Mandarin Oriental Appoints Jeremy McCarthy as Group Director of Spa

Mandarin Oriental has appointed Jeremy McCarthy as Group Director of Spa.

Mr McCarthy who will be based at the group’s corporate offices in Hong Kong, is a well-known and respected spa professional with twenty-five years of luxury and diversified hotel and leisure services experience.

Mr McCarthy was most recently the Director, Spa Development and Operations of Starwood Hotels and Resorts where he was responsible for expanding the company’s spa division, growing the brand and providing conceptual design advice and project management for new spas. From 1989 to 2006, Mr McCarthy held a number of senior appointments with Four Seasons hotels.

“With his many years of luxury hospitality experience and specialised knowledge of spa operations, I have no doubt that Jeremy will be able to make a significant contribution to the Group’s future success and spa development,” said Richard Baker, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group’s Executive Vice President, Operations – Asia.

A US citizen, Mr McCarthy has served on various Spa Associations including ISPA, Wellness Tourism Worldwide, he is the author of The Psychology of Spas and Wellbeing and Become a Spa Owner and is a regular columnist for spa magazines. He holds a BA in Psychology from the University of California and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mandarin Oriental currently has 44 spa projects open or under development: 20 in Asia; 14 in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and ten in the Americas.