About Us

Mr. Samarjitsinh Gaekwad is the 17 th descendant of the Royal Family of Baroda. His initial schooling was at the prestigious Doon School in Dehradun and thereafter did his graduation in commerce from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda majoring marketing.

Samarjitsinh Gaekwad has been managing his inherited estate imaginatively credited with building and operating the first private golf course in Gujarat and which is now a full fledged golf & country club with a membership of 800.

Gaekwar Services Ltd. (GSL) was floated in 1995/96 to capture opportunities that all his ancestral properties may offer across Baroda and Mumbai. The club is one of the verticals operating under GSL. The other vertical under GSL is the LVP Banquets and Conventions (LVPBC) which commenced operations in 2013. LVPBC is now an established player in the hospitality sector of Baroda employing more than 100 people. Despite weak economic scenario the business has been receiving great response by the local corporate and cliental.

The 3 rd vertical under GSL is operating the palace tour for visitors into Baroda. The palace tour was one of the first time in the country to have an audio guide. The tour is received well with the annual footfalls now over one lac.

In addition, Mr. Samarjitsinh Gaekwad has developed his Mumbai property in 2002- 2003 measuring 50,000 sq. ft. into retail cum residential building. The building was constructed to lease out the retail and also the residential flats. The building continues to be owned by Millenium Estates Pvt. Ltd. (MEPL) (CIN No.: U7010MH2000PTC124173). Post this project Mr. Samarjitsinh Gaekwad has floated a company Deegee Pvt. Ltd. (CIN No.: U72100MH2002PTC137254) along with other associates to develop and lease a property in MIDC, Andheri, Mumbai. Post Mr. Samarjitsinh Gaekwad is the Chairman-Director of this company. Post acquisition, the company leased this property for 9 years to a Swiss Multinational. After this company located the premises, DG has developed this into a 140,000 SBU building to be leased out to IT firms. The building is 10 storey and has a dedicated tower for parking of 220 cars. Currently building has been leased out to various companies floor wise.

Mr. Ruhshad Cama comes from a leading family in Baroda, is a Commerce Graduate majoring in Accounts from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Post his graduation, he worked in Abu Dhabi for a number of years in various capacities as outlined below.

Mr. Cama worked in a company manufacturing construction products and was responsible for business development of the whole profile of the company products like Fibre glass lining, Fibre glass manhole liners, potable Panel Tanks etc.

Mr. Cama returned to Baroda and joined the Royal family management. He is a Trustee on various trusts run by the royal family and is actively involved with Parsi Panchayat affairs of Baroda.

On the business front, Mr. Cama is a wholetime director of Gaekwar Services Ltd. and actively manages the Banquet & Club operations of the company. Mr. Cama will be a stake holder by way of sweat equity in this development project.

Mr. Nitin Pujari is a Commerce Graduate majoring in Accounts from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

After his graduation, he worked with Tara Consultancy Services Baroda, It was a Project of Midday Meal Scheme under The Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. He was working as a Sr Research Officer to collect data from Government offices of Baroda, Gandhinagar & Rajkot district. He was also looking Accounting work of the Company.

Mr. Pujari Joined Gaekwad Group in 1995 as an Accountant. As he was a hardworking, having positive attitude, decision making skill and communication capability, he was promoted for the Managerial responsibilities from the year 2005. He has got potential to work independently on financial, investments and administrative level. He is always keen to take responsibility of any type of work, especially financial and investments accounting, reporting and analysis on any institutional fund management portfolio and prepares necessary statements.

Mr. Pujari is a whole time director of Gaekwar Services Ltd. From 2017 and actively manage Finance, Administrative & HR division of the Palace Unit, Gaekwad Baroda Golf Club Unit & LVP Banquet Unit.

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MR. Shivraj Khachar comes from the Jasdan Royal Family, is a Commerce Graduate from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He initially worked at the LVP Banquets and Conventions.

Mr. Khachar worked as the Project Co-Ordinator for Maxfly Properties for a few months. Currently, he looks after the Gaekwad Baroda Golf Club which is also a unit of the Gaekwar Enterprise Pvt Ltd.