NAJEEB KUNIL, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, PIONEER PROPERTY ZONE SERVICES PVT LTD.

Najeeb, a graduate from Mumbai University with a business program from the University of Michigan and IIM-A, has over 20 years of experience in the real estate sector with specialisation in large retail centric assets.

Over the years, Najeeb has been actively involved in closure of multiple transactions in the property segment. He has in-depth knowledge on the local markets, demographics and an extensive network with leading developers, land owners, national retailers and financial institutions.

Over the last decade, he has developed expertise in managing large properties. He has a proven track record in optimising revenue and increasing valuation of large retail centric assets.

In the current portfolio in PPZ as CEO the latest specific key points in achievements are he manages 8 operational malls, additional 13 malls under different stages of development, pegged to be operational between the next 1-3 years

He has operations over 13 cities, where at all these places they collect live data to understand the marketing from all these cities for informed decision making

The key attributes in the last few years have been in turning around malls from debt driven status to successfully operational malls like – Vega City in Bangalore and Marina Mall in Chennai. Primarily restructuring debt deals to operationally making malls financially successful

Also grown expertise in growing the top line of any mall eventually making high valuation returns of the mall owners – Pacific Delhi, Pacific Dehradun and Vega City, B’lore