? Wim is a Dutch national from the Netherlands and has extensive experience for over 30 years in management at many international leading hotels both in Asia and Europe including the Summit Hotel in Nepal.
During the year 1999 – 2003 he was managing director of the Summit Hotel and Summit Nepal Trekking in Kathmandu before moving to Thailand in 2003 and was working as general manager for Amari Rincome Chiang Mai, after that he transferred to be general manager for Amari Residences Bangkok in 2009. Wim joined Centara Hotels & Resorts in 2012 as general manager of Centara Watergate Pavillion Hotel Bangkok and in 2014 he was promoted to be area general manager Indonesia.
Wim has transferred to corporate office of Centara Hotels & Resorts in Bangkok in the beginning of 2015 prior to joining Centara Grand at Central Plaza Ladprao Bangkok as general manager of the hotel.
Centara Grand at Central Plaza Ladprao Bangkok is the first hotel to be opened by Centara Hotels & Resorts, 30 years ago, and is located near the elevated highway system, the underground Mass Rapid Transit and the BTS Skytrain, thereby ensuring that any district within the city is very easily accessible. The hotel features 565 guestrooms, with seven restaurants and bars, a Spa Cenvaree, fitness centre, swimming pool and other facilities. ??
A covered walkway provides a direct link to the adjacent Central Plaza shopping complex – one of the biggest of its kind in Bangkok with 300 shops, boutiques, restaurants and multiplex cinema. Delegates to events staged at the Bangkok Convention Centre Hall (BCC Hall) can walk to and from the hotel through the same thoroughfare.