HAMILTON, Bermuda, June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Orient-Express
Hotels Ltd. (NYSE: OEH) (http://www.orient-express.com), owners and operators
of 50 deluxe leisure properties in 25 countries, today announced that
Mitchell C. Hochberg has been elected to the Board of Directors at the
Company's Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on June 5, 2009.
Mr. Hochberg has been the Managing Principal of Madden Capital LLC, a
real estate investment, development and advisory firm since March 2007,
having joined from Ian Schrager Company, a developer and manager of
innovative luxury hotels and residential projects in the United States, where
he was President and Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to this, Mr. Hochberg founded, and for 20 years, was the President
and Chief Executive Officer of Spectrum Communities and its successor,
developers of luxury home communities in the north eastern United States.
Mr. Hochberg is a lawyer and a certified public accountant.
This brings to eight the members of Orient-Express Hotels' Board of
Directors, the others are: James B. Hurlock, Chairman, John D. Campbell,
Prudence M. Leith, J. Robert Lovejoy, Georg R. Rafael, James B. Sherwood and
Paul M. White, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Orient-Express, (http://www.orient-express.com) the name behind an elite
collection of travel experiences first came into being in 1883 as one of the
world's most exciting and indulgent train journeys. Today those same two
evocative words also embrace hotels, cruises and other luxury rail
adventures. The Company has offered exceptional luxury travel experiences
since 1976, when the company first purchased Hotel Cipriani in Venice and
then shortly afterwards, recreated the celebrated Venice
Simplon-Orient-Express. Today, the company owns or part-owns and manages 50
businesses, 40 of which are highly acclaimed hotels, each unique in style,
from the Mount Nelson in Cape Town and Rio's Copacabana Palace, to the Grand
Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg and Maroma Resort & Spa on Mexico's Riviera
Maya. There are two restaurants, including '21' in New York, two river cruise
operations and six luxury tourist trains.
Contact:
Martin O'Grady
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Tel: +44-20-7921-4038
E: martin.ogrady@orient-express.com
Pippa Isbell
Vice President, Corporate Communications
Tel: +44-20-7921-4065
E: pippa.isbell@orient-express.com
SOURCE Orient-Express Hotels Ltd
