Lakshmi Narasimhan Soundararajan

Lakshmi Narasimhan Soundararajan is the Founder of Ignite Insight LLC a New York City based consultancy, which specializes in Group Executive Training, Coaching, Consulting & eLearning. Lakshmi has been teaching Financial Management related courses during Spring & Fall semesters as Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University, Jonathan M Tisch Center for Hospitality since 2013. Prior to founding his company, Lakshmi was the Vice President Finance of an award-winning Hong Kong headquartered luxury hotel chain - Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts. He has more than 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry (14 of them in a senior corporate level). Lakshmi has designed a series of 2 Day Finance Courses for non-financial managers in the hospitality industry, which he delivers personally. Lakshmi’s online Skills Academy offers courses that are self-paced, jargon free in an inter-active, blended learning environment. Lakshmi blogs every week about hotel, restaurant, revenue management and profitability at http://www.profitsmasterclassblog.com/ When not running his training sessions, Lakshmi indulges in his passion for wildlife, nature still and video photography or going on exciting road trips with his wife. Lakshmi can be contacted at 201-253 5000, [email protected] or at LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/slakshminarasimhan/.