Amit Saberwal

Amit Saberwal is the innovator behind RedDoorz, Southeast Asia’s largest and fastestgrowing budget hotel brand. After a 20-year career in hospitality and travel tech, he identified an opportunity to help both the region’s emerging middle-class consumers and the struggling budget hotel owners. Singapore-based RedDoorz is on its way to operating with more than 1,500 properties in more than 100 cities in Indonesia, The Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore. Prior to founding RedDoorz, he was the Chief Business Officer – Hotel and International Markets at India’s premier travel and airline booking site MakeMyTrip.com. He was instrumental in shaping the company and was also part of the leadership team growing it to IPO in three years and getting it listed on NASDAQ in 2010, with 85,000 properties globally. He was also turnkey in spearheading MakeMyTrip largest acquisition of Thailand-based HotelTravel.com. Amit has also previously worked as Director Sales and Marketing with The Park Hotels in Bangalore and New Delhi. He is a Hotel Management graduate with a Post Graduate Diploma in Sales & Marketing from National Institute for Sales, New Delhi.