About Dariusz Futoma

About

Dariusz Futoma’s association with the hotel industry stretches back 18 years. His extensive strategic and operational experience comes from the Polish hotel market as well as those further to the east. Prior to finding his way to consulting, he worked as a sales and marketing director at the Jan III Sobieski hotel, simultaneously coordinating the Polish Prestige Hotels & Resorts in Poland marketing programme. During the course of his five year work at the Rezidor Group chain, he was the sales and marketing director at the Radisson SAS in Kiev, Ukraine (the first international hotel in Ukraine), and then worked at one of the largest hotels in Europe, the 1200 room Park Inn by Radisson Pribaltiyskaya in Saint Petersburg( simultaneously he was reponsiblee for coordination of sales department hotel Park Inn Pulkovskaya 840 rooms, St.Petersburg), Russia. Upon his return to Poland in 2009, he assumed the General Manager’s position at the Scandic Gdańsk hotel and then became president of the board at the Investon company in Poland. In recent years responsible for the outsourcing boom in the hotel industry, amongst others in Russia and during the Olympics in Soczi.

As a hotel industry advisor Dariusz is involved in the activities aimed to the development of the hotel industry in Poland.

These include:

• co-organizer the main hotel industry conference – Hotel &Tourism Trends

• the co-author of Hotel Guidebook - the only Polish guide for hotel investors

• a speaker at many industry conferences (CE Hotel Investment Conference, Property Forum Poland and others)

Dariusz graduated Law and Administration at Warsaw University, Executive MBA Rotterdam of School of Management & Gdańsk Association in Management Education, Erasmus Graduate School of Business, GFKM( 2004).