stead today, for the benefit of our clients.
“We are delighted to welcome these regional heavy-weights to the team,” said Gert Noordzy, Managing Director, Northside Consulting. “Oscar and Doug are proven leaders in their fields of expertise. Their vast expertise and complementing skillsets will further strengthen delivery of the value proposition to our clients.”
Gert Noordzy, Managing Director NCCL, gert.noordzy@northside-consulting.com.
Northside Consulting Company Limited (NCCL) is a boutique consulting firm, specializing in new hotel opening processes, and Organizational Project Management for the hospitality industry. Services provided include pre-opening support for new hotel projects, and new hotel opening project performance improvement.
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