Gaurav Pandey

Mr. Gaurav Pandey has over 17 years of experience in the real estate sector. He is passionate about the sector and believes it will be a key growth driver for the Indian economy.

As the CEO of the North Zone, Mr. Gaurav transformed the P&L of the business and built a high- performing team. The North Zone is now the fastest growing and most profitable zone at GPL, backed by strong business development, strategy, sales and execution excellence. In the five years of his leadership, the zone grew by 6X in Booking Value, 4X in Collections, and imputed ROCE increased very significantly to 27%. In fiscal year 2022, PAT for the North Zone was the largest contributor to GPL’s P&L.

Prior to joining Godrej, Mr. Gaurav was the CEO of Burman GSC, the joint real estate platform of the Burman family and Golden State Capital. He has also been Senior Vice President and Head Research & Consulting for India’s largest real estate research firm, PropEquity, and advised private equity funds, mutual funds, foreign institutional investors, developers, NBFCs and banks on real estate investments in India. He co-anchored The Property Show on NDTV. Prior to this, Gaurav was part of the Management Committee of Ascendas India.

He is an Economics Honours graduate from the University of Delhi and has done a post graduate course from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode. He is part of the Management Committee of GPL and serves on the Real Estate Committee of FICCI. Gaurav was recognized as the ‘Realty Personality of the Year’ by the Economic Times at the 2022 Real Estate Conclave & Awards (North).