Caspar P. Schmidt
Founder & CEO of QCC Collection Group
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, he is 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 have 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!
