Find out about Our Members

The Master Innholders is a well respected, prestigious force within the hotel industry – an elite corps which is publicly recognised as a standard bearer for the industry.

It aims to influence standards and extend professionalism within the industry; to promote consideration, study, discussion and research in the areas affecting hotel management including management development, training, education and recruitment.

All Members

Richard Ball FIH MI

Executive Chairman, Calcot Manor

Richard Is Executive Chairman and founding director of The Calcot Collection, a small privately owned hotel company with 3 hotels in Gloucestershire, and one in Northumberland. Richard was Chairman of…

Graham Bamford FIH MI

Clerk, Worshipful Company of Farmers

Graham Bamford has extensive experience in some of the finest hotels both in this country and abroad, such as the Savoy and Claridge’s and Le Beau Rivage Palace in Lausanne. In 1990 he moved to Singap…

Craig Bancroft FIH MI

Managing Director, Northcote Group

Craig Bancroft is Managing Director at Northcote, a Michelin Star Boutique Hotel set in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire. Since joining the hotel as General Manager in 1983 with Nigel Haworth he has focu…

Graeme C Bateman

Managing Director, Elite Hotels

Graeme has been Managing Director of Elite Hotels comprising of Ashdown Park, East Sussex, Tylney Hall, Hampshire, The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, and Luton Hoo Hotel, Bedfordshire, since 1998, following…

Sally Beck

General Manager, Royal Lancaster London

Sally Beck is General Manager of Royal Lancaster London, one of London’s largest independent hotels, with 411 bedrooms, three restaurants and bars and some of the largest banqueting space in Europe. …

Laurence Beere FIH MI

Proprietor, Queensberry Hotel

Laurence joined the Savoy Group management training scheme straight from school in 1987. Apart from a short stint at the Palace Hotel in Gstaad, he spent 10 years with the Savoy Group, ending up as Fo…