SPEAKER

Borivoj Vokrinek

Partner - Strategic Advisory & Head of Hospitality Research EMEA
Cushman & Wakefield

Borivoj Vokrinek (Borik) is a seasoned hospitality professional with over 25 years of experience across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific, including operational and corporate roles. His current responsibility at Cushman & Wakefield is to lead and co-ordinate the strategic hospitality advisory, research, and asset management activities across the EMEA region. Borik also works with Cushman & Wakefield’s dedicated ESG team on hospitality-related sustainability assignments such as hotel ESG audits, Net Zero assessments, ESG regulation compliance reviews, sustainability certifications or climate risk assessments. Prior to joining C&W, Borik was the Regional Vice President of Feasibility & Development Finance for EMEA & South-West Asia at Hyatt Hotels Corporation. He also spent more than six years at Hilton Worldwide, where he headed the Feasibility & Investment Analysis team for the European & African region, based both at Hilton’s EMEA HQ in the UK and Istanbul. His exposure to the Asia Pacific market includes two years in Shanghai and nearly three years in Sydney. _x000D_ _x000D_ Borik holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a Master of Science in International Economic Relations from the University of Economics in Prague, a bachelor’s degree in Hotel Management from the Hotel School Sydney and an MBA from Bond University in Gold Coast, Australia.