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» Company Introduction
» History of the Taj
» Our Hotels
» Management
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Mr. Raymond
Bickson
Managing Director & Chief
Executive Officer
Raymond Bickson’s experience in hospitality spans thirty years and four
continents. In January 2003, Mr. Bickson moved to India and joined the Board as Executive Director
& Chief Operating Officer of Taj Luxury Hotels, overseeing the operations of all luxury properties
and playing a key role in the global expansion and development of future hotels. He assumed the role as
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of The Indian Hotels Company Limited in July 2003.
Mr. Bickson brings extensive international hotel experience to the Taj Group in operations and management.
He most recently served fifteen years as the Vice President & General Manager of The Mark in New York for
The Rafael Group Hoteliers Monaco and with the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. His career includes a variety
of management assignments for over ten years with Regent International Hotels in New York, Chicago, Dallas,
Puerto Rico, Melbourne and Shanghai, as well as training at some of the world’s most renowned hotels
as the Hotel Plaza Athenee Paris, Le Montreux Palace Switzerland and the Kahala Hilton Hawaii.
An American national, Mr. Bickson attended the École Hôteličre Lausanne in Switzerland and Advanced Management
Programme at Harvard Business School. He was voted one of the Top 10 Best Hotel Managers by Leaders Magazine
from 1997-2002. Mr. Bickson is a Member of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), International Business Leaders
Forum (IBLF) and is an advisory board member of The Leading Hotels of The World (LHW), Cornell Hotel School Centre
for Hospitality Research and Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne in Switzerland.
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Mr. Anil P. Goel
Executive Director - Finance
Anil Goel is charged with the task of overseeing the Taj Group’s Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Purchase and Legal & Secretarial functions. With over 25 years of experience in the Tata Group in various financial roles, including Chief Financial Officer of Tata Tea, he brings a unique understanding of fiscal responsibility to Taj. Anil is also a Non-Executive Director in Taj GVK Limited, Oriental Hotels Limited, amongst others.
Anil graduated with Honors from Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi and is a Chartered Accountant.
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Mr. Abhijit Mukerji
Executive Director – Hotel Operations
Abhijit Mukerji oversees hotel operations of the Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces which includes Taj Luxury Hotels – India and International, Taj Business Hotels, Taj Leisure Hotels, Taj Spas, Taj Trade and Transport and Inditravels.
A career hotelier, Mr. Mukerji’s experience spans 22 years and four continents. He has spent almost 10 years as a General Manager and run several hotels that have won international acclaim under his stewardship. His last assignment was as Chief Operating Officer – Taj Luxury Hotels, India.
Mr. Mukerji is an alumnus of Cornell (ESSEC) and Harvard Business School (GMP), and has a flair for European languages.
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Mr. Ajoy K. Misra
Sr. Vice
President, Sales and Marketing
In his 28 years with the Taj Group, Ajoy Misra has worked in various capacities, from sales and marketing to operations. Ajoy joined the Taj in 1980 in the Corporate Sales and Marketing Department through the Tata Administrative Services. He served as General Manager of the Taj President in Mumbai and Area Director in the Sri Lanka and Maldives regions. Today, Ajoy represents Taj in industry organizations such as the World Travel and Tourism Council, India Initiative (WTTC II), World Tourism Organisation (WTO), Hotel Association of India (HAI), Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
Ajoy Misra holds a degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA from Delhi University.
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Mr. Prakash V. Shukla
Sr.
Vice President, Technology and Chief Information
Officer
With over 20 years experience in
the information technology industry, Prakash
Shukla brings valuable expertise to the expanding
network of Taj Hotels. He is currently responsible
for total IT deployments at the Taj Group and is
on MD’s management committee. With a background in
some of the industry’s most venerable
corporations—Unisys / Sperry and IBM—Prakash has
provided IT solutions for numerous clients: Morgan
Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Solomon
Smith Barney.
An American national, Mr.
Shukla is a graduate of Rutgers University with
degrees in Electrical Engineering and English, and
New York Polytechnic University with a Master's
degree in Computer Science. Mr. Shukla attended
the Advanced Management Program at Harvard
Business School.
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Mr. H.N. Shrinivas
Sr. Vice President - Human Resources
Mr. Shrinivas has over 30 years of experience in the field of Human Resources. He holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from the National Institute of Social Sciences, Bangalore, and a Masters in Industrial Law from Bangalore University.
