Ranju Alex is the Market Vice President , West India. Prior to this role, Ranju served as the Market Vice President for South India and Sri Lanka for Marriott International.
Ranju is a true champion of the values and commitment towards service excellence which encompasses taking care of associates and their career development plans. She enjoys the diversity of dealing with guests, meeting individually with department heads, exploring opportunities for improvement, solving concerns and moving forward together as a team.
Ranju is very passionate about women empowerment and advocates it at her workplace. Her work towards gender diversity has resulted in her being invited by several countries like Sweden, Netherlands, UK and the US as a key note speaker on women related issues. She is the proud recipient of the “Women of the Decade in Business & Leadership” award at the Women Economic Forum, UK, in 2017. She has also been awarded the Women Super Achiever Award by Femina; Woman achiever in the Corporate Category from Aparajita 2018 by Sanmarg and the Achiever in Hospitality from SHE awards by The Telegraph.
After a 17 year tenure with The Oberoi Group, Ranju moved to Marriott International. Over the years she has received various accolades to her name, a few being “General Manager of the Year 2014”, Marriott International’s “General Manager of the Year – Asia Pacific” in 2012 and “Service Excellence General Manager of the Year 2012”. Under her guidance, JW Marriott Kolkata received a number of accolades like the‘Best Luxury Hotel’ by East India Travel Awards, Travellers review award 2017, ‘’Wedding Venue of the Year’ by the Stars of the Industry and ‘Award for Excellence’ by Condé Nast Traveller Reader’s awards 2017, among others.
Despite being a super achiever in every realm of her professional career, her commitment to work has never come in the way of her leading a fulfilling personal life. She acknowledges that her husband and children are her greatest treasures in life. A firm believer in ‘health is wealth’, she is a health and fitness conscious person who loves her sports; tennis and swimming, as much as she loves cooking for friends and family. Travelling is another favorite hobby, as this allows her to spend quality time with her family. Ranju is an avid reader, having a home library of 6000 books, she is also passionate about charity.
Ranju believes in living life to the fullest and maximizing every moment of her time to its full potential and capacity, be it professionally or personally.
