User:Sunilkalia

Sunil Jagdish Kalia is a thorough-bred Hospitality & Hotel Professional, having over three decades of experience. After schooling from the well-known Public School SANAWAR, he graduated from the Panjab University, Chandigarh, majoring in Economics in 1971. To pursue a career in the Hotel Industry, he undertook a full time, three-year course in Hotel & Catering Administration from Blackpool & The Fylde College,Blackpool, UK (Lancaster University) HND-(Hotel Administration .He was member of MHCIMA UK ) He was one of the first few among Indians who was educated in U.K. in the Hotel Industry.

•	After a brief stint in few Hotels in the UK, including the world famous Gleneagles Hotel, Auchtararder, Scotland, U.K., and Park Plaza Hotel, London, U.K,. he returned to India in early 1975 and joined Hotel Corporation of India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India in the middle Management cadre in their newly constructed Centaur Hotel in Mumbai. He continued his impeccable career uninterruptedly for two and half decades, having served this corporation in various capacities.

•	Right throughout his unblemished career he kept pace with several challenging assignments. He was the youngest officer given independent charge of establishing a Resort in The Andaman Islands in 1978. He pioneered the concept of Hospitality and Hotels into these Islands where hitherto no organized venture had ever been undertaken of this magnitude. Today, in this part of India, the industry has grown in stature and is a major Tourist Destination. The seeds for its success had been sown by him.

•	In addition, Sunil Kalia played a key role in setting up Company’s New Projects in Delhi Srinagar, Rajgir and Mumbai. He rose to become the company’s First In-House Vice President and Headed the Operations department successfully. On privatization of the company he continued his task unabated with Sahara India Parivar, a multi crore, a multi dimensional organization where he contributed substantially in its restructuring, in the capacity of Vice President Operations.


 * He is a respected Senior in the Hospitality Sector and is currently associated as  Director at Union Global.He  continues to incessantly contribute  in the Hospitality industry from the  Mumbai region.


 * He showed his versatility when he was associated in the development and operations of a Super Speciality Hospital in handling the Administrative affairs of BLK Hospital,New Delhi from 2008-2010

•	Earlier he was associated with Sunil Mantri Realty Ltd, Mumbai, venturing their foray into the Hotel segment by heading their newly created Hotels division as Vice President Hospitality.

AFFILIATIONS:

•	Sunil Kalia was also Member of the Hotel Catering & Institutional Management Association (MHCIMA), UK, a highly respected International Body of Hotel Professionals.

•	He was also accredited as On-the-job-Trainer from Hotel Catering Industrial Training Board (HCITB), London, U.K.

•	He was affiliated to Hotel School of Hospitality Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.

SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS & SMART ACHIEVEMENTS:

•	Sunil Kalia, attended General Managers’ Programme organized by CORNELL UNIVERSITY, in ITHACA, USA in 1995. Earlier in 1977 he had undertaken a special course conducted by Cornell University in F&B Management.

•	During his tenure with Hotel Corporation of India, he attended several Trade related conventions held in various cities within India, Sri Lanka and Nepal, organized by TAAI, FHRAI, the leading bodies of the Hotel and Airline Business in India. He also participated in International conventions organized by PATA in Thailand and Hong Kong.

•	Sunil J. Kalia was also on the Board of Directors of Indo- Japanese joint venture viz Indo Hokke Hotels Ltd and India Tea & Restaurants Co Ltd. Both were subsidiary companies of Hotel Corporation of India Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India.

•	He was deputed in the planning of The Festival of India in USSR in 1987, an event of major magnitude, organized by the Government of India.

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

Sunil J. Kalia is a widely respected Hotel Professional in India. In the year 2000, he was included in the list of Top Twelve Hoteliers of India and received the prestigious Safari Award for his contributions in the field of Hotel & Tourism Development in India.

MANAGEMENT SKILLS & USP:

Having a sound and positive approach towards all issues related to Hotel Planning and, Designing, he is constantly aspiring to learn and implement new methodologies; newer techniques of Management. Introducing Management Skills and bringing about refreshing innovative changes are his forte. His other strengths include.

•	Leads from the front-helps bring about effective coordination, strategy and planning with back-up plan. Possessed with a balanced mind and mature ideologies, He excels in judgment and his Leadership qualities are amazing, his anticipation of foreseeing what’s good and what’s not good for the Management, add to his armory. A Team Man to the core, highly dependable with a high sense of responsibility

•	Professionalism-ability to effectively plan and implement a vision. Competence to get things done.

•	From projects to making profits-starting a hotel, restaurant, lounge or café from scratch, hiring goal oriented staff with a pleasing personality to promotion, sales, marketing and steering operations to break-even in record time and make profit and create goodwill.

•	He is very quality conscious. Coupled with this, he is very strong in tackling Manpower & Man Management based issues. He is highly committed and goal oriented individual. Approachable-effectively playing mentor to junior colleagues and motivating them to strive and achieve targets

•	Public relations-effective networking. Maintain good relations with top bureaucrats, police, secretariat, Municipal Corporation, income tax, judiciary, passport office, defence services, besides corporate, banks and film industry. He is remarkably good in PR and is very sociable and an amicable person

•	He is always in the forefront where integrity Sincerity and Dedication are concerned.

INTERESTS

A Family Man with polished up-bringing. Very courteous and well mannered. Very humane are his other traits.

He is a very keen sportsman having excelled in Cricket, Tennis & Badminton. His hobbies include stamp and coin collection. Extensively travelled – Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Uzbekistan, Middle-East, Egypt, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates (Dubai) Russia, Georgia, South Africa, Europe, U.K., U.S.A., m

OBJECTIVE

To deliver Hospitality & Catering Services of Global standards.