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Stay Up to Date with Movements in Wine and Hospitality
June 2016
Vijay Dutt has been promoted as General Manager of The Ashok, New Delhi. His position of Resident Manager has been filled by Anmol Zutshi.
May 2016
Neha Chhabra has moved from the Trident Mumbai, Bandra Kurla Complex to the JW Marriott Mumbai Sahar where she will be the Director of Operations.
Vikas Sharma has moved from the Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Bengaluru. He takes over as the Director of Operations. Nilesh Singh has moved to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Bali as Executive Assistant Manager - Food and Beverage.
Kuldeep Bhartee has moved from ITC Grand Central, Mumbai to take up the position of General Manager at ITC Maratha, Mumbai.
Andreas Streiber has been appointed the General Manager of Shangri-La Hotel, Bengaluru. He moves to India from China, where he opened Shangri-La Hotel, Qinhuangdao.
April 2016
With The Oberoi New Delhi closing its doors for a complete makeover, Tarun Seth has taken over as Executive Assistant Manager (F&B) of Trident Mumbai, Bandra Kurla Complex.
Vishrut Gupta will be the Director Food & Beverage at the Pullman & Novotel New Delhi Aerocity and Ajay Anand will take over as the Director Culinary.
March 2016
Jasjit Assi returns to Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai – he has been appointed Hotel Manager.
The newly launched Hyatt Regency Chandigarh will have Puneet Baijal as General Manager.
Harish Acharekar moves to Brindco, India’s leading importer of wines and spirits, as Regional Marketing Manager for Maharashtra, Goa & Pune
February 2016
Dhananjay Kumar will be the General Manager of The Suryaa New Delhi. He is presently the General Manager at Radisson Blu Marina Hotel Connaught Place.
January 2016
Ankush Mahajan was transferred as General Manager of The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur. Abhishek Panshikar was appointed General Manager of The Oberoi Amarvilas, Agra.
Mehrnavaz Avari has been promoted as the Resident Manager of The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai. Ritesh Choudhary replaces her as Director Food & Beverage of The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai. He has moved from the JW Marriott Mumbai.
Aashima Sharma has been appointed General Manager of the Park Hyatt Chennai. She moves from Sofitel Mumbai BKC, where she was Hotel Manager.
Ritesh Sharma has took over as the General Manager of Taj Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad.
Sanjay Patti, the Director of Food & Beverage at Hyatt Regency Gurgaon, has ben promoted as General Manager (pre-opening) of Hyatt Place Goa.
December 2015
Sunil Gupta has taken over as the Chief Executive Officer of WelcomHeritage Hotels.
Abhishek Sahai has moved on from the Leela Palace Udaipur and taken the position of General Manager at Courtyard by Marriott, Agra.
November 2015
Tejinder Singh, who has for long been responsible for beverages at the ITC Group, has been promoted to General Manager of ITC Rajputana, Jaipur. Prashant Gaurav Gupta, currently F&B Manager, will be the new Resident Manager of the ITC Maurya New Delhi. No replacement has been announced for Prashant yet.
As Chef Manish Mehrotra prepares to take the much awarded Indian Accent to the Big Apple, Akshay Tripathi has been hired as General Manager - Operations & Development.
Rishi Kumar takes Akshay's position as the Food & Beverage Manager at the Taj Lands End, Mumbai.
October 2015
Ranvir Bhandari was appointed Chief Operating Officer of ITC Hotels and Dipak Haksar was appointed Chief Executive Officer.
Deepak Cedric Menezes was appointed the new General Manager of ITC Grand Bharat, Gurgaon.
Akanksha Lamba took over as the Food & Beverage Manager at The Oberoi Gurgaon from Rathijit Dutta, who moved to Oberoi Dubai.
Rajesh Namby was promoted as General Manager at The Leela Palace Udaipur.
The Shangri-la Bengaluru opened its doors with Jens Corder as the General Manager and Patrick Lefranc as the Executive Assistant Manager - Food and Beverage.
September 2015
Parmeet Singh Nayar was appointed General Manager of the Shangrila-la's Eros Hotel, New Delhi.
Vikram Reddy took over as the General Manager of the Four Seasons, Mumbai from Andrew Harrison, who has moved as General Manager of the Four Seasons Resort Langkawi.
The Palladium Mumbai was re-christened St. Regis Mumbai. Sachin Mylavarapu will be the EAM (F&B).
Pedhapally Kishan who was Head of Sales for Charosa Vineyards in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh has moved into the world of beer.
