Amit Jatia

Director at PVR Ltd

Amit Jatia is the Vice Chairman at Westlife Foodworld Ltd, formerly known as Westlife Development, the master franchisee of McDonald’s® restaurants in West & South India.

In his role as the leader of the world’s largest and most loved QSR brand in West & South India, Amit is responsible for providing strategic direction to the business and leading the team towards achieving rapid growth and profitability.

Amit’s tryst with entrepreneurship started early when he joined his family’s manufacturing business and led many critical projects successfully. In 1996, Amit got the opportunity of setting up McDonald’s in India and has been an integral part of the QSR industry for over 25 years. Under his leadership, McDonald’s expanded its footprint to over 300 restaurants, launched its in-house coffee chain McCafé and scaled itself to a food tech company going from strength to strength.

Amit is passionate about mentoring businesses and often guides several other family-owned firms.

In 2003, Amit was bestowed with the ‘Young Achievers Award’, by the Indo-American Society. Business World, a leading business magazine named McDonald’s the ‘Most Respected Company in the Food Sector for three consecutive years.


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PVR Ltd

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PVR Limited is an India-based holding company. The Company is a film entertainment company, which is engaged in the motion picture exhibition in cinemas. The Company has organized its operations into three business segments: Movie exhibition, Movie Production & Distribution, and Others. Its Others segment includes bowling, gaming and restaurant. The Company is also engaged in in-cinema advertisements/product displays and sale of food and beverages at cinema locations. The Company offers technologies, including 4DX Technology, which stimulates the senses with effects, such as seat motion, wind, rain, fog, lights and scents to match the audio and video in both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D); IMAX, which provides a viewing technology with optimized sound and projection system, and Playhouse, which is designed for kids. The Company operates a network of approximately 550 screens spread over 120 properties in approximately 50 cities across the country.


Headquarters

Gurgaon, India

Employees

10,000+

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