Mr. Ajoy K. Misra

Biography

In a career spanning 34 years, 30 of which with the Taj Group of Hotels, Ajoy Misra has worked in various departments of Taj Hotels from Sales and Marketing to Operations. He joined the Taj in 1980 in the Corporate Sales and Marketing Department through the Tata Administrative Services. He has a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from BITS, Pilani and went on to do a Masters Degree in Business Administration in 1980, from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University specializing in Marketing and then also did the Advanced Management Program (AMP-174) at Harvard Business School, Boston.From 1992 –1997, he was the General Manager of Taj President Hotel in Mumbai and then was in Sri Lanka as Area Director – Sri Lanka and Maldives and General Manager of the Taj Samudra Hotel in Colombo. He was last the Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing, for Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces He was appointed as Executive Director and Deputy CEO of Tata Global Beverages and subsequently has been elevated as the Managing Director and CEO of the Company with effect from 1st April 2014. He is on the Board of Directors of various Tata Group Companies.

Research Interest

In a career spanning 34 years, 30 of which with the Taj Group of Hotels, Ajoy Misra has worked in various departments of Taj Hotels from Sales and Marketing to Operations. He joined the Taj in 1980 in the Corporate Sales and Marketing Department through the Tata Administrative Services. He has a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from BITS, Pilani and went on to do a Masters Degree in Business Administration in 1980, from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University specializing in Marketing and then also did the Advanced Management Program (AMP-174) at Harvard Business School, Boston.From 1992 –1997, he was the General Manager of Taj President Hotel in Mumbai and then was in Sri Lanka as Area Director – Sri Lanka and Maldives and General Manager of the Taj Samudra Hotel in Colombo. He was last the Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing, for Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces He was appointed as Executive Director and Deputy CEO of Tata Global Beverages and subsequently has been elevated as the Managing Director and CEO of the Company with effect from 1st April 2014. He is on the Board of Directors of various Tata Group Companies.