Rattan ‘Ray’ Gupta is the Chairman, C.E.O. and Founder of Sunray Group – which is one of Canada’s fastest growing hospitality and development companies. Ray has gone builds on his natural business acumen, and entrepreneurial instincts to grow from modest business beginnings to leading and directing a multi faceted organization. Ray has made a career out of conducting stringent market studies and finding under-utilized, well located assets with upside opportunity. This forward-thinking approach and working closely with some of the hotel industry’s top brands and professionals has allowed him to identify and profit from often overlooked opportunities – “We were not purchasing hotels based on the current yield or profitability; these were properties operating at huge losses and with our strategic approach, we were able to turn them around, either by repositioning/rebranding them or by renovating. When most tell us ‘it cannot be done’, we know we are on the right track.”

Ray’s keen business and interpersonal skills have enabled him to attract a core set of highly motivated and hugely experienced executive team members to assist him in driving the company forward and to ensure the continued and sustained growth of the company far into the future. As a further endorsement of his tremendous success, Ray was personally awarded with the title of “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Indo-Canadian Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) in 2017. As an individual, Ray prides himself in going above and beyond the accepted standards of the business landscape within which he operates. Sunray was awarded the Pinnacle “Regional Company of the Year” in 2016 and has built and maintained exceptional relationships with the all the major brands in the hospitality industry such as Marriott, Hilton, Best Western, IHG and Choice. Ray is also personally committed to supporting causes and foundations that make a difference to his employees and communities.