Nicholas Rettie - FIH MI

Director

MRMD

Having completed the Savoy Hotel’s five year management training programme, a year at Le Bristol in Paris, a year in Cologne and various assistant management roles, his first GM position was at The Athenaeum, on Piccadilly. In 1991 he became GM of The Halkin, a privately owned and newly opened boutique hotel in Belgravia. This was followed by opening and managing The Metropolitan on Park Lane. Both hotels were in the forefront of the revival of London’s hotels and restaurants during the 1990s. He then joined Sir Terence Conran and his co-investor as Managing Director of the Great Eastern Hotel to oversee its £65m reconstruction and restoration in 1999 as the City’s leading hotel. Following the sale of the GEH to Hyatt in 2006, with two colleagues he set up MRMD, a company providing pre-opening and operational management services for a number of hotels in London and the Home Counties, and two in Moscow.