INTEREL Appoints Petvin Fernandes as Senior Vice President - Middle East, Africa and Indian Ocean

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. July 14, 2015

Dubai, UAE. July 14, 2015 - INTEREL, the world's fastest growing manufacturer of integrated room technologies in the luxury hospitality industry, has announced the appointment of Petvin Fernandes as the company's Senior Vice President Middle East, Africa and Indian Ocean. In this role Petvin leads the company's sales and business development in the region.

Petvin brings more than 15 years of international experience to INTEREL of which he spent more than a decade in the United Arab Emirates. He started his career in information technology in his home country, India, after which he moved to Dubai to lead the IT department for the Hilton Dubai Jumeirah and Hilton Dubai Creek hotels for nearly eights years. Prior to joining INTEREL, Petvin held several senior positions for leading hospitality technology vendors in the region, including TeleAdapt and iBAHN.

Florian Gallini, Group CEO of INTEREL, said: "The Middle East and Africa is the fastest- growing market for us at INTEREL as well as our home base. Petvin's extensive experience and vision for the future of our sales division in the region is a great asset to the team."

"I am very happy to be working with the team at INTEREL and to help grow the business in the region," said Petvin. "I am particularly excited about introducing even more hoteliers to the company's award-winning technology innovations."

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About INTEREL

"Providing innovative technology and design leadership in integrated room solutions." Based in Dubai with R&D and manufacturing facilities in Italy, INTEREL is the fastest growing manufacturer of integrated room technologies and energy conservation systems in the luxury hospitality industry, with a footprint across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas. With its vast experience in hospitality industry INTEREL is an approved supplier with more than 15 of the world's leading hospitality and leisure organizations. The company's online room management system offers highly innovative and intelligent solutions for the modern hotelier. Through a combination of cutting-edge technology and uniquely simplified design, the system allows hotel operators to optimize their energy monitoring and consumption and to deliver a greater guest experience. INTEREL's room technology features a wide variety of Italian design wall-mounted and tabletop guest panels that allow for a high level of customization to suit individual hotel and brand standards. In addition, the room management system seamlessly integrates with third party RFID door locks, is enabled with TCP/IP communication at room level, and features cross platform mobility solutions with interfaces to all leading mobility hospitality providers. The company's latest innovation, the 'connectBsmart' Bluetooth beacon network, was voted the most innovative technology in the hospitality industry at the Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG) 2015 TechOvation Awards. It enables brands and hoteliers, when deploying the INTEREL guest room management solution, to seamlessly install and efficiently manage a future-proof, smart Bluetooth beacon infrastructure throughout the property, which provides a turn-key platform for their mobile hospitality service strategies and guest experience visions.

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