I Kamlesh Jugaldas Barot, was born on 26th September, 1961 and achieved my commerce bachelor's degree in 1981 from Mumbai University. Got my merit card from Dadar Catering College (I.H.M.C.T.A.N.) for being the topper in my Food Service Management class, of March 1984.

My career

My uncle and father, Shri Ishwarlal and Shri Jugaldas Barot respectively, came to Bombay from Palanpur in 1947 and started a small restaurant in the busy commercial area of Crawford Market, Bombay (400002). They earned reputation far and wide for ‘Ishwar Bhuvan’, our first south Indian restaurant, for five plus decades. My foundation was cast here. It was a landmark in South Bombay for its trendy fast food, till it reformed to 'Rajdhani' in 1989. 

I gained a brief retinue also at Fair Price Fabrics, a linen store owned by our family at Mangaldas Market. 

With characteristic foresight, after my IHM, our family acquired an operating  ‘Hotel Rajdhani’, our first 22-room business hotel in Baroda, around mid 1984. Under my stewardship, Hotel Rajdhani which started on 25th August, 1985 enjoyed 90% occupancy and it’s restaurant aptly named ‘Ishwar Bhuvan’, became famous all over Gujarat, for it’s Gujarati Thali.

My hobbies - gardening, pets, hospitality, electronics and music were enriched with life membership at the St. Zavier's college - Indian Music Group and my referencing at the British Council Division library, since 1972 as well at IHM Dadar. A Radio Officers Course at Radio Electric Institute in 1979, brought out the electronics whiz in me. Kaivalya Dham membership had taught me Yoga, since 11 Jan, 2003. A short course on Taxation in 1978 and introduction to DOS computing in 1987, my notes are referred till date. My membership at the Microcomputer Users’ Club way back in 1995 and their BBS kept my tech quest satiated, while it helped us to be among the first few hotels to provide free email to check-in guests then (at my Revival Hotel, Baroda).

During my tutelage in Baroda from 1984 to 1991, I became an active member of the Baroda Hotel Owners Association and carried out many activities that brought glory to both of us. It paved way to my FHRAI Presidentship in 2012.

Just as popular fashions dictate taste, so do food habits. And in 1989, the old Ishwar Bhuvan, Bombay, running into its 42nd year, was ceremoniously redecorated and renamed ‘Rajdhani restaurant’. After serving our daily "only Gujarati" menus, in the Thalis till 2000, Rajdhani's refurbishment and introduction of regional cuisines, like the Rajasthani, Maharashtrian and the Kathiawadi Thalis, we created a niche for our trendy and authentic food with our patrons, our connoisseurs of parallel Indian food, then. We Barots, had not only put Gujrati cuisine on the map, but in doing so had amply paid back a tribute, to the land of our birth.

What really turns a restaurant into a legend, is the quality of it’s location, food and service. I always believe that ambience is generated from the visibility of the owner's soul in the outlet, with his/her interactions.

Encouraged with every enviable success, we moved on to newer ventures. In 1991 we opened ‘Revival’ - Bombay’s most glamorous vegetarian restaurant & bar, in the prestigious sandy expanse of Chowpatty, Bombay. The restaurant featured 1920’s Art Deco architecture and interiors.

Revival's first floor housed the main restaurant with a hundred covers being spilled over at times into the ‘Rainbow Room’ above, when there were no parties hosted there. The terrace, an expanse of greenery christened as the ‘Roof-talk Terrace Garden’ and later as "39B by the Bay" overlooks the bay of Bombay with a fall back of the landscaped Malabar Hills. It houses 80 persons. There are 'Privilege Card' holders from this elite restaurant today too, while it boasted to be the only Eco-aware independent restaurant in this country.

I was awarded The Young Restaurant Entrepreneur award for Revival, Chowpatty from the Federation of Hotels & Restaurants Associations of (FHRAI), among all India applications. The award was presented on 30th September, 2004 by Mrs. Renuka Chowdhury, the then Hon. Union Minister for State for Tourism, in the presence of dignitaries from the hotel industry.

From 1995 to 2001, as monopoly caterers, we took over the catering of the Garware Club House at the Wankhede Stadium, Bombay for the food & beverage activity of the club at their banquet halls, restaurant and permit room, along with the 25 residential rooms, card room, billiard room and pool-side counters. All outlets of the club were revamped and brought up from the standard of an inefficient canteen to a full-fledged elite fine-dine restaurant. The cuisine spread from non-vegetarian Indian to Chinese to South Indian to Chaats to Tandoori to fast food snacks and breakfast items. Celebrity cricketers were catered to during the matches, in the BCA's back-of-house. 

