Mr. Amrish Sahgal
Dean – Academics & Tourism Faculty
MBA – IIM (Ahmedabad)
Mr. Amrish Sahgal pursued his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from the University of Pune in 1967 before going on to do his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1969. Mr. Sahgal holds a higher level Diploma in Sales Management & Salesmanship from the London Chamber of Commerce. He also attended a course on Hotel Marketing at Cornell University, USA. He holds a Master of Exchange certificate from Interval International – one of the world’s leaders in Timeshare Management
He has had wide ranging experience with various organisations engaged in sales and marketing of consumer goods and services. These organisations have included multinationals and large Indian transnational groups like Tatas, Birlas and Oberois and the ITC group. For many years now, he has concentrated on the Services sector, in particular the Hospitality and Tourism Industry. Mr. Sahgal currently runs his own management consultancy firm engaged in Hospitality and Tourism Sectors.
Prior to this, he was President, Alsa Resorts and before that, Dy. Managing Director of Bhutan Tourism Corporation Ltd. He has also been the GM Marketing of Dalmia Resorts International. Mr. Sahgal has represented Skyline on the prestigious CII National Committee on Tourism & Heritage and those of IATO and TAAI. During his 5-year stint with Oberoi Hotels, Mr. Sahgal, in addition to his other functional responsibilities, headed the Marketing Faculty at the prestigious Oberoi School of Hotel Management for over two years.
He also conducts a number of in-house training programmes for corporate houses. At present he is representing Skyline on the education, HRM and Tourism committees of FICCI & ASSOCHAM.