Profile

Suma Venkatesh

Executive Vice President - Real Estate & Development
The Indian Hotels Company Limited

Ms. Suma is an Engineer and an MBA in Marketing & Finance. She brings over 30 years of varied experience across engineering, financial services, real estate and hospitality sectors. She has worked across different functions ranging advisory services, financial structuring and lending for infrastructure projects and contract negotiations, planning and development of real estate and hotel projects. As Executive Vice President – Real Estate & Development, she heads IHCL’s Development, Projects & Technical Services and Asset Management functions. She leads the company’s growth and expansion initiatives and has delivered a fourfold growth of the company’s portfolio during the course of her remarkable journey of two decades with the company. She is a director on the board of PIEM Hotels and few others. She has won many awards and accolades during her career and has most recently been recognized for her outstanding contributions to Inclusion and Diversity in the tourism sector by IIPT (International Institute for Peace through Tourism) at the 7th "Celebrating Her Awards" at ITB, Berlin last week.