The siblings check in
Ayear ago, Jyotsna Suri fired the COO of her company, Bharat Hotels Ltd. In previous interviews with BT, she had talked of differences between the mindset of a professional and the needs of a family business ever since her husband Lalit Suri's death in 2006.
In 2009, when Jyotsna had to take the helm, she put three of her four children—Divya, Deeksha and Keshav—in the posts of ED in Bharat Hotels. The fourth, Shradha, is currently MD at Subros, another family concern which is India's largest manufacturer of car air conditioners.
The children, she admits, have taken a massive workload off her shoulders. While she still calls the shots, clearing every major decision, other operational decisions are taken to a large extent by her children, whose educational specialisation fit in perfectly with the needs of a fastgrowing hotel chain.
In fact, over the past two years, Bharat Hotels has grown at a faster pace than ever before in its history with all hands of the family playing a role. A case of a family together beating professionals.
Deeksha Suri, 27, MBA, LSE
| Shradha Suri Marwah, 31, Economics and Information Systems, LSE
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Keshav Suri, 24, MSc International Management from King's College London; LLM, SOAS, London
| Divya Suri Singh, 35, Law, King's College London
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