RAM WASAN

Principle

Ram is a business leader with more than two decades of experience in the Food Tech, QSR and Hotel Industry. Ram is one of the few senior leaders who understands operational finesse, has business acumen and is innovative in his approach.

Ram started his career at the Oberoi School of Hotel Management. He has since worked in numerous managerial roles across the country in food & beverage, rooms division, lobby and general management. He later joined the Reliance Group of Industries as a National Head, where he developed and conceptualized their new highway hospitality business. This included the first of its kind greenfield Pan-India network of more than 125 highway plazas.

As the COO for Chalet Hotels (K Raheja Corp), Ram played a stellar leadership role in various developments – Marriott Whitefield, Westin Hyderabad, Renaissance Powai, Four Points by Sheraton Vashi among many others.

Ram was the MD Asset Management at HVS International, has worked with DLF Ltd. and has set up the Citrus Hotels brand across India. He was also a part of the team that created The Manor, India’s first designer boutique hotel and Nukkadwala a QSR chain of smart and stylish restaurants, for the value conscious.

Realizing wellness as a distinct segment, that personally appealed to him, he conceptualized and created Mekosha Ayurveda. His vision is to take Ayurveda to the world.

He divides his time between Mekosha & First City Ventures which is a boutique consulting firm for hotels, real estate, restaurants, food tech and cloud kitchens. www.firstcityventures.com