Sanjay Rama
Principal & President, Sarona Holdings
Columbus, IN 47201
Phone (646) 741-9400
Property Types
Hospitality
Markets
New York City, Orlando, San Francisco, South Florida, North Bay/Santa Rosa, South Bay/San Jose, Greenville/Spartanburg, Santa Cruz/Watsonville
Bio
At EHP, Sanjay focuses on underwriting, finance, acquisitions/dispositions, and stewards our executive team at Everwood Hospitality, our hotel operations arm. Sanjay is also the co-founder of Sarona Holdings, which represents a group of companies founded by the Rama brothers. Prior to Sarona, Sanjay spent six years at JHM Hotels, his family’s company which owned and operated over 40 national hotels. At JHM, he underwrote hotel acquisition opportunities, disposed of non-strategic assets, and restructured over 50% of the portfolio. Sanjay began his career as an associate in the transaction real estate division of Ernst & Young’s Manhattan office where he performed feasibility studies, prepared annual real estate fund reports, and assessed bankruptcy risk for clients. Sanjay holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Babson College where he majored in accounting and minored in entrepreneurship and statistics. He is also a CPA (inactive) licensed in the state of Virginia and the recipient of the Alison Carol Award for Global Leadership.
