Anna Skigin

Founder and CEO, Frank Porter

Anna Skigin is the founder and CEO of Frank Porter, a hassle-free Airbnb management company launched in Dubai in 2017. Frank Porter maximizes returns for the owners, by renting out properties short-term via platforms such as Airbnb, Booking.com, and their own Frank Porter booking site.

With a strong background in hospitality and extensive international experience, Anna understands quality and brings that to everything she does. An accomplished leader, she inspires a talented and international team, ensuring five-star guest experiences and higher returns for the hosts. With her extensive professional background, Anna is involved in every aspect of the business, from strategy to operations, and seeing that the Frank Porter standard is never compromised.

In the business of property management, there needs to be trust. Anna understands that inherently, having worked with international clients in all domains– from being a private banker in the prominent Rothschild group in Geneva, Switzerland, to client advisory at the world’s leading auction houses, Sotheby’s and Phillips, in London, UK. A serial entrepreneur at heart, Anna has previously successfully developed and launched an Italian new-style restaurant concept PANZO in London, from the ground up.

Anna has a good eye for styling and detail, having worked with and around art and design extensively throughout her life. Her creativity extends to all aspects of Frank Porter. With uncompromising dedication to quality and excellence, Anna aims to grow Frank Porter on an international scale. Anna is a dual Russian and Canadian national, having studied finance and economics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She has a master’s of art and design degree from Christie’s Education in London. Fluent in English, Russian, and French, Anna enjoys yoga, skiing, art, and literature.

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