Speaker profile

Paul Boldy
RLA Global

Paul is the Managing Director of RLA Middle East. He has worked across the Middle East and Africa for the past 17 years, representing Operators, Owners and Developers with feasibility studies, technical and design services, renovation and improvement plans as well as operational consulting services for various hospitality and leisure assets. A thought leader in the Hospitality Sector, Paul has helped shape Hotel projects across all stages, from development to design and through pre-opening to operation, representing the full life cycle of the hotel asset with dynamic results.

Paul is known for his strategic and analytical approach to Hotel assets and has developed an innovative approach to hospitality projects to promote communication and understanding for hotel investments and capital expenditure projects to deliver high-value assets. Paul has written a number of articles on the use of metric and data-driven design for hotel projects.

Formerly the Regional Manager for Architecture, Design and Construction for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Head of Hotels for the Artelia Group and Director of Projects for Jumeirah Hotels.