In 1998, we launched our 3 star modern business Revival Hotel in Baroda, splendidly located, over-looking the well manicured Sayaji garden with 52 rooms and a one suite property, along with rooms for the disabled and non-smokers. This property won the prestigious “Environment Champion of the Year” award in 2000-2001 as runner up, and again in 2001-2002 as the winner, from FHRAI amongst one to three star hotels, all over India, within two years of operations. Revival Hotel was also accredited the ISO 9001:2000 by Jas-Anz of Australia and New Zealand, the first hotel property in Maharashtra including Bombay, Chattisgarh and Gujarat of the western region of India, to get the ISO 9001:2000 certification.  We also conceptualized a hotel school by the name of Revival Tulip Hotel Training School in this hotel.

In 1999 I started the Stir Academy of Bartending at Revival, in partnership with Mrs. Shatbhi Basu. An academy of it’s kind in India, which taught students the finer details of flair bartending, with audio-visual and computer aids. Is still a sought after school run now by Mrs. Basu, not only for bar personnel but also amateurs and career appreciation enthusiasts. Stir students today are working in the top most restaurants, clubs and hotels, all over the world.

In May 2000, we franchised for the first time, to a silver thali restaurant “Aamantran” which served five different cuisines of India namely, Rajasthani, Kathiawadi, Maharashtrian, Punjabi and South Indian. Housing a 120 capacity banquet hall too, this restaurant is located in the plush environs of Alkapuri, in Baroda.

In March 2001 another first time, we franchised outside India. “Revival, The Indian Restaurant”, a 80 cover restaurant with an attached bar, at Ly Thai To Street, near the famous Hon Klem Lake in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam that was launched with the “Mangharams”.

We also were the F&B overseers in 2006 to a mammoth 450-bed top-of-the-line Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital, at Chinchwad near Pune. Fortis Hospital in Vashi followed, us catering for their patients, doctors, staff as well as the caregivers.

The Revival Tulip Hotel Training School started on 7th January 2002 steered by industry stalwart, Dr. Ajit B. Kerkar, offering certificate courses in Front Office, Food & Beverage, Housekeeping and Food Production at our Revival Hotel, Baroda, Revival hotel's management contract was signed with Dr. Kerkar. Ours was one of the few Schools, which showed students an actual working hotel, rather than creating an illusionary simulated situation, difficult for students to grab. Ultimately the students graduating from the school got absorbed in the six plus properties of the Barots, as well as those of the Tulip Hotels.

Revival was entrusted the job of overseeing a symposium for the cloth merchants of S&Y – Kohinoor Mills in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from the 30th January 2002 to 3rd February 2002. We curated the event and I executed the setup there, with Malay chefs and produced Indian food for 250 businessmen, under stringent alien conditions.

In September 2003 we put together a new hospitality venture down under as “India Quay”, an Indian food non-vegetarian restaurant at Circular Quay, over-looking the "Sydney harbour" in Sydney, Australia with Mr. Paresh Pandya.

From July 2006 we took to exclusive food & beverage administrators of WIAA (Malabar Hill Club) serving a blend of food from all their outlets to the elite of its members. The Eskay club at Borivali also came on a similar platform. 

I and my wife Vandana successfully conducted the food preparation, service and presentation arrangements for a marriage function of 2500 people for the President of Gem & Jeweler's Association of Thailand - Mr. Surendra Patel’s daughter at Bangkok, in December, 2007.

After restaurant franchises, we first time franchised our accommodation operations to a hotel in Lonavala, which was re-furbished with the new boutique look in June 2003, as Swiss Resorts. An annexure addition with the operational take-over of this property in 2006-2007, raised the inventory of this property from 22 rooms to 55 rooms. Our accommodation arm, with the addition of Lonavala franchise, saw our group's room inventory go up from these 55 rooms, plus 53 of Baroda, 50 rooms in Mahabaleshwar, 100 in Silla Goa, Calungute, 50 in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, 150 rooms in Chinchwad, Pune and 50 in Kerla taking the total to 500 rooms, re-christened later as Citrus Hotels in 2011.

