The Senior Team

Nicholas Crawley

• Nicholas has over 40 years of experience of owning and operating hotels throughout the UK and Europe. Until 2019 he had a day to day a role as Managing Director of St James’s Hotel Group and was overseeing the profitable operation of the fourteen hotels in the Group.
• Throughout his career he has focused on hotel acquisition, selection, operations, sales and marketing, human resources, property management, brand development and refurbishment.
• Previous roles have included being a Chairman of the Isle de France Hotel St Barths, Director of Akkeron Hotels, Director of The Scotsman Hotel Group Ltd, Managing Director of Regal Hotel Group PLC (a group of 130 hotels), Chairman of Hotel Apartment PLC, Director of Hotels Division of Parkdale Holdings PLC. He co-founded and was Director of Historic House Hotels and started his career in the management of hotels training at The Savoy Hotel Group.

Simon Porter

• A senior executive with 30 years of extensive experience in the Hotel, Restaurant, Casino and Leisure Industries in a number of operational and corporate roles both in the UK and overseas.
• Simon has had a successful hotel asset and property management consultancy business DestINNation Ltd.
• A senior consultant for St James’s Hotel Group, overseeing the estate, corporate affairs IT, and procurement.
• Project team member for the +£50m developments of Hotel Indigos in Bath and Stratford-Upon-Avon completing in 2019.
• Previous roles have included Director of Estates and Corporate Affairs for Akkeron Hotels.
• Corus Hotels in various roles – including corporate affairs and Group Property Asset Manager with responsibility for the £360 million disposal of over 100 hotels over a 4-year period.
• Simon has as well as property a very strong food and beverage background having owned his own restaurant and bar, in addition to senior roles at Sodexho Loisirs, The Restaurant Partnership (including Food & Beverage hotel outsourcing), London Clubs Casino Group. He began his career at Hilton Vista Hotels.

Sam Hurst

• Sam through his company Accumulus Accounting provides specialised hospitality outsourced account and hotel management finance solutions.
• Payroll and invoice processing
• Preparation and presentation of the budget, monthly management accounts, profit & loss and key performance indicator metrics, as well as producing the Company balance sheet and year end accounts.