Kurian Chandy is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience of 30 years with the more than 20 years in leadership position mainly involving Strategic Planning, Setting up and monitoring systems and processes, Financial Management, Corporate Accounting with reputed organizations. Kurian Chandy has been involved in the formulation, implementation and execution of systems and processes across various companies that he has worked for, ranging from manpower intensive hotel industry, right to technology driven companies like Intel. As CEO for Intel’s Distributor in India, he spearheaded a deep market penetration strategy which led to an increase in turnover from Rs.400 to over Rs.800cr in a short span of less than two years. All the while, maintaining controls and focus on profitability and streamlining HR policies to have adequate bench strength. His understanding of Banking, finance and restructuring further helped completely turn around the entire business. His experience across leading hotel chains like The Leela, The Orchid and VITS, he knows that focusing and creating of people is an important aspect of business. Here he balanced both costs and benefits, to attract and retain the right talent, to enable growth during a time when the industry was at its toughest phase. His practical hands on approach, with pragmatic decision making have been his trademark style both working for companies and now working on companies. He is a keen communicator with exposure in working in an ERP environment.A passionate runner, he has run several marathons, and was even part of a Guinness World Record.