Mr. Shrinivas has also done an Advance Management Programme - Cornell University, HRD facilitator's programme on Change Management at National Training Laboratory, Washington D.C., U.S.A, and has trained in Kaizen, JIT, Lean Management at Kaizen Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Mr. Shrinivas has worked for 18 years with the Taj in Human Resources, Learning & Development and Business Excellence functions. After leaving the Taj in 2002, he headed the HR function in BPL and subsequently Tata Tea. His last assignment before joining us was with Hewlett Packard Global Delivery India Centre as Director, Human Resources.
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Mr. Sumit Guha
Vice President Development and Projects
Mr. Sumit Guha oversees the development function of the
Indian Hotels Company Limited and is responsible for planning and implementing the
growth strategy of the Company through the multiple routes of renovation, management contracts,
Greenfield projects and acquisition of new properties for the Company.
Before joining the Taj Group, Sumit worked in different functions in other Tata companies like Titan Industries,
Tata Tea and Tata NYK Transport Systems. Within these companies he has had exposure across various functions including projects,
sales and marketing and general administration.
Mr. Guha is a graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and holds a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is a member of the Tata Administrative Service.
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Mr. Sanker Parameswaran
Vice President - Legal & Company Secretary
Mr. Sanker Parameswaran has over 26 years of experience in the field of Legal & Secretarial. He is an ACS from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and holds a Masters Degree in Law from Mumbai University. He brings to the Taj group his rich and varied work experience from both the public and private sector, having served in both Indian and multi-national companies of repute including Colgate Palmolive (India) Ltd, Marico Industries Ltd, Reliance Infocomm Ltd, Godrej Agrovet Ltd, Tourism Finance Corporation of India Ltd, Indian Bank (a Public Sector bank) and INDBANK Merchant Banking Services Ltd. He was last associated with Amway India Enterprise Pvt. Ltd, a US Multinational company and a global leader in direct selling, as Director – Legal & Corporate Affairs.
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Mr. Veer Vijay Singh
Chief
Operating Officer – Upper Upscale Hotels
As the Chief Operating Officer of the Taj Group-Upper Upscale Hotels, Veer Vijay Singh is responsible for the Operations and Overall Performance of 36 hotels in 26 locations spread across seven (7) countries.
In a career span of 33 years with the Taj, he has had a wide experience in Food & Beverage Operations and has been a General Manager for over 17 years at Taj Hotels in Hyderabad, Calcutta & Sri Lanka. Prior to this assignment Veer Vijay was the Director Operations of TAJGVK hotels & Resorts Pvt. Ltd and General Manager of Taj Krishna. During his tenure he has been responsible for the growth & expansion of TAJGVK Hotels in Chandigarh, Chennai & Hyderabad.
He has graduated from IHMCT&N, New Delhi and he had the opportunity of further honing his skills by attending training programmes conducted by CORNELL/N.U.S- Singapore, INSEAD & Harvard. Veer Vijay has played a stellar role in promoting tourism in the State of Andhra Pradesh as he has been the President of Hotels & Restaurants Association of A.P for 6 terms and has been Director with A.P.Tourism Development Corporation, Institute of Hotel Management, National Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Convener for Tourism Promotion in CII - AP Chapter, Vice President - SIHRA & Executive Committee member of FHRAI.
His values, passion & loyalty towards his work and his Forte of building relationships, makes him who he is today.
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Ms. Jyoti Narang
Chief Operating Officer, Luxury Division
Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces
Jyoti Narang began her career with the Taj group in 1982 and has since handled
a variety of portfolios across the chain, from sales and marketing to operations.
She is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the Luxury Division of Taj Hotels
Resorts and Palaces and is in charge of the overall performance and expansion of the
division.
Jyoti started off as a sales executive with Taj Hotels in Delhi and was part of
the launch of Taj Palace, New Delhi. In 1996, she took charge of marketing for
the entire Taj Group of Hotels before moving into operations in 2003. Seeing an
opportunity in business tourism on the back of a growing economy, Jyoti developed
the concept of 'Urban Revival' for the new age Business Hotels for Taj. She served
as the Chief Operating Officer of Taj Business Hotels for India and abroad in 2003.
