Team

Founder

Koolesh Shah is Managing Director and owner of London Town Group of Companies, which has grown into an established hotel and residential property company with assets in excess of £200 million. In 2009 he opened Hotel Indigo London Paddington which was Intercontinental Hotel Group’s first branded boutique concept outside America. The group has a significant Central London and East Midlands portfolio and Koolesh was named Asian Business Awards Hotelier of the Year for 2017.

Nikhil Shah read Mathematics at the University of Cambridge before completing a PhD at Imperial College London (Earth Science & Engineering) sponsored by a consortium of E&P companies including Chevron. In 2013 he received the Best Geophysics Paper Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysics. He then worked for Chevron USA in Exploration Geophysics R&D (2013-2015) where he was responsible for the roll out of advanced velocity modelling products and services for the E&P business units. First deployments on acreage offshore Brazil and Nigeria. He now serves as COO of LTG portfolio company S-Cube.

A digital marketing specialist, with a background in Information Technology Management for Business. Victoria Crampton read Information Technology Management for Business at Loughborough University before writing on Web 2.0, social media published by the British Computer Society. She now serves as Marketing Director of LTG, assisting the brands in engaging with the target markets using offline and digital marketing tools. 

Amit Popat read Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, completing an MMath in 2008, before launching a successful mobile app and software development company in 2010, developing solutions for FTSE-250 companies processing payments of over £500m/year, and creating top 10 ranking mobile apps. He also worked with EasyJet (2016-2017) on the redevelopment of their new booking website, which saw an increase in revenue of 10%. He now serves as CTO of LTG.

Sandeep Cheema joined LTG in 2009 as Revenue Director and was appointed Commercial Director in 2018, overseeing daily running of the commercial sales & revenue team with a specific focus on; revenue optimisation, commercial analytics, business strategy and brand relations. She has over 15 years of experience with start-ups and hotels undergoing brand change, repositioning and has managed and led numerous hotel openings as well as rebrands, conversions and takeovers with both branded and unbranded hotels. Sandeep has a background in investment finance specifically as a global data analyst at Bloomberg LP; sourcing big datasets and analysing patterns, the pioneers of big data.