Amit Shetty

Head the leasing function across Embassy REIT & Embassy Group portfolio across 6 cities (NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai, Trivandrum). The portfolio includes 10 large infrastructure like business parks, 5 city centric properties and retail assets.

Co-Headed the Commercial Leasing Business (South) at Embassy REIT, which is India's First and Asia's largest REIT. Embassy REIT owns and operates a 50.5 million square feet (“msf”) portfolio of nine infrastructure-like office parks and four city centre office buildings in India’s best-performing office markets of Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, and the National Capital Region (“NCR”). Embassy REIT’s portfolio is home to over 240 of the world’s leading companies. The portfolio also comprises strategic amenities, including four operational business hotels, four under construction hotels, and a 100MW solar park supplying renewable energy to tenants.

At CBRE headed the Transaction Services Business leading a team of 54 Brokers. Responsible for the P&L of business, driving growth, building a team of self motivated individuals, building a micro culture and managing client relationships. Was awarded the Asia Circle of Excellence for wining delivering the largest build to suit campus sale transaction. Headed multiple key new initiatives like developing co-working/managed office business for Bangalore (ii) Investor sales business for Bangalore (iii) Developer/ Landlord Representation business in Bangalore. Have had the fortune and distinction of leading the most profitable business in CBRE India.

The primary responsibility was to manage all aspects of the commercial & corporate real estate process (development of real estate strategy; defining & optimizing space requirements and workplace strategies; site selections; negotiations; tenant improvements; property management; and dispositions) within the India region.Responsibile for driving change across Honeywell’s diverse India portfolio through pro-active portfolio management.

Managing Key Corporate Accounts and their Real Estate portfolio in the India Region. Working closely with Senior RE leadership and Business Leaders on RE strategies across the portfolio. Implementing RE projects on behalf of the corporate clients. The core RE focus was in the region of Lease Acquisition, Lease Exit, Rooftop Consolidations, Re-Negotiations, Workplace optimization, Dispositions etc. Have hands on experience in driving Lease v/s Buy Strategy, SEZ v/s STPI strategy, Tier II/III city analysis and implemention of projects in Tier II/III locations.

This role was pursued along with MBA, responsibilities were with supporting the Sales Intelligence Team. With key focus on market analysis and reasearch of the North Americian Market for launch of Oracle products ( Timing, Pricing, Volume Analysis). The other responsibilities included providing specific intelligence inputs to Sales team, cross vertical intelligence etc.

Central Data Systems are the channel partners for Hewlett Packard (HP), Cisco, Sun Microsystems & APC. In this role I was responsible for Business Development in business machine sales of Hewlett Packard( Personal System Group). During this tenure was also responsible to manage key corporate accounts and lead business pitches along the sales team of HP. From October 2004 to July 2005 worked part time in this role while attending Business School.