Charlie MacGregor

Charlie MacGregor is a Scottish entrepreneur, CEO and founder of The Student Hotel,[1] and co-founder of NGO Movement on the Ground.[2] MacGregor was born and raised in Edinburgh,[3] before buying a student housing company aged 25.[4]

Charlie MacGregor
Born
Charles MacGregor Scotland
Residence
The Netherlands
Occupation
CEO, The Student Hotel

The Student Hotel (TSH)

MacGregor founded TSH in 2006[1] as a hotel chain and co-working space based in Amsterdam that caters for students, business travelers and holiday-makers.[5] Locations include Amsterdam, Paris, Florence, Dresden and Rotterdam.[1]

The Student Hotel has raised investments including €150 million (£118m) from Perella Weinberg Real Estate in 2014[6] and €100 million from APG in 2015.[7] The chain is currently investing €1.8bn in its international growth strategy[8] and plans to open 41 sites by 2021.[9]

Under MacGregor’s leadership, TSH has been acknowledged by Deloitte as one of 51 best managed companies in the Netherlands 2017-18,[10] achieving Gold status, having been included for more than four years.

Movement on the Ground

MacGregor is also a co-founder and member of Movement on the Ground,[2] a non-profit foundation responding to the global refugee crisis.[11]

After visiting Lesvos, Greece, in 2015, MacGregor came up with the idea for The Movement Hotel:[12] a temporary hotel run by asylum seekers, as a way for them to gain experience,[13] with profits reinvested to train more refugees.[14]

The hotel was located in Bijlmerbajes prison, a former prison in Amsterdam,[15] and opened in September 2017.[16] In the same building other successful initiatives took place. Refugee Company foundation[17] opened restaurant A Beautiful Mess,[18] which won Entree Awards’ Best off the Grid Award in 2017.[19]

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  10. "Results Best Managed Companies 2017 | Deloitte Nederland". Deloitte Nederland (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  11. "Movement on the Ground". UEFA Foundation. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  12. "The Movement Hotel". The Movement Hotel. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  13. "The Movement hotel | Former Prison the Bijlmerbajes temporarily run by asylum seekers | horecatrends.com". horecatrends.com. 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  14. Karabell, Shellie. "Putting Business To Work On The Refugee Crisis: Welcome To Amsterdam's Refugee Hotel". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  15. "Pop-up hotel in former prison is run by refugees - TOPHOTELNEWS". TOPHOTELNEWS. 2018-04-17. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  16. Wedia. "Prison turned hotel helps refugees integrate into Dutch society". Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  17. http://www.refugeecompany.com
  18. "About – A Beautiful Mess". www.abeautifulmess.nl. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  19. Os, Britt van (2017-11-28). "Best off the Grid 2017: A Beautiful Mess". www.entreemagazine.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-09-27.
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