On 27th June, 2004, at the Inrobit Mall, Malad, we franchised our second Rajdhani in Bombay to my classmate, the Maheshwari's family. Located in this plush mall, amidst the food chains of the world, from day-one this restaurant has serpentine queues outside the entrance door, all day long. This restaurant was replicated at Oberoi Malls, Goregaon for the Maheshwari franchise. This partnership saw in April 2006, a new sub-brand - Rajdhani Snacklets initiated at the Infinity Mall and Fame adlabs of Andheri, Malad and Kandivali. A first Thali outlet in the UAE with the Maheshwaris and Sallas, brought an hitherto unknown Barot signature service style to the discourteous Dubai food-scape. We did banquets too with them at a Malad in column-free above school setup. From 2011 they moved on.

From April 2005, our bustling brands hither to expanding ourselves, got the owners of our franchised Swiss Resorts, Mr Omprakash Goenka interested and we both setup Encore Hotels. Having interacted with each other first at the Garware Club House, we got committed to a roadmap of creating an icon in hospitality with our Encore brand.

Nirmal Lifestyles Mall, at Mulund saw Rajdhani, as well as Fine Dine co-exist in the same mall in October 2005, with a first-time concept of interactive cooking, by restaurant guests on a visible kitchen. With a state-of-the-art flair lounge bar with the help of Mrs. Shatbi Basu and our modern kitchen, this restaurant had a unique 360° ambience, for our suburban patrons.

Institutional catering wing at Encore was initiated by us at the Billabong School (Kangaroo Kids) Thane, Fazlani’s, RBK and Hill Spring International School. Office catering was done at Anand Rathis. A central kitchen - commissary was setup at Sewri in July 2008.

These accomplishments post 2005, were not achievable without the unstinted efforts of the state-of-the-art corporate office setup by us at Lower Parel, with the two thousand seven hundred plus team members hand-picked by us, for all Encore outlets or the hundred and twenty plus corporate team members.

Rajdhanis with Encore, was setup and path-breaking operated by Barots, from Indore to Pune, Mumbai Central Railway Station to Spenser’s in Inorbit, Bangalore. We also operated in Nagpur, at Connought Place, New Delhi and the MGF mall Gurgaon, franchised to the Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri, Opera House; at Metro Adlabs Cinema, and at Chembur-Ghatkopar, at Rajkot, Borivali, Hyderabad, V3S Mall New Delhi, Great India Place Noida, Forum Mall, U.B. City & M.G. Road, Banglore, Thane, Jaipur and Ahmedabad and Calcutta, Shirdi, Chandigarh, Nariman point, Panjim Goa, Crystal Plaza Lokhandwala, Nasik, Kshitij, Eskay & More malls in Vadodara. Highway catering with HPCL kicked off at Kamshet, Pune, in all numbering more than 65 outlets and we kept growing from 2005 till 2011 in the hospitality space.

The brands visible now in our companies Vie Hospitality Private Limited and Barot Hotels Private Limited, are IKXIA (February, 2010) and Revival (1991). ‘Revival Indian Thali’(March 2011), post the dis-association with Encore in 2011. 

Vie Hospitality fine-tuned setup and operations of the Emerald Club, Chembur from February, 2012. Back-of-house design to systems of entire operations and personnel placement and training to fast-tracking the indoor and open-air banqueting, aggregated to 3000 guests in the property with member facilities and restaurants, bar as well as full-fledged marriage functions. Today the Emerald Club is a sought after venue in the Central-Eastern suburbs of Mumbai.

Vie managed the entire hotel operations of “Hotel Dwarka” from February 2005 in Nasik. 

We perfected the banquet venues for the Lakhani Caterers at Vidya Vihar and Malad banquets,(June, 2015). 

F&B of “Jeevantara Resorts”, Udaipur was managed for Dilip Kothari.

While the old Surya Resort was being demolished in 2012, we setup the "White Spice" restaurant for “SGs”. SGs was being built along side into a modern, four star, 75 room top-in-line hotel, with left-handed guest rooms, a room for differently-abled guests, is the tallest hotel in Lonavala, centrally located on main road between Pune & Mumbai. With our 24 hour multicuisine vegetarian dining Whitespice, with a new menu was relocated inside SGs along side the Restobar and Juice Bar, serving vegan & Jain options, with food allergies addressed.  A private dining room and "Splash" lounge bar, was commissioned with an outdoor restaurant, serving wood-fired pizzas among other Continental foods at the Basil Leaf Cafe, having a Patisserie attached, all of this as advised and built by us. Organic ‘Farm to Fork’ menu is also served at alfresco Basil Leaf. 

