Lemon Tree Hotels Limited, India’s largest hotel chain in the mid-priced hotel sector, announced the re-appointment of Dr. Arindam Kumar Bhattacharya as Independent Director on the company’s Board, with effect from April 11, 2024.
According to the company’s exchange filing, “This is to inform you that the Board of Director’s at its meeting held on 307 May, 2023, on the recommendation of Nomination & Remuneration Committee approved the re-appointment of Dr. Arindam Kumar Bhattacharya (DIN: 01570746) as an Independent Director of the Company for a further period of five (5) years with effect from April 11, 2024 as his current term will expire on April 10, 2024.”
Dr. Arindam Kumar Bhattacharya, Independent Director, investor, and Senior Advisor to BCG from where he retired as Senior Partner and Managing Director. In BCG he held many leadership roles and was a co-leader and founder of Bruce Henderson Institute, BCG’s thought leadership institution. He headed BCG India, leading BCG’s operations in the country for about six years. He was a member of global leadership team of the Global Advantage practice and was earlier member of the global leadership teams of Industrial Goods, Public Sector and Social Impact practices and founder and co-leader of BCG’s Global Advantage Practice. As a BCG Fellow he has focused his research on Globalization and has and has authored two books Globality– Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything, and Beyond Great – Nine Strategies for Thriving in an Era of Social Tension, Economic Nationalism and Technological Revolution, and numerous articles on the subject.
Starting his career with the Eicher Group in India as a graduate engineer trainee, Dr. Bhattacharya has over 30 years of experience in the industry and consulting with focus on the industrial sector. In recent years he has led the BCG’s growing engagement with Central and State Governments on both economic and on social sector topics like education and health, and consulted with organizations like World Food Programme, Save the Children, Gates Foundation and World Bank.
Dr Bhattacharya is a past member of National Council of Confederation of Indian Industry and has co-chaired CII’s National Manufacturing Council. He is a member of the International Advisory Boards of Oxford India Center of Sustainable Development, Oxford University, the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego, and Munjal School for Global Manufacturing at the Indian School of Business. He is on board of Lemon Tree Hotels and WISH Foundation, India’s biggest Public Health NGO.
Dr. Bhattacharya was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, UK where he completed his MSc in Manufacturing Systems and Doctorate of Engineering.
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