Christoph Oberli

Chris joined Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group from Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok in 1999. Being part of the global corporate marketing structure, he was involved in several reservations and revenue management related projects. In 2001, he started to focus primarily on internet distribution with the implementation of a private label booking engine. Since then, his role has expanded to completely oversee the Mandarin Oriental website presence including their languages sites, the mobile strategy as well as all of its online & search marketing efforts for the luxury hotel operator. In 2007, Chris moved to New York City to manage his teams in the US and Hong Kong as well as the vendor partnerships from the USA corporate office. His most significant recent accomplishment is a complete re-launch of Mandarin Oriental’s digital presence in late 2012 with a fully re-designed website, offered in 7 languages, a sophisticated mobile presence and a new booking platform all supported but state of the art back end technology. Under Chris’ responsibility, Mandarin Oriental launched a completely new digital presence across desktop, tablet and mobile in 9 languages in late 2012 which has won the Group several prestigious awards and resulted in an online growth of over 20%.