Rene Camilleri & Associates
Managing Director of Rene Camilleri & Associates.
Reynold Camilleri (Managing Director)
Reynold, or Rene’ as his friends know him by is a native of the island of Malta and has spent more than 30 years committed to the Hospitality Industry across various functions in Finance, Operations, Marketing, Sales and Distribution. Rene’s earlier career was with a number of independent hotels before joining Le Meridien in Malta and thereafter enjoyed 15 years in Starwood Hotels and Marriott International.
Rene’ started his career in finance moving up the ranks and eventually held a position as Director of
Finance with a large independent hotel company in Malta for a number of years. With over ten years of experience, Rene’ took a leap of faith and started an Accountancy practice focussing on Hospitality and FMCG clients. This lasted for five or so years before being offered a General Manager position managing two hotels with what was then his largest customer in his private practice.
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Rene’ found his true passion though in Sales, Marketing & Distribution were he has held various positions on property as well as corporate office. After a number of successful hotel openings in Malta, Croatia and Abu Dhabi, he took on a role leading the Starwood Global Sales Organization in Middle East & Africa. The three year tenure saw relentless growth with new offices resulting in significant growth in market presence and share in key GCC and African markets.
The journey in Sales continued with a new role as Regional Director of Sales & Distribution for Africa and responsible for the top-line strategy of over 40 hotels across the continent for Starwood and eventually taking on the same role in Marriott. In his most recent role, Rene was leading the Distribution Strategy for Marriott International for Middle East & Africa with its quasi 300 hotels. Rene has been a frequent public speaker at various Sales & Distribution conferences, forums and events and enjoys some great relationships with the various hotel owner groups across Africa and the Middle East as well as key global industry leaders.
Rene’s second passion in life is aviation and is an avid pilot with over 1,500 hours. Whereas generally he is a reserved person, he can talk passionately for hours on end about the various flying trips in Africa, the various aircraft types, engines and aviation technology. Together with his wife Maryam, they are involved in providing tangible support to underprivileged girls in Northern Nigeria with their education, something they are both very passionate about.