The Ignite Team

Firecircle Ignite Mentor

Vivek Sharma

Vivek joined the Firecircle team in January 2023 and is one of our fabulous business mentors. Vivek is a global hospitality & tourism business professional with a broad-based senior level experience in various business verticals operating in complex environments across a wide range of global markets.

With more than 30 years of experience in the global tourism & hospitality industry he has held progressively senior executive roles marked by a chronicle of success, driving benchmark-setting growth & expansion for hospitality & service focused organizations.

His key strengths lie in effective & strategic business management through building and delivering against a strategy and vision, leading organizations through change and restructuring, transforming teams that can establish culture and business values that are rewarding for guests, associates, and various other key stakeholders & partners.

Vivek is dynamic leader with the capacity to set aggressive targets through personal involvement with strategy, deployment, community engagement and leading by influencing sector wide collaboration.

Vivek is a graduate of the Institute of Hotel Management, India and he recently graduated from the Directors Education Program from the Rotoman School of Business on board governance.

Vivek is an avid travel enthusiast having lived and worked in 8 countries, travelled to 30 more and lived and worked coast to coast to coast in Canada. Vivek has a passion for golf and skiing (full disclosure that he is not good at either), enjoys fine food and wine and socializing with friends and family