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Alexander Mirza is the founder of Mogul Hospitality, a tech-led hospitality company that provides talent, booking and branding solutions for the hospitality and real estate industry; its technological engine includes an integrated suite of AI-powered tools and branding solutions that can be applied to all forms of accommodations.

Mirza is also the founder of Mogul Recruiter, a technology and services company that offers talent, booking and management solutions for the real estate industry. Mogul’s software solutions and management services address lifestyle and luxury real estate products in multiple asset classes including hotels, multi-family, office, retail, entertainment and others.

Mirza is also the founder of Mogul Hotels, a talent-led lifestyle brand that features differentiated work/live design, curated service, and cloud kitchens. Its development pipeline includes conversions and reflags of 10 distressed hotels in the U.S. with a goal of 25 hotels under management in 3 years in the U.S. alone.

Mirza has over 20 years of experience in senior executive roles in the largest hospitality and leisure companies and as an entrepreneur.

He began his career in management consulting firms including Deloitte as a partner at Accenture where he advised CEOs of Fortune 500 companies with large customer service operations including restaurant chains, airlines and ecommerce companies.

After management consulting, Mirza joined Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide as Head of Strategic Planning, reporting to the CFO and CEO. While at Starwood he designed and implement customer service-related initiatives to reinvent the Sheraton hotel brand and service innovation initiatives for the Westin and W hotel brands.

He was subsequently SVP of Corporate Development at Hilton Worldwide, where he was a member of the senior operating team, reporting to the Global President and COO. At Hilton, his responsibilities included overseeing a $2 billion USD food and beverage business, deploying over $100 million in the capital and launching the Waldorf Astoria luxury brand.

In 2013, After a year-long stint as International President on SBE’s management team reporting to Chairman Sam Nazarian, Mirza co-founded Cachet Hospitality in Shanghai and spent the next 5 years as CEO and grew the company to 15 properties open/under development in China, Thailand, the U.S. and Mexico. Under his leadership, Cachet was recognized as “Asia’s up and coming management team” with women representing over 50% of the executive team, and, won global design awards in only its 4th year of operations.

Mirza has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters degree in international relations and a 1st class Bachelors degree with distinction from Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada where he was an Aga Khan Foundation scholar.