Gaurrav Shiva

Chief Executive Officer at Academy Of Pastry & Culinary Arts

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Gaurrav is an award winning hospitality professional with more than 27 years of experience, A passionate hotelier, With a keen eye for detail coupled with being an astute business manager. His strategic thinking capabilities allows him to focus on shaping the best sustainable and feasible strategy to engage all the promoters involved within service delivery; His solid capabilities in managing diversity and different hospitality operational protocol with due experiences across America, Europe & Asia allows him to develop and nurture his passion for operational processes integrated with social responsibility value and high integration with local sources and factors. Gaurrav possesses strong analytical skills including trend analysis and the ability to develop innovative tactics to resolve situations. Gaurrav leads with a philosophy based on the importance of relationships and developing teams to become self-acting managers. Gaurrav has a remarkable ability to ensure proper selection, training and mentoring of team members. He is Hands-on with an amazing floor presence, accomplished career track, known throughout the industry for delivering and sustaining revenue and profit gain. Exceptional communicator with a consultative sales style, strong negotiations skills, exceptional solving problem abilities and enjoy building morale and spirit with a “Can Do” attitude. Aggressively creative, develop focus while being responsible of all aspects of the operations. Having Pre -Opened, operated, renovated and re-opened multiple luxury and upper upscale hotels and fine dining restaurants where he developed and implemented processes ensuring standards and high commitment to quality. “Passion for profession” is a core value he lives up to every single day. Specialties: - Pre opening Expert - Turnaround specialist for ailing units - Strong ROCE and gearing focus - Managing owners relationship - Budget management & contract negotiations - P&L specialist, Strong in financial analysis - Human Resources Development - Public relations, Sales & Marketing - New Revenue Stream Acumen - Policy & Standards development - Team building & Leadership - Clients & Suppliers relations - Handle complexities of working in different cultural set-up - Strong Operation Background across Culinary, Food & Beverage, Sales and Marketing, Rooms Division, Finance, Engineering and Security.