Jaiwant Daulat Singh is 45 years of age and is one of the Director/ Co-Founder of the Company. Jaiwant has been involved in structuring the project, overseeing accounts and administration of the Company, preparing the marketing literature and working closely with the legal advisor to prepare all legal documentation for this project.

Jaiwant is also the Director of Daulat Singh Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (“DSC”) which he founded in November 2002 with the objective of providing strategic consulting services to both international and domestic clients in hospitality, real estate, healthcare and metals and mining sector in India.

Prior to setting up his own company, Jaiwant worked with HSBC Investment Banking (“HSBC”) in New Delhi for four (4) years. Jaiwant was part of the execution team in HSBC and worked on a number of privatisation/ divestment transactions including IBP Co. Ltd., India Tourism Development Corporation (acquisition of Lodhi and Qutab Hotel in New Delhi), Hotel Corporation of India, Airports Authority of India, Hindustan Zinc Ltd. and CMC Limited.

In the hospitality sector, Jaiwant has worked closely with HVS International in advising a number of domestic and overseas clients for the proposed acquisition of several hotel properties in India. Jaiwant successfully advised Emaar MGF Land Ltd., India (“Emaar MGF”) in their joint venture negotiations with Global Hyatt Corporation for developing and operating twenty (20) ‘Hyatt Place’ hotels in India and management contract negotiations with InterContinental Hotels Group, Marriott Hotels International B.V. and Global Hyatt Corporation for hotel developments across different brands in several cities of India, including but not limited to, Kolkata, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Dehradun, Amritsar, Mysore, Mangalore, Lucknow, Mohali, Pune, Gurgaon, Cochin, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar etc.

Jaiwant was also the exclusive transaction advisor to Emaar MGF for acquiring leasehold rights in a 3.5 acres hotel site on Russell Street in Kolkata (Royal Calcutta Turf Club property), a 5.61 acres hotel site at the junction of Dhapa Road and Eastern Metropolitan By-Pass in Kolkata and a 10 acres hotel and convention centre site in Dehradun. In addition to the above, Jaiwant is currently advising Fomento Resorts and Hotels Ltd., India, Wellside Hotels and Resorts Pvt. Ltd., India, Omaxe Limited, India, BPTP Ltd., India and Taneja Developers & Infrastructure Ltd., India for management contract negotiations with international hotel management companies for their hotels/ service apartments in Goa, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Noida and Agra respectively.

In the real estate sector, Jaiwant has worked on the sale of few signature Lutyens’ Bungalow Zone residential properties in New Delhi, including but not limited to, the sale of 5 Man Singh Road (the largest private sale of a residential property in New Delhi), 3 Tilak Marg, 24 Prithiviraj Road etc.

In the healthcare sector, Jaiwant is the exclusive transaction advisor to Emaar MGF for negotiating the joint venture with Fortis Healthcare Ltd. for developing and operating twenty five (25) hospitals in India.

In the metals sector, Jaiwant was appointed as the exclusive advisor to Xstrata Copper, Australia (erstwhile NorandaFalconbridge, Chile) in India for identifying investment opportunities in the Indian metals and mining sector.

In addition to the running his own consulting firm, Jaiwant is also one of the founding/ working partners of ‘Photoink’, a photography gallery, recently established in New Delhi in February 2008.

Jaiwant holds a BA (Hons) in Business Economics from Durham University, UK.