She then moved on to manage the operations of Taj Leisure Hotels in 2006. As the
Chief Operating officer of this division, she was instrumental in pioneering the
launch of Taj Safaris a unique concept which offers adventure enthusiasts a distinctive,
interpretive wildlife experience.
In 2008, Jyoti was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of The Gateway Hotels, the
new upscale brand of the Taj, and was actively involved in developing the concept and
launching the brand with an aim to be present in all economic and commercial hubs in India.
The brand is a first of its kind and was created to cater to the needs of the modern
contemporary traveller.
Jyoti obtained her B.A. in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi and went on to complete
her M.B.A in Finance from the Faculty of Management in Delhi. Over the years, she has attended
various marketing and management programmes from reputed institutes like the Wharton School of
Management and the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Jyoti has always worked at maintaining the company's strong identification with India, even as it
enhances itself as a global brand. Jyoti was named as the most powerful woman in the travel industry
worldwide by Travel Agent, a leading US national newsweekly magazine of the travel industry. She
was selected for her influence and contribution to the travel industry and is the only Indian to
be named in the prestigious list.
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Mr. P.K.Mohankumar
Chief
Operating Officer
Gateway Brand
Mr. P. K. Mohankumar has over 35 years of experience in hotel operations with the Taj Hotels, Resorts and Palaces. His career commenced with the flagship hotel – Taj Mahal Palace and Towers, Mumbai. To add to his extensive portfolio, ranging from green field launches, turn around assignments and international postings in USA and South Asia is his extensive training and exposure in luxury, upper upscale and mid market hotels in Europe and Far East. Has enriched his acumen in the management and leadership of the hospitality sphere holding key positions as Area Director and General Manager of luxury, business and leisure hotels which have won several accolades for excellence.
Mr.Mohankumar is an alumnus of Institute of Hotel Management, Mumbai and has participated in several senior leadership workshops conducted by Harvard Business School, Michigan University, USA, Cornell University, Singapore and IIM, Ahmedabad. In the last Twenty years as General Manager, he has won numerous accolades and his key accomplishments are chairing as a Vice Chancellor –Baillage de Bangalore, Chaine des Rotisseurs, Chairman for the Tourism Task force- Bangalore Chambers of Commerce & Industries, Excom Member of SHIRA, and Executive Member & Chairman of Tourism & Hospitality Sub committee – FICCI Karnataka State Council.
Currently, he is the Chief Operating Officer of the Gateway brand of the Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, and is responsible for the operations and performance of 19 properties in India.
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Mr. Rajiv Gujral
Chief Operating Officer & Sr. Vice President
Mergers, Acquisitions & Development
Rajiv Gujral is heading Merger, Acquisitions and Development for the Group.
In the 33 years with the Group Mr. Gujral has held various positions in the company from Sales and Marketing,
heading operations and development for Eastern Region and International Division.
Mr. Gujral has served on the Board of International Hotel and Restaurant Association (IH&RA),
currently a member of the Chain Council, President of Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Association of India (FHRAI),
apart from being the Chairman of West Bengal Tourism Development Corporation and Chairman Tourism Sub-Committee of the Associate Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ASOCHAM).
He has been responsible for creating Taj Asia Ltd., and for bringing in CC Africa to develop Wildlife Safaris in India with Taj Group.
Mr. Gujral is on the board of Taj International Hotels (Hongkong) and Oriental Hotels (Hongkong).
Mr. Gujral has been appointed the Chairman of the All India Board of Hotel Management and Catering Technology by the Union Ministry of Human Resources for a period of 3 years from 1st September 2006. He is also a member of the World Presidents Organisation (WPO).
Mr. Rajiv Gujral graduated in Business Management, majoring in Marketing from Banares University (BHU).
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Mr. Prabhat Pani
Chief Executive Officer
Roots Corporation Limited
As CEO of the wholly-owned subsidiary of The Indian Hotels Company Limited, Prabhat Pani manages the operations of Ginger Hotels and is responsible for their growth across India.
Before joining the Taj Group, Prabhat Pani served as Chief Operating Officer in Tata Telesevices Limited. He has extensive experience across wide geographies in India in handling portfolios of Sales, Marketing and Operations in large companies engaged in the FMCG and Telecom space.
He has been actively associated with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and has been a member of the Southern Regional Council the last three years, while co-chairing the Sub-Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility.
Prabhat Pani holds a degree in Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, and Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.
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