Smoke-free guestrooms with interactive smart Android TVs, are made for guests to continue binging from where they'd left off, with in-room tea / coffee makers, with mood lights, controllable by the guest. High speed Wi-Fi is fully enabled in the entire property, and has a modern health Spa and free parking for resident guest vehicles, along with a well furnished gymnasium and activity cum Science room and a Terrace Top Glass Cube, for meditation with the Stargazer’s Telescope. The Terrace Top with the infinity pool has a Poolside Cafe and the Skydiner, for premium dining and the barbeque outlet, called Starfire. The property has an area earmarked for pets and is completely pet friendly. Sustainable development initiatives were emphasized by us, from project stage till SG's launch in August 2019, having Eco-program controlled rooms, hence the hotel called - the SG's GreenOtel. 

Banquets in the basements are pillarless halls and hone state-of-the-art plug-ins at the Rosemary Conference; Cilantro Conference; Lavender Conference; First Millennial conference, replete with plush interiors. Open air lawns for 3000 people for destination weddings, made us design most interconnecting rooms, with room balconies facing the lawn and the main road for this property. 

Fire compliant SG's gives guests the choice to, pre check-in with their preferred music, aroma  fragrance and mood lighting. Lady traveler rooms with 24 hour secured hotel, auto switching to electricity backup, safes for guest valuables and guest floor noise regulation with USB charging, ability to check Guest Folio on Room Television, a suite with dedicated butler service, India’s first Google voice-controlled hotel with mobile friendly check-in are few of the industry firsts, as devised by us for SGs.

Lords Shirdi and Nathdwara were franchised Revival f&b outlets since 2015, while Barots operated the hundred room Silvasa property.

Revival Indian Thali's franchise runs since August 2017 among the other fourteen food outlets, at the Shaw family's Waterfront Shaw, an all suite 43 one &  two bedroom studio apartment hotel, on the waterfront at Dasve Promenade, nestled between Lake Warasgaon and the picturesque mountain ranges of Lavasa, which is the only planned city after Chandigarh. WFS reins first on most meta searches since it was launched.

Shubhdev-Revival resort, at Ghogha port, Bhavnagar was setup and launched on 4th September, 2019 with 44 rooms and 3 cottages in a scenic landscape, with Revival's menu for the 114 covers & 60 covers on the level above, with the Aangan lawns banquets for 800 persons, and a conference hall for 50. 

Travel agent connections from across the Ro-Ro ferry terminal of Surat and Dahej to Ghogha were established by us for this resort. Rooms are with views of the poolside, adjacent water park, lakeside and cruise terminal. With pet and environment friendly features, the resort is also designed for differently-abled guests and ample car parking. Flat TVs with tea-coffee makers, in-room safes, free use of swimming pool, 24 hour room service and security, high speed WiFi access, laundry and premium toiletries are some of the accommodation features. Local periphery tourism packages are made by us for lakes, parks, wildlife sanctuary, religious and memorials, colonial palace, mountain climbing, local village and salt factory, Alang ship-breaking and Dholera smart-city visits, with Bhavnagar royalty and jewelry shopping trips.

Barots were engaged in 2020 by the Ajmera brothers for sprucing up their Adamo properties Bellus Goa, Resort & Village Matheran, Sanmukh & Vaikunth Nathdwara & the Empresa at Lokhandwala aggregating to over 300 rooms, with multiple restaurants, banquets and bars.

Ibadat resort & Krushi Paryatan Kendra is an agro-tourism project and was launched in February 2021 at Wada-Palghar near Mumbai. It features glass houses facing the lake, same duplexes facing the Vaitarna river, an international standard tent room, the Bamboo house, the Red stone house and an air-conditioned fully contained dormitory for 12 guests. Besides the 75ft x 35ft swimming pool with jacuzzi having a separate area for kids and rain dancing, with indoor games room and table-tennis, pool table, carrom, Ludo - snakes and ladders, the property has been designed with an open air restaurant for hundred plus diners. 

Attractions as advised by us feature, water fountains with led light-effects, fish feeding, gazebo inside own lake, organic farm tour, bonfire evenings, open spacious landscapes with walking, jogging tracks, 2000 people capacity banquet destination wedding open ground, bicycles for all age group, golf cart, horse riding, birds feeding, check-in on horse buggy, paddle boating in the lake, full manicured gardens, Warli painters showcasing and selling their merchandise, local tribal cultural performance packages, local tribal live cooking packages, Shinrin Yoku - the Japanese forest bathing therapies, village tour packages with Hi-tea, mushroom factory visit, Jawhar Palace and peripheral tourist attractions guided tours packages, Farm to Fork live cooking, tree trails at the mango garden, chikoo garden, guava garden, coconut and Awala garden trips and weekend Farmer’s market with Chef demo table.

