HCVB Board

Department of Tourism,  Government of Andhra Pradesh , India	HICC - Hyderabad International Convention Centre	GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd.
The Westin Hyderabad Mindspace	Hyderabad Marriott Hotel and Convention Centre	KW Conferences Pvt Ltd

Executive Team

Jalil (Gary) Khan
CEO,
Hyderabad Convention Visitors Bureau-India

Mr. Jalil (Gary) Khan is a veteran strategist and tactician, with more than 23 years of rich and diverse leadership experience in managing the travel and tourism business lines.

He holds a MBA (Marketing, Corporate Finance, and Multinational Enterprises) from one of the premium universities in the United States   He has been a globetrotter since his childhood and educated in some of the finest private schools spanning 4 continents: United States, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Exposure
As a District Account Manager at United Airlines based in San Francisco, he managed the top revenue territory of corporate Fortune 500 accounts in Northern California with over $290M in Air Travel & Leisure spend. Throughout his 23 years with United Airlines, he has demonstrated a consistent track record of delivering extraordinary results in growth, revenue and sales performance.

He is a charismatic and natural salesman; his Airline industry pedigree gives him a strong predilection for customer expectation, management and destination marketing.

Having pioneered and spearheaded numerous initiatives on Exhibition/Convention Sales and Group Meeting Agreements, he has established a successful track record when being in charge; a demonstrated acumen for team motivation, and proclivity for analytical detail. He was United Airlines’ point person entrusted with autonomous authority to conduct worldwide negotiations on corporate volume agreements.

He has an in-depth perception of current trends, technological developments, and competition-influencing vectors in the global travel industry and Convention Sales.

He was responsible for initiating and finalizing numerous high-revenue deals by conducting seminars/symposiums on geo-political realities and cross-cultural sensitivities; educating U.S. Tour Operators and wholesalers to promote international destinations to their customers. With United Airlines commencing Round-the-World service in 1999, he was commissioned to introduce corporate sales in India holding educational seminars to travel agencies and corporate customers throughout India and building an impressive customer oriented network.

As United’s international marketing emissary, he has hosted familiarization and Global expeditions with Tour Operators and key end-use customers for first-hand familiarity with corporate goals facilitating a Win-Win disposition.

Mr. Khan’s inspiration for Destination Marketing has been influenced by a select fraternity of world leaders and institutions; more notably the Ministry of Tourism, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India as well as by the vision and statesmanship of  HH Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, the Minister for Tourism, and HH Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdul Aziz (the son of the late King Faisal) of Saudi Arabia during his privileged, private audiences in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in March 2010.

Honors & Recognitions

• Delegate to the UN Conference on Human Rights, Geneva
• West Region Annual Leadership Excellence (1996) - United Airlines
• Destination Success-Apollo Automation Sales Award (1995) – United Airlines
• Pride in the Friendly Skies (1986) – United Airlines

Paul Archer
President of the Board,
Hyderabad Convention Visitors Bureau-India

Paul Archer has been working in the Hospitality Industry for the past 30 years, he started his career in the industry as an apprentice chef working in some of the top Restaurants in Sydney Australia. Once Paul finished his Apprenticeship he worked his way up to executive chef level and then onto owning & operating his own restaurant at the age of 24, during this time was when Paul found his passion laid beyond the kitchen and he started to work more in the front of house operation whilst pursuing and obtaining a Graduate Degree in Hospitality Management.

In 1992 Paul entered the Hotel industry as Conference Manager at Iconic Holiday Inn Menzies Hotel in Sydney, Paul has worked for three International Chains of Hotels during his career Joining Accor in 1996, Paul has worked with Accor for the past 16 years in the Asia Pacific region having worked in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and now India.

Having worked his way through all the departments within the Hotels Paul achieved his goal of being a GM in 1999. In India Paul’s role is the Regional General Manager for Andhra Pradesh, where today he is in charge of 4 Hotels and a convention centre, These Hotels being the Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre, Novotel Hyderabad Airport, Mercure Abids, Hyderabad International Convention Centre & the soon to be opened Novotel Vizag, in total this is 895 rooms & a 8000 seat convention centre which in total turnover more than 200 crores of revenue per year.

Paul has a huge passion for the industry and enjoys the fast pace, every changing challenges that the industry throws up each day.