Always Well Advised
A sparring partner at eye level, this is how the function of our advisory members can be described. Through regular exchanges with the advisory team, we constantly put processes and projects to the test. In this way, we prevent both operational blindness and the risk of wrong decisions. We act more reflectively.
The entrepreneurial advice from outside also provides new impulses. Our advisory members is characterized by their valuable experience and expertise, which means that different perspectives are taken into account. This contributes to our approach of using tradition as a success factor for innovation.
Learn more about the members of our advisory team here.
Advisory Members
MohanKumar PK
Hotelier Par Excellence fondly known as PKMK, he is a well-respected and recognized personality in the Indian hospitality space. A hard-core operations specialist, he is perhaps the only hotelier in India whose multi decade expertise spans the luxury, premium mid-market & economy brands of hotels. He has also consulted various groups on energy conservation, sustainable growth, green hotels, operations audit, revenue, digital marketing and brand building.
Kashyap Chokshi
Kashyap Choksi, an experienced investment banker having successfully closed many transactions aggregating over eight thousand crores. These cover top business houses across India from various sectors like media, banking, consumer, hospitality, information technology, infrastructure, logistics, healthcare etc. His company is a one stop corporate finance advisory firm and plays a noteworthy role to mid and emerging companies in India.
Shishir Mathur
Shishir brings in over two decades of experience, with functional expertise in business development and strategic growth. He is an experienced problem solver with multi-sector industry knowledge in hospitality, real estate, and telecom. He is a complete people person having a wide network of connections across India and Europe. Shishir has extensive experience in formulating location and format strategy with street-level knowledge of Indian cities and high quality on the spot assessments of site location suitability and associated risks.
Sanjog Modgil
A passionate hotelier with over two decades of track record in luxury and midscale brands with extensive experience across all facets of hotel asset management & operations. He has a wealth of experience in leading the development, design and completion of CAPEX projects in conjunction with third-party managers and franchisers.
Manish Jain
Manish was the Financial Head with Sterling Holidays where he stabilized the finance function and enhanced the deployment of technology in smoothening the operations. Prior to this he was involved with FASSCO, UAE where he implemented enterprise resource planning and helped the company in acquiring key clients in the health-care sector. He has spent over five years in Ginger Hotels as their Chief Financial Officer where he raised capital from private equity and debt from banks to fuel the company’s ambitious growth plans.
Ganesh Kamath
An Entrepreneur with over two decades of expertise in the travel & hospitality segment. He is result oriented with an eye for detail and is well experienced in creating and building businesses in India and the United Arab Emirates. He is known to lead from the front and is committed to ensuring consumer satisfaction and exceeding expectations of owners and stake holders while ensuring delivery of quality. A strong organizer, motivator he provides decisive leadership to organizations to achieve their goals.
Shivdas T
Shivdas is a hospitality technology specialist with over thirty six years of experience. He has worked with various brands of The Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) such as Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, Ginger Hotels and TAJSATS Air Catering. Shivdas has implemented digital transformational initiatives and streamlined business processes across brands.