Kazi will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of sales and marketing for these hotels

Sheraton Hyderabad Hotel has appointed Samit Kazi as Cluster Director of Sales and Marketing for SAMHI Hotel. He will be based out of Sheraton Hyderabad and will work along with Pranay Verdia, Cluster General Manager for SAMHI hotels. With an objective of improving the hotel’s overall commercial performance by significantly increasing market share and positioning the individual property as a market leader, he will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of sales and marketing for these hotels

With a total of 18 years of hospitality experience, Kazi has worked with prominent brands like Leela, Taj, and Marriott and Accor. He started his career with Marriott’s flagship hotel Renaissance Mumbai Hotel and Convention Centre back in 2003. He has a wide-ranging sales experience in markets like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune while handling unit, regional, national and global sales profiles. 

During his decade long tenure at Accor Hotels from 2011 to 2021. Kazi was part of Accor Hotels corporate office managing strategic sales for new openings and revival hotels. He successfully managed to open the first Global Sales Office for Accor in Mumbai and was heading the west India region for domestic and international hotels. Later he took an operational role at Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre and was managing hotel operations and was equally involved in spearheading sales and marketing for the unit. His last assignment was with Novotel Kochi Infopark as General Manager with a successful turnaround of hotel performance within four months of his joining.