Sudeep Jain spearheads the IHG team in South West Asia and leads both the Development and the Operations team in the region. Working with his team, his primary responsibilities include maximizing the revenues, profits, quality and service objectives of IHG hotels in the regions. He also leads the team responsible to grow IHG’s footprint and achieve its growth goals. Sudeep brings with him over 20 years of rich and varied experience in the hospitality industry across diverse roles in several countries. He was selected amongst the Top 100 most Influential People in the hospitality industry by the Hotelier Magazine for the year 2013. His career has taken him across a number of places, including New York, Boston, Singapore, Sydney, Hong Kong, and India enriching his experience and enhancing his global perspective. Sudeep has a Bachelor’s Degree from Dartmouth College where he double majored and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has also completed the PDP program at Cornell Hotel School to further enrich his hospitality knowledge.