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Watch what your CV says about you
SINGAPORE – Patrick Imbardelli, chief executive of InterContinental Hotels in Asia Pacific, and a prospective board member at the leisure group, has quit with immediate effect after it discovered that he had falsified his CV.
“This is a very serious matter and we have treated it very seriously,” a spokesman for InterContinental Hotels told The Times Online.
Birte Sebastian, IHG Asia/Pacific director of corporate communications, confirmed to Travelmole that Imbardelli, who earned around £350,000 a year, had left the company.
Imbardelli, who joined InterContinental in 2000, told the company when he applied for his job that he had three university degrees, a company spokesman said.
Imbardelli had claimed a Batchelor of Arts from Victoria University in Australia and a Batchelor of Sciences and a Masters from Cornell University in America, the spokesman said.
But following an internal review after InterContinental announced plans in May to promote Imbardelli to the main board, it was discovered that he had none of these qualifications.
“While he attended classes at the universities, he did not graduate,” the spokesman said. He said that the company had discovered the anomaly after viewing “internal information” but he declined to confirm whether there had been a whistleblower.
Imbardelli joined Bass, the forerunner to InterContinental, in 2000. After taking on a number of management roles with Hilton International and Hyatt Corporation, he became the managing director of Asia Pacific for IHG in 2003.
The 46-year-old will receive no payoff, although IHG has agreed to pay him for another two months to give him time to arrange the transfer of his family from Singapore, where his office is based, back to Australia. He is married with two children, aged two and four.
Tony South, currently the senior vice-president of development and asset management for Asia Pacific at IHG, becomes the acting chief executive with immediate effect.
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