Vishal has 24 years of international hospitality experience in four countries. He started his career as a Management Trainee with Marriott International and transitioned from Operations to Sales and from 2005-2012 in Maryland and Washington DC area with Marriott.

He was transferred to India in 2012, where he up the leisure division for Marriott’s National Sales Organization.

Vishal joined Hilton Worldwide as a General Manager in 2015 and worked at the Hilton Garden Inn Trivandrum and Hilton Jaipur until 2022. An entrepreneur at heart, Vishal took all his business and financial acumen, co-founded an Ed Tech platform in 2022, and ran it for 18 months.

Vishal believes in having a growth mind-set and is a constant learner. He completed a one year Advance General Management Program in 2020-21from IIM – Ahmedabad as well as he is a certified Executive Leadership coach from George Mason University, Virginia. He did his Bachelors of Business in Hotel Administration from the Hotel School, Southern Cross University, Australia and passed out from IHM Chandigarh in 1999.

On the personal front, Vishal, an Edwardian and a Shimlite, he likes to read, travel and play golf.