Mikhail Kolesnik is appointed as Director, Development for the Russia and CIS at Marriott International Inc.

Mikhail Kolesnik will be responsible for the strategic development planning of the company, cooperation and work with investors and developers for the further expansion of brands of the Marriott International in Russia and CIS countries.

Mikhail graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy in 2003. He had been working for more than 5 years as a lawyer and project manager at Solver Group in the commercial real estate located in the Siberian Federal District.

In 2008 Mikhail graduated from the Master of Science programme in strategic tourism management affiliated of SKEMA Business School. Mikhail worked in the Moscow office at Horwath HTL Russia.

Since 2009 Mikhail was responsible for Moscow representative office and all Hospitality activities with BrokerCom, a commercial real estate broker. During 2009 Mikhail has been involved in the project management of the luxury hotel construction project in the center of Moscow. In 2010 Mikhail also was Investment Consultant at DTZ.