Foundation
Oberoi Grand & The Regent, Mumbai
Luxury operations
Trained inside two of India’s most exacting service cultures. Oberoi discipline and Regent’s approach to UHNW hospitality established the operating baseline.
Leadership & operating record
The operator behind the mandate.
Tara Hospitality is a hospitality-led management group shaped by 28 years of operating experience across luxury hotels, resorts, branded residences and private estates. That judgement supports owners and developers across hospitality, travel and real estate.
Rana Mukherji
Founder & Managing Director
28
years operating
14
years Fairmont / Raffles
4
continents
2025
Tara founded
The leadership team
Three senior principals lead Tara across operations, European execution and the UK–UAE gateway. Jump straight to any profile.
Selected operating record
Evidence, not adjectives.
Eight chapters selected for what they demonstrate to an owner today: standards, opening discipline, turnaround capability, residence expertise and trusted stewardship.
01
1998—2002
02
2002—2009
Flagship openings
Fairmont Dubai & Raffles Dubai
Pre-opening leadership
Part of the founding team for Fairmont’s Middle East flagship, then authored service SOPs and guest protocols for the launch of Raffles Dubai.
03
2009—2012
Heritage hotels
Fairmont Mount Kenya & Fairmont Norfolk
Hotel Manager
Led operations across two heritage icons in Africa and received Fairmont’s global Service Excellence award.
04
2012—2014
Turnaround
Fairmont Zimbali Resort & Lodge
Director of Operations · TQM plan lead
Directed operations and drove the TQM plan for a complex luxury resort turnaround, aligning commercial discipline, service delivery and team performance.
05
2014—2016
Stabilisation
Fairmont The Palm & Vancouver Airport
Task force lead · Director of Operations
Led an operational reset at Fairmont The Palm before closing a 14-year Fairmont and Raffles tenure as Director of Operations in Canada.
06
2016—2018
Owner-operator leadership
IFA Hotels & Resorts
General Manager, Hospitality
Led hospitality within a mixed-use master developer, hotel owner and management company, including the opening and operation of serviced residences on Palm Jumeirah.
07
2018—2024
Owner side
Hospitality advisory & travel technology
Founder · Owner representative
Fiduciary advisory for institutional hotel owners across EMEA, alongside earlier travel-technology ventures recognised by Forbes and international award bodies.
08
2024—2025
UHNW stewardship
Confidential hospitality portfolio · Abu Dhabi
Cluster General Manager · Client confidential
200+
multinational specialists led
Total operational stewardship across a sovereign environment: privacy, protocol, state events, official receptions and a multi-million-dollar annual heritage CAPEX programme.
Mission, vision & values
Why Tara exists.
Mission
To turn every hotel, resort and residence we touch into a better-run, more valuable asset for its owner.
Vision
To be the operating partner owners, investors and hospitality brands call first when they need luxury standards without giving up control of the asset.
Owner first
Every recommendation is judged by what it does for the asset and the owner's return, not for the operator's fee.
Standards you can see
Quality is written down, trained, audited and reported. If it cannot be measured, it is not yet a standard.
Warm in front, rigorous behind
Guests should feel welcomed, never processed. That ease is built by discipline the guest never sees.
Plain accountability
One named lead, clear decision rights and honest reporting, including when the news is not good.
What owners gain
Experience translated into owner advantage.
“The work is not to make an asset look managed. It is to make the decisions, standards and accountability unmistakable.”
At acquisition
An operator’s reading of the asset, the operating model and the risks hidden behind the underwriting.
At transition
A disciplined first 90 days: control, standards, team alignment and an executable performance agenda.
At operation
Owner-side challenge without theatre—commercial rigour, service discipline and clear accountability.
At repositioning
Experience joining the guest proposition, operating model, residence strategy and capital plan.
Tara Hospitality · 2025 onward
Senior operating depth, placed directly with the owner.
Tara undertakes white-label hotel and residence management, TQM implementation, owner representation and selected advisory mandates for LPs, asset managers and real estate funds. The proposition is deliberately focused: senior attention, disciplined operating control and a clear line from decision to outcome.
Operated by Tara Limited
Companies in operation.
Tara Limited operates hospitality, travel and customer-value platforms alongside its owner-side mandates.
European execution
Xavier Olivella
Managing Partner, Europe · Luxembourg
Xavier leads Tara's European transaction-structuring and execution work. His role connects investment intent with practical ownership structures, acquisition coordination, governance and regulatory workstreams across European mandates.
SPV structuring
Acquisition coordination
Governance & compliance
UK–UAE gateway
Owais Shah
Managing Partner · Cornerstone Partner & Ambassador
Owais leads Tara's UK–UAE gateway as Managing Partner and a cornerstone partner in the group. He drives business development across the corridor in both directions—helping international businesses enter and scale in the UAE, and opening UK and global markets for Tara's partners—and acts as a trusted principal to represent and place strategic partners on the ground. His remit spans partnerships and business development, sports management and leadership consultancy, alongside a health, sports and lifestyle practice that runs from elite coaching to executive mentorship.
A celebrated England international across all three formats, Owais captained England to the 1998 Under-19 World Cup title and earned his Test debut after topping the County Championship's First Division run charts in 2005. Over a twenty-year career he starred in the Indian Premier League and for domestic sides across India, England, South Africa and New Zealand—a middle-order batsman as respected for his team-first mindset as for his shot-making.
Since retiring from first-class cricket he has led the Rajshahi Royals to a Bangladesh Premier League title and served as head coach of the UAE national team, giving him a global network built over three decades in elite sport and a rare fluency in both the British and Emirati business landscapes.
UK–UAE gateway
Partnerships & business development
Sports, leadership & lifestyle
A direct conversation
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