Hails from Hyderabad which is known as the city of Nawabs, Pearls and Charminar and belongs to the family of Academicians, Engineers and Doctors.

He is an Alumni of Institute of Hotel Management, Chennai having completed his Three Year Diploma in Hotel Management in 1983. He has completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management as well as Post Graduate Diploma Management from IGNOU, New Delhi. Thereafter he went ahead and became Certified Tourism Trainer from Indian Society of Training & Development. He is also recognised as Certified Trainer by American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute, USA. In 2016, he was certified as “Qualified Learning Facilitator” by Ecole D'Hoteliere, Lausanne.

He has a decade long hotel experience having associated with leading hotel chains such as Taj Group of hotels, AK Dave Associates, Consultancy and Resorts to name a few. He has a rich 30 years of Academic experience having associated with three private Hotel Management colleges as Head of Department and later on as the Principal of Shri Shakti College of Hotel Management, Hyderabad for 11 & ½ years, which is regarded as a premier Hotel Management Institute in India and now a part of NCHMCT.

He was the Principal of Institute of Hotel Management, Jaipur for 11 & ½ years. He is soft spoken, system oriented who believes that the college has a big role in shaping the career of its students because an institute is judged by the industry on the basis of the quality of the students.

Talking about his achievements and other associations he was associated with American Hotel & Lodging Association, USA, during his tenure with Shri Shakti College of Hotel Management.

He was also the Secretary of “Association of Catering Professionals” for 5 years, which is the common body for all Catering Professionals at Hyderabad. ACP organises guest lectures, training programmes, Cookery, Quiz and Mr & Miss Hospitality Competitions for students, professionals and housewives.

Coming on to his family, he has a small family of three which comprises of his spouse, Mrs Bratati Narayan, who is also a hospitality professional and a Baker and a son, Polash Narayan, a hospitality professional from IHM Chennai and now HR Consultant for HR Solutions company in Hyderabad.

Moving onto his hobbies and interests, he is a keen cricketer who loves to play and watch cricket. He also enjoys singing and listening to old music and cooking. He keeps himself physically fit which is the essence of him being calm, patient yet very shrewd and task oriented.

After superannuation from IHM Jaipur, he is now associated with SRM Group, a Chennai based Educational Group as Principal, SRM Institute of Hotel Management, Sonipat, Haryana which offers two Hotel Management programmes.