Article: Armel Santens: home is where the Brown Palace is.(Executive Edge)(Biography)

ARMEL SANTENS HAS DONE EVERYTHING from peeling potatoes and serving fine wines to running room service and the dining room in a small hotel in France, with no days off and little sleep between shifts.

As general manager of a Dallas hotel, he once purchased a red BMW convertible for a Saudi prince who charged it to his room and closed the day with 12 bottles of Dom Perignon for a nightcap.

"He wanted a red BMW convertible just to go shopping; drove it less than 50 miles and then left it in our parking lot," recalls Santens, a 20-year veteran of Quorum Hotels & Resorts who was named managing director of Denver's historic Brown Palace Hotel in 2001.

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