taranjot.gulati's CV
taranjot.gulati
Senior CSuite Advisor / CEO / COO / CSO
Profile summary
Strategic Senior CSuite Advisor / CEO / COO / CSO with 24 years shaping business transformation, governance frameworks, and scalable growth strategies. Known for institutionalizing operating portfolios, driving asset management platforms, and scaling executive networks across international markets. Committed to building institutional operating models and digital capabilities.
Career highlights
Institutional Asset Management: Designed and launched the asset management operating platform at Divyasree Developers, building a leadership team overseeing property management professionals and establishing REIT readiness governance.
Smart Building Operations: Delivered smart building and artificial intelligence enabled operations technology across buildings totaling square footage backed by project governance exposure while at CBRE Singapore.
Executive Network Scaling: Built the India executive real estate network from zero to chairmen, chief executive officers, managing directors, and institutional fund leaders while scaling operations at GRI Club India.
Key skills
Professional experience
Advises boards and executive leadership on business transformation, governance frameworks, and scalable growth strategies. Partners directly with founders and promoters to build institutional operating models and digital capabilities.
- Advised board members on smart district governance standards and pre-IPO readiness across multiple infrastructure portfolios.
- Structured operating cadences and performance governance frameworks for founder-led entities.
- Designed operational models and digital transformation roadmaps for real estate investment platforms.
Challenge: Institutionalise a 27M sq. ft. operating portfolio (plus 15M sq. ft. under development) with direct oversight of Asset Enhancement of INR 300Crs | Finance | Legal |Leasing & Tenant Retention | Operations | Human Resources & Talent Management | ESG | Strategy | Projects & Asset Enhancement | Digital Platforms | Marketing | Business Intelligence
- Spearheaded a 75-person leadership team overseeing 500 property management professionals across a 27M sq. ft. operating portfolio.
- Drove net operating income uplift by 7 to 8 percent and expanded portfolio occupancy from 73 percent to 89 percent.
- Achieved a 25 percent increase in operational efficiency and an 18 percent reduction in energy intensity through governed ESG frameworks.
Shaped the operating model for a 4.672mln sq. ft. portfolio alongside 5mln sq. ft. under construction, steering an organization of 650+ personnel without a prior unified digital governance backbone.
- Managed full business unit P&L accountability across operations, compliance, technology integration, and vendor governance for a 4.672M sq. ft. portfolio.
- Directed an organization of 650+ personnel and initiated ERP, CAFM, and digital roadmap implementations to establish enterprise reporting discipline.
Guided multicultural matrixed markets and Fortune 500 stakeholder environments by translating regional strategy into local execution, while connecting commercial leadership, technology teams, and delivery partners around repeatable propositions and executive governance.
- Delivered over $50M in smart building and AI-enabled operations technology across 250+ buildings totaling 150M+ sq. ft.
- Managed $280M+ in project governance exposure and advised enterprise portfolio strategy for 50,000+ commercial desks.
- Expanded footprint into new markets targeting US$10M SaaS opportunity.
- Built the partner ecosystem underpinning the platform go-to-market.
- Executed go-to-market and sales strategies alongside an 8-person team to pursue a 150M revenue target.
- Built pricing models, solution designs, and market-entry strategies to establish a developer pipeline.
- Built India executive real estate network from zero to 170+ chairmen, CEOs, MDs, and institutional fund leaders.
- Scaled operations to USD 1.7M revenue within 16 months of launch during 2016 to 2017.
- Delivered full lifecycle capital projects for hospitality assets.
- Managed project execution phases to maintain timelines.
- Evaluated property portfolios to identify development opportunities for commercial occupiers.
- Provided strategic recommendations on asset positioning to real estate developers.
- Secured commercial properties across target markets to establish new operational sites.
- Identified high-value locations matching regional growth requirements.
- Executed corporate account development strategies across the UAE market.
- Managed client relationships and trade partnerships within the travel sector.
- Maintained portfolio relationships across client segments.
Education
Leadership, Design & Finance | Lead complex real estate environments where sustainability, financing strategy, technology disruption and execution excellence converge.
- Key focus areas:
- Structure organisations for long-term success
- New business models and disruption analysis
- Optimal financing approach and capital markets
- Dealmaking and investor frameworks
- 1. Finance Essentials 2. Time Management 3. Leveraging Your Networks
Real Estate - Digital Transformation Program 2021-2022
Strategic Business Leadership 2021
General Management Program Asia 2020-2021
International Business
Hospitality Management
Harvard Business School Real Estate Management Program Leadership, Design & Finance Lead complex real estate environments where sustainability, financing strategy, technology disruption and execution excellence converge. Key focus areas: Structure organisations for long-term success
Singapore, Singapore
Singapore, Singapore National University of Singapore
Singapore NUS Singapore & ISB Hyderabad
Ooty, India MSASH INDIA | Swiss Higher Diploma In Hospitality Management