Yilmaz Yildirimlar started his career within Rezidor Group at Radisson BLU Palais Hotel Vienna in 1995. He became soon Financial Controller at the same hotel and, in the next years, turned into Regional Controller for South East Europe in addition to Operations Manager duties.
His next appointment was in Amsterdam, as Director of Operations, where he stayed untill 2007, when he moved to Manchester, taking the full control of Radisson BLU Hotel Manchester as General Manager. His professional growth was also academically sustained, with an MBA in finance, CPE Programme BAHA at Oxford Brooks University, BA in Hotel & Restaurant Management at Washington State University, USA.