In a career spanning 28 years, all with the Taj Group, Ajoy Misra has worked in various departments of Taj Hotels from Sales and Marketing to Operations. He joined the Taj in 1980 in the Corporate Sales and Marketing Department through Tata Administrative Services. He has a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from BITS, Pilani and went on to do a Masters Degree in Business Administration in 1980, from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University. He also completed the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School in 2008. Before Ajoy took over the responsibility of heading sales & marketing for the Taj group, from 1992 –97, he was the General Manager of Taj President Hotel in Mumbai and for a year in 1997-1998 was in Sri Lanka as Area Director – Sri Lanka and Maldives and General Manager of the Taj Samudra Hotel in Colombo.

Ajoy is on the Board of Directors of various Group Companies viz; Oriental Hotels Limited, Piem Hotels Limited, Taj Karnataka Hotels and Resorts Limited, Taj Madras Flight Kitchen Private Limited, Northern India Hotels Limited, Roots Corporation Limited, Piem International (H.K.) Limited, Taj GVK Hotels and Resorts Limited and Mount Everest Mineral Water Limited.

He also represents Taj in various industry bodies in the area of Tourism and Hospitality such as: The World Travel and Tourism Council, India Initiative (WTTC), World Tourism Organization (WTO), Hotel Association of India (HAI), Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).