Team
A bench built on operating experience.
Operators before financiers. Eighty years in hospitality between them, across destinations in multiple regions.
Thirty years at the senior end of wealth management, capital deployment and corporate finance. An active investor and strategic financier who architects the financial structures behind a growth plan rather than only funding it.
- Founder of Sona Finance and Karthil Finance
- 500+ customers under management
- 30+ years across wealth management, capital deployment and corporate finance
- Real-estate portfolio held across Kochi and Bengaluru
- Boutique residences and homestays operated with Airbnb
Thirty years in hospitality technology and enterprise business development across the Gulf. He has built regional operations from zero — opening offices, establishing dealer channels and growing enterprise portfolios across the UAE and the wider Middle East.
- 85+ branded properties migrated to new platforms — IHG 35+, Marriott 30+, Accor 20+
- Payments deployed across 135+ Costa Coffee outlets
- Hospitality systems delivered across 12 premier Gulf properties
- Accounts include Emirates Palace, Rotana, Jumeirah, Kempinski and Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi
Twenty years across hospitality point-of-sale implementation, support and product ownership. He has built products from the architecture upward — stack and database design through to launch.
- 120+ site implementations delivered per month, national and international
- POS and materials-management product built and launched in 16 months; live at 80+ locations across 30+ F&B brands
- Three platform generations rolled across 300+ sites
- Banqueting solution conceptualised and deployed at Royal Orchid Group of Hotels