Master Strokes!

ABIL Group MD Amit Bhosale’s timely business decisions have helped him juggle their real estate, hospitality and infrastructure interests with stellar success.

- Mitalee Kurdekar

If there is one thing Amit Bhosale, MD, ABIL Group, knows, it is how to make a winner of a venture he takes on. Whether it was his pet project, The Westin, Pune, when he first started out in the family business or his more recent, runaway triumph, St Regis, Mumbai, he has many accomplishments to boast of, at a very young age. While the hospitality segment is what makes him tick, he is equally confident in his real estate moves, with landmark developments currently springing up across Pune and Mumbai.

As the dynamic scion builds on his father and ABIL’s founder chairman Avinash Bhosale’s legacy of creating uber-luxurious properties, there is no doubt that he has also mastered the fine art of balancing multiple construction segments, deftly manoeuvring between real estate and hospitality, much like his father switched from handling the former in the 80s to developing infrastructure projects when the market required him to do so in the 90s. While the senior Bhosale still looks after the group’s infrastructure portfolio, Amit has eagerly picked up the real estate-cum-hospitality baton that his father handed him, and hit the ground running with full gusto.

And that is a fascinating story in itself. As I sit in Bhosale’s opulent office at the St Regis, he explains how prior to treading down the same path as his father, he dabbled in the restaurant business. And he tasted success too, setting up some popular eateries in Pune. But destiny had other plans in mind.

MARKED FOR SUCCESS