Fifth generation joins Seymour Hotels

Monday 09 October 2017

Seymour Hotels of Jersey has announced that Matthew Seymour recently joined the family business as Group Operations Co-ordinator.

Matthew Seymour is the 5th generation of the Seymour family to join the company, chaired by his grandfather, Robin Seymour.

Mr Seymour graduated from the University of Gloucestershire in 2009 with a BA Honours degree in Marketing and Events management. Since then he has worked for a global sports and music marketing agency where he co-ordinated various large scale sponsorship engagements for FTSE 100 and blue chip organisations such as HSBC, NatWest, Tesco and Vodafone. Upon returning to Jersey, he managed Jersey’s largest surf school. More recently, he worked in fiduciary services; firstly for Pentera Trust Company and then for Sanne Group where he worked in the Private Client department as a senior administrator supporting family offices and Ultra High Net Worth individuals.

Matthew Seymour said: “I’m hugely proud of my family’s hospitality heritage and following in the footsteps of the generations before me is something I have always aspired to. I’m looking forward to supporting the dedicated staff and management who currently work for the Group and to developing the business with them for many years to come."

David Seymour, Managing Director of Seymour Hotels and Matthew’s father, said: "The whole family is delighted that Matthew has joined the Group. It is very unusual in this day and age to encounter businesses which have remained under the control of a single family name for five generations. Matthew, along with his sister Stephanie, who has been working in the Company for the last five years, are very much the future. Their enthusiasm, passion and commitment provide us all with great confidence for the continued success of Jersey’s, even possibly the Channel Islands’, longest established hotel group."

The Group was originally established in 1920 by Matthew Seymour's great grandfather, George Frederick Seymour, together with his great, great grandfather, George Andrew Seymour.