Multi awarded, pet friendly, Veg for Life patented Revival Indian Thali and the Ranch Club by Revival Mumbai, Thane started its vegan operations with our Bhoji mascot from 25th October, 2021 and 10th December, 2021 respectively, in our franchised format. Features like 44 items per day from pan Indian cuisines served on theraputic, merchandisable, local crafted Kansa Thalis, with optional Ayurvedic, organic, sugar free, gluten free, lactose free, nuts free, cooked in trans fat free oil, with emphasis on hygiene and sanitation of FSSAI, batch tested food, promoting kitchen visits, through the yearly calendar of events, equal opportunity employer, available in meal box, has ample parking. 

Unique Mexican themed Ranch Club by Revival Mumbai, features an interactive bar with molecular gastronomy arrayed menu, served at times with live singers in an al-fresco setup. 

Samarambh banquets both inhouse and in the lawns form the MICE in Thane.

The above Thane franchise that started in November 2021 as Ranch Club Lounge was followed by Revival 2.0. 

Again we started our Thali with our franchisee, Mr. Rajesh Barot at the prestigious Garvi Gujarat on Akbar road, New Delhi on 9th October, 2022.

19th April 2023 we manage the Brik Cafe to our schoolmate Mr. Lalit Singhvi, at Chemco House, near Excelsior Cinema serving Italian, Mexican, Oriental, Middle Eastern, American and Continental multi-cuisine designer food with cocktail bar. 

My son, Shail was consulting Rishab World's Mr. Ramesh Jain, for their Chaos Control Cafe and a dozen odd multi-cuisine vegetarian outlets. After his migration to Toronto, we manage this consultancy now.

Revival at Fern, Banglore, shall be starting soon with our food and beverage management for their restaurants, bars and banquets.

My awards

After my catering college - first rank award, I got “The Young Restaurant Entrepreneur” award by the Federation of Hotels & Restaurants Associations of India and the Achiever's award by IHM (Mumbai) in their seventieth year. My Revival Hotel Baroda, was awarded "the Environment Champion" for the year 1999-2000 and again in 2000-2001, was also accredited the ISO 9001:2000. Our Rajdhani won many awards, the Times Food Award four times, Burp Award, India Today Award, FHRAI, Golden Spoon Award, Best Franchisor Award. Our Revival got the Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence from 2012 till 2019 and the Mouthshut 2013 award for the best Indian food category, Zomato Value for Money award, Limca Books of Record 2013 and from 2020 the certificate of excellence by Sluury, RestaurantGuru Recomended award in 2020 to 2022, is always rated above 4 plus out of 5 on Tripadvisor, Zomato, Google, Magicpin, Dineout, Easydiner, Justdial, Venuelook, Burrp, Mouthshut, Uber Eats, Direktry, Lonelyplanet, Trip Expert NY 2021......

My network

I had been an elected Managing Committee member of the Hotel & Restaurant Association (Western India) since 1995 till being its President for 2010 through 2012, representing the five states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Chattisgarh and M.P.

I was elected as the President of the Federation of Hotels & Restaurants Associations of India, (FHRAI) for the year 2011-2012. 

Before taking over as President of HRAWI and Vice-President of FHRAI in September 2010, I held various posts as the Chairman of Office Matters sub-committee, Human Resource Development, Infotech and Gujarat State Co-ordination sub-committee, when I had brought about an organization of the then modern office Secretariat for the Association. I'd co-chaired the committee on Seminars, H.R.D. and was a member on a many sub-committees like the Publicity & Public Relations, Government Co-ordination matters, Constitution of HRAWI, Classification, membership, FHRAI-IHM, Budget, Tourism Policy, SFIS, EPCG, membership, acted as the Election Officer for HRAWI, headed the Accommodation sub-committee of the National Convention 2000 in Bombay and later on every national to international conventions of HRAWI & FHRAI. I was a Core Group member for interaction with the Catering Colleges and the Hotel Industry. 

