Chandrashekhar Joshi has been appointed as the General Manager of the 115 room JW Marriott Mussoorie Walnut Grove Resort and Spa slated to open in October 2014.
Chandrashekhar Joshi started his association with Marriott in 2004 as Assistant Restaurant Manager at Renaissance Mumbai Hotel & Convention Centre in F&B department. In the subsequent 10 years with Marriott, he gained a varied hotel experience with exposure in operation and Sales & Marketing. In 2007, he decided to switch to the exciting world of sales and marketing as Sales Centre Manager at Renaissance Mumbai and grew as Associate Director of Sales there and was later promoted as the Director of Sales at JW Marriott Hotel Mumbai.
After making the transition to sales, Joshi moved to the Courtyard by Marriott Mumbai International Airport as the Director of Sales and Marketing where in his two years stint as the sales & marketing head of the hotel, the hotel outperformed the luxury hotel competition consistently. He was then promoted to the position of Director of Operations at the same hotel. In this capacity, he was second in command to the General Manager for the strategic implementation of hotel operations.
Joshi has worked in the hotel industry for about 14 years. An alumnus of IHM Pusa Delhi, Joshi began his career with Le Meridien, Pune in Food and Beverage and has over 10 years of robust experience in both operations and sales & marketing
