Constellation Hotels names industry veteran as CEO of new collection

Neil Jacobs, formerly CEO of Six Senses, is joining Constellation Hotels’ new luxury hospitality management business.

The new collection, as yet unnamed, will provide a platform for Constellation Hotels to build on its existing portfolio, which includes London hotels the Connaught, the Emory and the Berkeley.

As CEO of the new global brand, Jacobs will head up the planned growth of an international portfolio of hotels, resorts and residences.

The new operating company will oversee operations and assume management across the London properties, as well as of new hotels entering the group.

Each hotel sitting within the new collection will retain its existing name and individual identity.

The wider collection will be unveiled in full later this year. It is set to include Constellation Hotels’ forthcoming Saint-Germain hotel in Paris, a development in Marrakesh and English country estate Hackwood Park.

A forward-looking industry figure

Jacobs brings decades of operational, development, financing and brand-building expertise.

As CEO of Six Senses, he transformed the company from a niche resort brand into a globally recognised leader in wellness and experiential travel.

Prior to Six Senses, Jacobs held senior leadership roles at Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts and Starwood Capital Group. He also founded creative advisory collective Wild Origins.

“This starting point gives us the freedom to rethink what exceptional hotel environments can be,” Jacobs said. “Beyond impeccable rooms and service, our focus will be on places with an energy you can feel as soon as you walk in.

“From these distinctive foundations, we’re crafting a forward-looking global collection, defined by quality, warmth and a genuine sense of joy.”

Jacobs will work alongside Gianluca Muzzi, chief executive officer of Constellation Hotels, to build the new business from the ground up.

Muzzi said that building an in-house hospitality management business was central to Constellation’s long-term ambitions for the portfolio, giving it the means to invest in the properties, the brand and the people behind them.

“Constellation’s ambition is to be a thoughtful, long-term steward of our exceptional portfolio of hotels,” Muzzi added.

“Establishing our own hospitality management business is an important step in that strategy, giving us the capability to invest in the properties themselves, as well as in the brand, people and operating platform that will support their enduring success.”

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