Monday, 2 July 2012

Anshoo Sethi Chicago


The CEO of UPGROWTH, a property development and global finance company, Anshoo Sethi boasts more than a decade of experience in the industry. He grew up with the family company and has since leveraged this early experience to expand and improve the real estate and hotel enterprise. In his leadership role, Anshoo has repositioned the company, switching from strictly general contracting construction to equity investments and asset management. Mr. Sethi plans to continue his innovations at UPGROWTH as the company pursues environmentally sustainable initiatives.
Anshoo Sethi has developed numerous complex real estate and finance projects spanning millions of square feet of commercial, health care, education, retail, residential, and hotel properties. Throughout his career, Mr. Sethi has innovated, creating new strategies throughout the real estate development cycle to increase his company's profitability, efficiency, and scope.
In addition to extensive property developments in the U.S., Anshoo Sethi invests in education in India. He has sponsored universities with faculty members who teach a wide range of subjects, including business, education, computer administration, and medicine.
Mr. Sethi grew up in Chicago and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he studied finance and marketing, with an emphasis on international business. Mr. Sethi has also completed a variety of postgraduate professional development programs to understand market demand in various sectors, mixed-use projects, financial structuring, architecture, hotels, and green development. Anshoo Sethi completed the requirements to become a Certified Hotel Administrator, a Certified Lodging Owner, and a Certified Hospitality Technology Professional. He is currently working to earn his LEED professional accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Mr. Sethi belongs to a number of organizations in domestic and global finance, sustainability, real estate, and renewable energy. He has also served on the boards of several nonprofits, social programs, and educational institutions.
Sethi's work towards creating Green Future:
Anshoo's works toward creating a greener future. As the CEO of contracting firm UPGROWTH, the Chicago resident applies nearly 15 years of property development and finance expertise to spearheading large-scale commercial construction projects, many of them hotels and resorts. In his executive capacity, Anshoo Sethi strives to fuse sustainable innovation and design into each of his company's undertakings.
Since joining the family business, Anshoo Sethi has steered UPGROWTH in a new direction, from strictly a construction company to a firm with interests in equity investing and asset managing, as well. He particularly shines in the property development business, possessing strong expertise in the acquisition, financing, and improvement of homes, stores, hospitals, schools, and hospitality complexes. Under Anshoo Sethi, UPGROWTH has witnessed significant growth in its client base and service provisions, largely because of the CEO's focus on pioneering designs, environmental consciousness, and unsurpassed service.
To date, Anshoo Sethi and UPGROWTH have taken on dozens of corporate projects, including the construction of hotels for all the major hotel brands. In each of these projects and others, Anshoo Sethi and his team at UPGROWTH implemented strict green practices, including the recycling and reuse of 75 percent of debris on average, and building to the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards wherever possible.
Other sustainable initiatives undertaken by Anshoo Sethi and his colleagues at UPGROWTH include the use of 40 percent recycled-content office supplies, the implementation of a large-scale companywide recycling program, and the diversion of outdated or unneeded electronics to e-recycling firms. Through these and other practices, Anshoo Sethi seeks to set a corporate example on the importance of sustainable efforts in the business world.