Our Team
Franz Schweiger
Managing Director
Raised in a family of Austrian winemakers, with a Master’s Degree from Vienna University’s School of Economics and Business Administration and with a broad experience in consulting and auditing Austrian and international hotel and tourism companies, Franz Schweiger takes on the role of Managing Director of the group, bringing his years of expertise and knowledge in business start-up, corporate finance and international tax law…
Edina Hinteregger Von Grienholzegg
Team Coordinator
A native of Bosnia, now living in Austria, Edina was educated in private schools before obtaining a degree in International Finance & Banking at University of Tuzla (BIH) in a dual-degree program with the College of Technology at SUNY in New York City. Following her graduation, Edina started working for a Bosna Bank international in Tuzla, moving to the tourism industry to work for a U.S. cruise line company in Florida and then to a large food import…
Advisory Board
Karim Jalloul
Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1966, Karim Farouk Jalloul moved as a child with his family to Austria. He graduated from the International Center for Hospitality Management MODUL in Vienna in 1993. After working his way through hotel operations, Karim held various management and executive positions aswell as founder & shareholder in the Hospitality Industry, such as an Advisor to the Management Board and Owner’s Representative for a privately-held luxury hotel group….
Christophe Bergen
A U.S. citizen, now a permanent Austrian resident with his wife, Verena, Christophe Bergen was educated in France before graduating from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, serving in the University Senate and as President of the A.D. Phi Literary Society. Christophe lived and worked in luxury hospitality in the U.S., Netherlands,Italy and Austria and is fluent in English, French, Italian and German…
Richard Adam
An Australian national, resident of Germany and Switzerland, Japanese wife, citizen of the world, Richard is a seasoned international C-level executive and board member in asset development, tourism management and investment. Over the last decades Richard has been constantly involved in development of concepts, projects and execution for large scale destinations, resorts, leisure venues, public realm structures…
Dagmar Lund - Durlacher
is Full Professor at the Department of Tourism and Service Management at Modul University Vienna and Visiting Professor and Research Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Tourism at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (Germany). She completed her doctoral studies at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her public speaking, writing and research focuses on Corporate Sustainability …
Enrico Porfido
A PhD Architect with studies and working experiences in Italy, Albania, Norway, Portugal, Brazil and Spain. Enrico’s research focuses on the relationship between tourism, landscape and local communities, investigating the effect on coastal and urban landscapes. Former lecturer at Universiteti Polis in Tirana, in 2018 he was the curator of Tirana Architecture Week 2018 and scientific coordinator of the international scientific conference “[CO]habitation tactics”…