Final contenders for Hotelier India Awards 2011

The Trident Bandra Kurla was abuzz with activity all day on November 25, when the jury for Hotelier India Awards 2011 convened to decide the winners. The intense, day-long session in Mumbai saw the judges pore over the merits of almost 400 nominees across a range of segments. Their task was to find one winner and up to five runners up in each of the 14 categories.
Since the awards are for operational excellence, the task before the jury was to take into account individual performance indicators rather than those related to the brand or the property. This year, in some categories the jury has selected winners separately for budget and luxury.
The final list of nominees was selected from qualifying nominations according to merit and consensus. Whether it was the Unsung Hero, the Chef, the Procurement Manager or the Chief Engineer of the Year, candidates completed detailed nomination forms to state why they deserved the award. The jury in turn, committed to fairness and exercising precise attention to detail, put their heads together to select the candidates most deserving of the tag of ‘excellence’.
The Hotelier Awards ceremony will be held at The Westin, Gurgaon, on December 16. At it, the Who’s Who of the hospitality industry will be present on the confirmed guest list. Alongside them, team members will cheer on all the shortlisted candidates, each of whom competing with the best, as they vie to be declared winners.
The editorial board has decided to confer the Lifetime Achievement Award to Captain CP Krishnan Nair of The Leela Group. The Hall of Fame Award, meanwhile, will be awarded to Priya Paul, head of Apeejay Surendra Park Hotels, at the ceremony, which will be held tomorrow, December 16 at The Westin Gurgaon.

 

Moen presents general manager of the year:

Anil Chadha
ITC Gardenia
Bengaluru

Andrew Hendrian
The Leela Palace
Bangalore

Anuraag Bhatnagar
The Westin
Pune Koregaon Park

Kunal Banerjee
The Floatel
Kolkata

Manish Dayya
The Raintree Hotels
Chennai

Saji Joseph
Alila Diwa
Goa

Sanjay Sharma
The Westin
Gurgaon

Vishal Bharti
Trident Agra

Visheshwar Raj Singh
Trident, Bandra Kurla, Mumbai

Atmosphere presents housekeeper of the year

Bini Simon
ITC Windsor
Bangalore

Harinder Kishore
Leela Kempinski Hotel & Residences Gurgaon

Jaiprakash Rajadurai
Novotel
Hyderabad Convention Center

Mandeep Singh Aasht
Jaypee Palace Hotel & Convention Centre
Agra

 

Stallion presents F&B manager of the year

Amaan Ur Rehman Kidwai
ITC Gardenia
Bengaluru

Udiksha Panshikar
Trident
Bandra Kurla Mumbai

Rajesh Namby
The Leela Palace
New Delhi

Suresh Anthony
The Raintree Hotels
Chennai

 

RAK Porcelain presents chef of the year

Chef Abhijit Saha
Avant Garde Hospitality
Bangalore

Chef Rohit Gambhir
Trident, Bandra Kurla
Mumbai

Chef Rohit Tokhi
The Leela Kempinski
Gurgaon Hotel & Residences

Sandeep Kalra
Trident
Gurgaon

Surjan Singh Jolly
Renaissance Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel
Mumbai

Grundfos presents chief engineer of the year

Ahsan Ali Khan
Ibis
Gurgaon

Ajay Kumar Nayak
ITC Windsor
Bangalore

Devesh Gupta
Radisson MBD Blu Hotel
Noida

Ganesan L
The Westin
Hyderabad Mindspace

Masih Siddiqui
Hilton
Mumbai International Airport

 

IDeaS presents sales/ revenue person of the year

Megha Ajgaonkar
The Westin Pune
Koregaon Park

Shiraj Shikhar
The Oberoi Grand

Sukhbir Singh
Novotel
Hyderabad

Tarun Sobti
The Oberoi & Trident
Gurgaon

Vipul Khamboj
The Leela Kempinski
Gurgaon

IDS Next presents IT person of the year

Gangaram Sawant
Vivanta By Taj
Panaji Goa

Jackson George
Berggruen Hotels

Saravanan B Ayyappan
Aloft Chennai

 

Marketing and PR person of the year

Akanksha Banerji
The Oberoi
Gurgaon & Trident
Gurgaon

Srijan Vadhera
Sheraton Bangalore Hotel at Brigade Gateway

 

 

Precor presents spa and fitness person of the year

Gurpreet Kaur
ITC Maratha &
ITC Grand Central

Shekhar Malkotia
The Claridges, Surajkund
Delhi NCR

Yeni Triayuningsih
The Oberoi Gurgaon and
The Trident Gurgaon

 

Muslin presents HR person of the year

Gurleen Bhalla
Courtyard by Marriott
Hyderabad

Mallika Rao Bedi
Trident, Gurgaon and
The Oberoi
Gurgaon

P M Sriraj
Leela Palace
Bangalore

Muthusivan Pillai
Crowne Plaza
Bengaluru Electronics City

Salman Azam Qureshi
The Park New Delhi
 

Laundry manager of the year

Dr Jayant Baxi
Crowne Plaza Today
Gurgaon

G Ramana Rao
ITC Gardenia
Bengaluru

Parshuram Sundrik
Le Meridien
Pune

V Balakrishnan
The Oberoi
Gurgaon

 

Harman presents procurement person of the year

Abhijit Joshi
The Westin
Pune Koregaon Park

Asheame Mehta
The Oberoi
New Delhi

Naresh Kumar
Lemon Tree Hotel
Delhi

Raymond Fernandes
Alila Diwa
Goa

Sameer Nair
JW Marriott
Mumbai

Everest presents unsung hero of the year

Ashokan PA
Le Meridien, Kochi

Munna Singh
The Grand
New Delhi

Naresh Goswami
The Gateway Hotel Ahmedabad

Ramesh
Radisson Blu Resort
Temple Bay, Mamallapuram
Tamil Nadu

Saneej Pottakkad
The Gateway Hotel Mangalore