From Robert Velarde: I am FIRED UP Preparing for 3-20-13 Sacramento's Social Media Bash.
I am pictured with Kumar Sharma, who came to the United States from India 24 years ago with $42 and an agricultural worker's visa.
Sharma, 53, found one of his first American jobs in the vineyards of Napa. He worked his way up through Sacramento mini-marts, liquor stores and food markets, first as a clerk, then as an owner. His hotel empire now includes seven properties.
He's turned the former Radisson on Highway 160 into a gathering place for many of the region's 50,000 Indo Americans, whose population has more than doubled in the past decade.
The hotel – which Sharma initially had renamed the Woodlake Hotel – officially became the Red Lion Hotel Woodlake Conference Center Sacramento last week. Sharma's Shri Vinayaka Hotel Inc. also announced the purchase of the Red Lion Hotel (Now The Clarion Hotel) near Arden Fair mall for $9 million.
Note: Kumar is the Owner of The Clarion Hotel Arden Mall Sacramento, Where the Sacramento Social Media Bash Event is held.
See https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cgu7umguprqagajq071adolfqlg
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/09/4801444/indian-american-entrepreneur-worked.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy
— at Clarion Hotel and Conference Center at Arden Mall.Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/
