Caspar P. Schmidt
With more than 25 years of hospitality experience Caspar brings a valuable, composed, and universal leadership style into the businesses he leads. AQ, and EQ are some of his strongest assets.
Caspar is change-savvy, a driven team motivator, a mentor, and a strategic leader. He understands the “why” and ethos of business and his entrepreneurial drive ensures he makes positive and financial differences in the businesses he leads. Caspar thrives in challenging environments, he continues his constant ongoing studies and network to stay agile, diverse and on the forefront of hospitality.
Strategising, supporting, and leading in the process of accelerating growth is vital. He challenges the process, to analyse the markets we are in to find ways to increase revenues each year for the businesses. Revenue & Yield management is fundamental to leading any business and its part of his DNA.
Talent and team development is key, and Caspar have created and assembled several high calibre c-suite senior leadership teams in the industry with great success. His focus is on creating, aligning, and organising these elements of the organisation ensuring growth, awareness and transparency and ROI to investors.
Caspar is a hotel branding expert, and a pre-opening specialist, who has several years’ experience in operating and leading all aspects of multi-million-dollar hotel portfolios around the world. Caspar has launched and managed 5-star hotels, boutique hotels, apartment hotels, co-working facilities, co-living concepts as well as sustainable 5-star eco retreats. Having led hotel companies as COO and CEO in international markets and driven the expansion and development side of well-known Australian, Asian, and European groups with a focus on exceptional 5-star service, his expertise is extensive, and he is reviewed as a Global forward-thinking hospitality specialist.
In 2019 he founded and setup Boutique Lifestyle Hotel Management Company QCC Collection Group Pty Ltd, working with several investors on projects around in Asia.
QCC is currently working with several high-profile investors on their projects hosting Operator Selections, finding brands, but also delivering feasibility work as well ongoing owner representative work. A large part of this is strategy and helping owners and operators in markets they are not familiar with when it comes to management and operations in general. Besides his work with QCC, Caspar setup the Motif Retreats brand in late 2023 and have spent the last 2 years securing land deals around Australia with investors. The first project in Australia will be announced shortly. The brand focusses on ultra-local sustainable materials, with modular construction as a pivotal part to the roll out into regional areas of our beautiful country.
Caspar also sits on various hospitality advisory boards and spends a lot of time on mentoring and continuously pushing the boundaries for education in the hospitality and tourism industry.He loves the hospitality industry and he loves challenging the status quo!