August 2015
Judith Sciarone joined The Claridges New Delhi as Sommelier.
Rakesh Awaghade took charge as the Resident Sommelier at The Oberoi Gurgaon and Trident Gurgaon.
Sagar Nath, who was the Sommelier at Sofitel Mumbai BKC joined Brindco Limited as Marketing Manager.
July 2015
Ashish Kumar Rai took over as the General Manager of the Westin Mumbai Garden City.
Sameer Sud replaces him as the General Manager of The Leela Mumbai.
In anticipation of the opening of St. Regis, Anuraag Bhatnagar took over as the General Manager of The Palladium Mumbai
June 2015
Change at the Oberoi Hotels. Mohit Nirula is now Senior Vice President, Office of the Chief Executive Officer at The Oberoi Group. Huvida Marshall, who was Vice President and General Manager of The Oberoi Bangalore, will be the new Dean of the Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development. Anshul Kaul takes over as the new General Manager, The Oberoi Bangalore. Sumit Joshi also moves from The Oberoi Bangalore to Oberoi Wildflower Hall, Simla as General Manager. Abhishek Sharma takes over as General Manager of Oberoi Raj Vilas, Jaipur.
May 2015
As ITC Hotels checked out of the Park Sheraton Hotel & Towers, N Krishnan moved to ITC Kakatiya in Hyderabad as General Manager. The Chennai property will be managed by IHG and will henceforth be known as Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park.
Staying in the city of Chennai, Madhav Sehgal took over as General Manager of the Hyatt Regency Chennai. He moved in from Hyatt Bangalore.
The Taj Group launched their newest offering the capital - Vivanta by Taj, Dwarka.
Anil Malhotra will be the General Manager, and Samuel Massey, the Food & Beverage Manager
April 2015
The management structure of the Taj has seen considerable changes. Rohit Khosla has been appointed Senior Vice President (North and East) of Taj Hotels. Prabhat Verma will be the Senior Vice President (South). Farhat Jamal will take over as Senior Vice President (West). He is presently Area General Manager, Shangri-la Hotels.
The new Area Directors reporting the regional heads are Karambir Kang (United States), Sarabjeet Singh (Sri Lanka and Maldives), Taljinder Singh (Mumbai), Gaurav Pokhariyal (Delhi), Saleem Yousuff (Chennai) and Mohan Chandra (Hyderabad).
Parveen Chander takes over as the General Manager of Taj Landsend, Mumbai.
Arindam Chakraborty is the new General Manager of Radisson Blu Ludhiana. He was at the Eros Hotel Nehru Place, New Delhi
March 2015
Mr. Rajeev Menon has been appointed the Chief Operations Officer (COO) for Marriott International in South-East Asia & Pacific. He was Area Vice-President - South Asia of Marriott International.
February 2015
Mr. Suveer Sodhi took over as Director (Food & Beverage) at Shangri-la's Eros Hotel, New Delhi. He was previously at Dusit Devarana New Delhi.
Mr. Jameson Solomon has joined The Leela Palace Bangalore as Executive Assistant Manager (F&B). He succeeds Mr. Jimmy Kuruvilla.
Mr. Karanbir Singh Gulati takes his wine knowledge to Chennai where he joins the Sheraton Park Hotel & Towers as Assistant F&B Manager. He was previously Banquet Manager, ITC Welcomhotel Dwarka, New Delhi.
January 2015
Mr. Ranvir Bhandari took over as Vice President (Operations) at ITC Hotels Corporate Office in Gurgaon. He was previously Vice President (South) and General Manager, ITC Grand Chola, Chennai.
Mr. Anil Chadha, previously General Manager, ITC Maurya, New Delhi has taken over as Vice President (South) and General Manager, ITC Grand Chola, Chennai. Mr. Zubin Songadwala, previously General Manager, ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru has been appointed General Manager, ITC Maurya, New Delhi. Mr. Virender Razdan, previously General Manager, ITC Windsor, Bengaluru has been appointed General Manager, ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru.
Dr. Jyotsna Suri was elected President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in her capacity as the Chairman & Managing Director of Bharat Hotels (Lalit Suri Hospitality). She took over from Mr. Sidharth Birla, Chairman of Xpro India and Digjam.
Mr. Raghu Menon took over as General Manager of the Ritz-Carlton, Bangalore. He moved in from the Ritz-Carlton, Shenzhen (China), where he was General Manager.
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