Arnaud Patat graduated from the Paris-based Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics, has spent the past 20 years building his experience and solid technical expertise as project director in the civil engineering and construction sector.

He has designed and built a wide variety of properties (hotels, corporate head offices, data centers, etc.) spanning over 400,000 sqm in total. He started his career in 1996, with Igape, a Paris-based engineering company, as design and construction project manager. In 2004, he moved to Imogis where he oversaw several large head-office construction projects in and around Paris.In 2010, he became Technical Director at AOS Studley, which has since become a Colliers International Group company. He has in particular supervised the engineering and construction of Carrefour’s new head office and worked on the construction of the Hotel Molitor Paris – Mgallery Collection.

Joining AccorHotels in 2013, he has held HotelInvest’s Technical Division, working closely alongside Head-Office and Country teams, and upgrading and enhancing the Group’s “technical guidelines”, processes and tools by a commitment to build & develop our portfolio within a strategy of sustainable innovation.

Since completing the sale of the capital of AccorInvest, Arnaud Patat has been appointed SVP Digital, Construction and Innovation for AccorInvest.