Dan Jakobsen

Taking care of my child at home

Entrepreneur building the future with strong partners

Lead the team & operation creating the next global hotel booking platform with a unique shopping window from the largest online market place on earth. - Make eBay more efficient as a booking platform. - Help Hoteliers fill vacant shoulder, low peak periods by upselling more great deals. - Cross sell sister products such as IBE, Cultswitch Channel Manager & Mapping Master.

As a consultant commercially drive a low cost hostel operator with more than 1500 beds in London to new heights.

Currently advising and offering help to hoteliers and gastronomy professionals. - General operation and management issues - CRM, PMS, GDS and channel management software options - New openings - Refurbishments and re-branding - Sales - Revenue Management - Yielding - HR - Food & Beverage - HACCP - Social Media - Event management

General Manager for the most trendy and innovative hostel in Hamburg and northern Germany Rate and revenue management based on market conditions. Supplier and network building for sustainability and future. Improve & maintain service levels to above and beyond 24/7 by a team that can & will do. Develop local sales in line with company growth and market share shift. Supporting project sales development in Central Europe for 8 Generator units.

Selling one of the top of the range Channel Manager suites and revenue management connectivity modules across the entire European market place

Hotel General manager

Development and driving revenue growth on corporate and MICE segments within EMEA for all IHG hotels. Amongst my held accounts were: Coca-Cola Sainsbury Novo Nordisk NovoZymes AP Moller UPS EWS Rail JTI (Japan Tobacco International) Built from scratch

- Managing day & night time entertainment & events - Staging themed food and beverage evenings in hotels restaurant outlets - providing Guests service and complaint management - Organising excursions locally for guests in the hotels.