Rahul Pandit Moving on from Lemon Tree Hotels

By Bikramjit Ray RAHUL PANDIT, President and Executive Director of Lemon Tree Hotel Company has left his position in the company. According to sources within the company, Pandit is on leave currently and will be leaving the company on June 15. When BW Hotelier spoke to Pandit, he confirmed to us that he had left the company but was currently on leave. Though Pandit did not clarify where he was moving to, industry sources have told us that he is moving to the Taj Group of Hotels, heading one of their brands. Pandit, who graduated from IHM Pusa in 1993, began his career with Choice Hotels as a Management Trainee and then Resort Manager, before joining the Taj group in 1995. He worked for Taj till 2001 and joined The Lemon Tree Hotel Company in 2003 as part of the founding team in the role of-GM Operations and HR, with short stints before that at Spectramind as Training Manager and Grand Intercontinental Hotel, New Delhi as Front Office Manager.