Constructing You with Amit Puri - Winning the Championship

Qualified as an Architect MBA, Amit has been working to contribute to the global real estate sector for two and a half decades. He has spent almost a decade in the region curating stories for mixed-use and retail assets. Amit has rich experience with brands such as Ivanhoe Cambridge, Old mutual group, McArthur, RMZ, Colliers, Cushman & Wakefield, and DLF in leadership positions. All along his passionate journey in real estate, he has been instrumental in formulating innovative strategies and opening top new revenue streams for his stakeholders. He has worked for multi billion private family offices and publicly listed institutional funds and developers to build businesses from scratch or help grow them to the next level.

Amit is currently the Partner and Board advisor at ACR Partners & Chief strategy office at Aliriza Robotics. Until recently, in his last role at DAMAC Properties, Amit handled the entire P&L of the leased and managed assets. Amit's prime focus was to establish DAMAC as a mixed-use and community retail player in the region, which included developing new territories for DAMAC in London, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. He built a mall management team through strategic hiring and mentoring for delivering exceptional retailer and customer experiences. In parallel, he ensured the enhancement of productivity and overall valuation of the operational assets of DAMAC through management of DAMAC owned malls in the United Arab Emirates.

Amit has been invited to speak at esteemed retail events such as ICSC (Jakarta), MECSC (Dubai), World Corporate Summit (Dubai), Future Retail Destinations (Qatar), 11th Annual Shopping Mall Summit Malaysia, 12th Annual Shopping Mall Summit (Thailand), 9th Annual CEM & Customer Loyalty MENA Summit (Dubai), and Property Technology Festival (Dubai) to name a few. In his free time, Amit likes to assess feasibility of tech start ups and help them grow. He also likes to play off as time permits and he is a progressive believer in the powerful adage "Teamwork makes the dream work".

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