Jessica Uekermann, General Manager, Ibis Singapore Novena

Jessica Uekermann has been with Accor since 1998 for her Apprenticeship to rank as Hotel Manageress. She then started to work in 2000 in Novotel Berlin Airport and was Executive Assistant Manager in Mercure Berlin Checkpoint Charlie in 2006 before relocating to Asia – a dream of hers.

From the role of Revenue Manager at Novotel Suvarnabhumi Airport Hotel in Bangkok, she took on the offer to become the General Manager of Ibis Arcadia in Jakarta in 2008. Since then she moved to Vietnam as General Manager of the former Mercure Hue Gerbera and back to Indonesia in 2011. She managed the Novotel Yogyakarta in Central Java for 3 years. During her time in Yogyakarta, she also became a mother. Since 2014 she is now the General Manager of Ibis Singapore Novena.