Dipak Haksar, the soft-spoken and suave General Manager of the ITC Maurya Sheraton, New Delhi, has been elevated as Vice-President, ITC-Prefixed Hotels. The promotion makes Haksar the operational head of all luxury properties of the ITC Hotels Division. He succeeds Suresh Kumar, who has moved on as Managing Director, Fortune Hotels, taking over from Mandeep Lamba, who, according to the market buzz, has got a great offer from a London-based conglomerate.

Haksar, who hails from an illustrious Delhi Kashmiri family associated with the famous Connaught Place store Pandit Bros, will hold the dual charge of General Manager of the Maurya until his second-in-command, the quietly efficient Anil Chadha, a blue-eyed boy of the top management, completes his grooming for the position.

The ITC Hotels Chief Executive, Nakul Anand, had previously held the dual appointment that has now gone to Haksar, who, incidentally, is best-known as the man who opened the Grand Maratha at a very bad time for the industry and steered it for five years.