I persistently made the Association a torchbearer amongst other such bodies, with my entire team at HRAWI & FHRAI. Through the H.R.D., committee in association with CII, I initiated a new human resource drive in 2008, by starting training courses at the member catering colleges of Bombay, for the hotel industry with Xth and XIIth grade dropouts, taking candidates also from the Directorate of Employment, Government of Maharashtra. These 140 students were placed directly, after two months of training into HRAWI member hotels and restaurants. I sold this idea to the NCHMCT & DOT, which became a Rs. 1500 crore Hunar-se-Rozgar project rolled out by the Department of Tourism, Government of India. I had started this initiative and impressed upon the MOT and National Council in Delhi, which escalated to the Hunnar-Se-Rozgar scheme by the DOT with the same logistics, getting an allocation by Skill Development Council & HUPA for Rs. Ten Thousand Crores.

I was nominated on the Information Technology Committee of the FICCI thorough the association. I have been co-chairman of the Tourism committee at Indian Merchants Chamber and an active executive committee member then on. I am an active trustee of the HRAWI Scholarship Trust.

I have been writing articles online as well as in print, for the newsletters of the HRAWI and its parent FHRAI, so also for the Express Hotelier & Caterer – India’s Hospitality Business Weekly by Indian Express and later for various industry and mainstream media, both print as well as digital interviews. 

I have been a visiting faculty for many catering colleges in the region. I've been a speaker for symposiums, seminars, and conventions relating to the hotel and restaurant industry. I have judged many competitions held by various catering colleges and tourism institutes. I was instrumental in drafting the Tourism Policy for Gujarat- 2000-2005. 

I had first chaired HRAWI's regional Convention in Daman in 1999 and had an active participation in the National Convention 1996 in Pune and headed the Accommodation sub-committee of the National Convention 2000 in Bombay, followed by various posts in conventions at Dubai, China, Indore, Srilanka, Nashik. I had been on the committee for “Joint Tourism Promotion Council” for the States of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, MP, Chattisgarh, Daman & Diu. I was instrumental in producing the Knowledge Galleries CDs for the Hotel Industry in 2002. 

I'm on the University of Mumbai adhoc committee and was on the State level Course Committee for Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Maharashtra State, Board of Technical Education, Mumbai.

I share the distinction of being one of the youngest ever President in FHRAI's history, launched the HFTI with a profithad , was  the founder of FAITH & WITO. I signed MOUs with FHRAI & IH&RA-UNWTO-HFTP-AAOA-AHLA-EI-WTTC, launched FHRAI's 5 year plan, automated meeting processes, stopped cut flower felicitations, started video conference meetings in 2012, initiated on HRAWI & FHRAI magazines' President’s notes, conducted IHM lectures and ITM, started the Legal & R&D funds, committed to response to members within 24 hours, yearly meeting calendar, updated the star category HRACC norms, launched my college Principal's Ms. Thangam Philip Book, formulated PCI-DSS process for the industry, appointed Dr. Pasupathy to adopt the FSSAI Act for our members with 14 seminars across the country and recently promoted the audits for Covid certification for members, distributed three EHLA Training DVDs worth $1000 each free to our members, generated two profitable conventions at Lavasa & Goa, helped in executing three international conventions, in Dubai, Beijing and Sri Lanka, formed an unprecedented PR exercise for FHRAI & HRAWI, conducted the first Cornell symposium, represented service charge migration to GST with late President Mr. Pranab Mukherjee - then FM with Assocham, was on the MTDC Core Committee, interacted with MCHI President, NTAC, created the white paper on SWC with Accenture, made many presentations on industry issues to ministers, commissioners, secretaries, been on the Heritage Conservation committee, on the Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology Dadar's Board of Governors from 2009 to 2019, conducted Mumbai Festival Oct 2005, on the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations as HRD Chairman, launched WorldRes reservation online inventory program for members in Jan, 1999. In 2007, I was appointed as one of the Trustees of the Institute of the Federation of Hotels & Restaurants Associations of India. I was on the Ad-hoc Board of studies in Hotel & Tourism Management Studies, University of Mumbai, a member of the Board of Governors for IHCTAN (Dadar Catering College) and a member of the State level Course Committee for Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Maharashtra State, Board of Technical Education, Mumbai. 

On my domain I'll feature my personal outlook as:

Health; Hobby; Travel; Skills; Roots under these:

Food Plants Phobia Environment Relationships

(hydroponics)

Metrics Music Sustainability Friendships

(digitization)

Yoga Movies Language Chandisar

Aquarium Society

&  my professional outlook as:

Separation; Financial; KB Brand; Consortium; Industry; Media; Education; Expertise Consultation & FHRAI

Security Web ESG

Revenue Accolades Management

Accomplishments Operations

Network