As Senior Director for Retail in Asia Advisory Services, Ami Katiyar advises international retail, luxury, and hospitality brands seeking to expand into emerging markets. Katiyar has a history of creating and implementing successful business plans for new markets. His experience includes 13 years in strategic planning, eight years in revenue growth strategy, and six years in specialized strategy for emerging markets.

At Retail in Asia, Ami Katiyar is dedicated to assisting global brands with market exploration and development, as well as partnership assessment, across the varied markets of Asia. Katiyar has influenced a multitude of consumer industries focused on generating revenue and market share. Ami Katiyar has led global strategy efforts with luxury, retail, and hospitality brands, including Starwood Hotels & Resorts, LVMH, Levi Strauss & Co., and Bombardier?s Private Jet division.

Global and regional brands seeking to expand into the emerging markets of Asia and Latin America trust Ami Katiyar to provide them with the vision and support they need to create profitable new ventures or to revive existing divisions.

Ami Katiyar specializes in opening new markets to luxury, retail, and hospitality brands by developing strategic partnerships. He has developed plans that take existing brands and transported them to emerging markets through a combination of marketing, operations, and partnerships with local entities. Katiyar attains unique success in emerging markets because of his cultural fluency, linguistic skills, ability to negotiate, leadership experience, executive maturity, and attention to detail.

Ami Katiyar maintains an excellent track record for business expansion and transformation. He has generated non-incremental revenue in excess of $180 million while overseeing a fourfold increase in market share. His rigor and attentiveness when managing profits and losses have resulted in savings of $130 million.

Ami Katiyar?s experience in Asian markets and affiliation with Retail in Asia gives him access to hundreds of key, relevant, and influential business contacts across the continent. He uses these resources to help international corporations identify and select business partners, negotiate contracts and develop new markets. He has planned and participated in joint ventures, franchising deals, and mergers. With expertise across global strategy; international, regional, and local marketing; best practices in operations and supply chains; Ami Katiyar acts as a general manager for international brands expanding into emerging Asian markets.