Christine Schillings, internationally renowned hospitality industry manager, takes over the executive management of the Swiss educational group winsedswiss in Romania

Christine Schillings, with more than 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry, will join the Swiss educational group winsedswiss (World Institute of Service Education) as Chief Executive Officer for Romania.

The new CEO has worked in the operational sphere in hotels in France, Germany, the UK and Romania, where he was part of the management team that opened the Athénée Palace Hilton Hotel. 

For 16 years, he also served as Regional Director of Hilton Worldwide, managing a portfolio of 46 hotels in Eastern Europe, Turkey, Russia and Israel. He led, as general manager, the Ana Hotels Romania group, and since June 2018 has held the position of general manager of Crowne Plaza Hotel Bucharest. 

A Belgian national, she graduated from the Hotel Management School in Brussels and then specialised in Asset Management, Project Management at Cornell University.

In addition to the business area, another activity in which she invests a lot of energy is professional training, specialising in leadership courses for future managers. 

"I am honoured to join the Winsedswiss team that is developing a unique educational project in Romania. I intend, through my own experience, to strengthen this brand through concrete actions that add value to education, offer fantastic career opportunities anywhere in the world and meet the current major requirement of having trained human resources, adapted to the evolution of the services market", says Christine Schillings.

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The Swiss educational group winsedswiss (World Institute of Service Education), with branches in Romania, Switzerland and Serbia, has as its main objective the creation and implementation of educational programmes for every period of a person's life, from kindergarten to university and throughout their professional career. These programmes cover the service sector, from hospitality and retailing to health, sports and luxury management. To this end, winsedswiss develops partnerships with the most renowned educational institutions in the field.