Sr.Vice President
  Unique Estates Development Co Ltd.
 
 
Mukesh Kumar is a graduate from a premier Hotel Management School and also holds a degree in Arts with major in Economics and English. He is been the Service industry for the past 28 years. He is also a Certified General Manager by Ramada International University, Geneva.

Mukesh started his career with a start up company as Management Trainee and moved up the ladder in a very short span of time. He was covered by a trade magazine for being the youngest Resort Manager at the age of just 25 years. Worked at various locations within the country in Operations, Sales & Marketing and Projects at Unit as well as Corporate level during 11 years stint with the company.

His exposure with American Embassy as General Manager for their Recreation, F&B and Commissary division exposed him to the international community. His last assignment with the hospitality industry was as Vice President of Ramada Plaza Palm Grove, Mumbai. He worked as General Manager for the unit for six years and later promoted as Vice President.

He moved to retail division of the company formally in 2011 however, he started working with the division for Project Co-ordination, Pre-opening, Leasing, Fitout co-ordination etc. from mid 2010. As Head of the division, he is responsible for handling the entire Operation, Leasing and Marketing of both Malls of K Raheja Constructions. The company owns and operates two Malls in Mumbai suburb one at Andheri ( Infiniti Mall, Andheri) with built up area of 250,000 sq ft and second one at Malad (Infiniti Mall, Malad) having Built Up area of 1.20 million sq ft.

 
Praveen currently leads Strategic Planning and Analytics for OMD/OMG India to improve effectiveness for J&J, HP, VISA, StanChart, Henkel, Renault-Nissan amongst others.
 
Prior to this appointment, based in Singapore, Praveen has consulted senior business & marketing leaders on improving Marketing ROI (5+ years) in Asia Pacific. Launched MROI unit OHAL/WPP in Asia Pacific (Key categories: Logistics, Auto, Banking and finance, Telecom, mobile etc.) & developed MROI business for MindShare ATG in Asia Pacific (Key categories: FMCG, credit cards, Auto, Telecom, mobile etc.) [2009 – 2005].
 
As Business Director @ MindShare India [Delhi 1997 – 2003], he lead media businesses of GSK AOR, ESPNSTAR AOR, Timex, Pepsi flavours et al before moving on to consulting/insights role for GroupM Indonesia [2003-04] across 5 media divisions & mConsult. Noteworthy achievements are leading HSBC global pitch (insights) and cementing AOR businesses in India (overall).
 
Regular Public speaker at organized conferences, conducted several workshops for clients. He was featured on CNBC India and other trade media.
 
Praveen has an MBA & B Sc (Hon) from Osmania Univ. (Hyderabad) & DCS (Diploma in computer studies) accreditation from NCC UK.
 
He is based in Delhi/Gurgaon with his wife and 2 boys. Plays tennis, an occasional tee-off, shutter bug so travels & likes to watch movies.
 
He is based in Delhi/Gurgaon with his wife and 2 boys. Plays tennis, an occasional tee-off, shutter bug so travels & likes to watch movies.