Our Team
In K11 every team member is handpicked and assigned individual goals based on their area of expertise. Their role is then evaluated against specific criteria. This helps them in delivering seamless accountability, and consistent performance. Kaizzad Capadia, Founder & Director Devaki Khimji, Founder & Director
Mayur Sabnis, Executive Director Shivani Singh, Division Head Operations
Sunil Kotian, Division Head Fitness Academy Kamlesh Asawale, Division Head Training
Nikhil Ashtewale, Sr. Fitness Consultant Abhijit Kakkad, Sr. Fitness Consultant
Swarada Tipnis, Division Head Nutrition
A master in form technique of all resistance exercises, Rupesh has the responsibility of handling the entire practicals of the K11 Personal Trainer course. It is his guidance that allows a student to pass the stringent K11 Practical exams. He is known for his infinite pateince attention to detail while teaching exercise form technique. He truly does justice to his designation of Master Trainer. |
Kaizzad has changed the face of the fitness industry by pioneering the advent of resistance training nationwide. The last 20 years has seen him evolve from a national level bodybuilder in 1987 to become the leading authority on the science of resistance training, functional strength & anti-aging. He exploded back on the bodybuilding stage by winning the 2005 Mr. Bombay title & Gold medals in the 2006 & 2008 Mr. Maharashtra – reinforcing the scientific principles he teaches. Kaizzad lectures on strength training at our own fitness academy & is considered as the best tutor for fitness trainers in the industry. All the scientific norms for training & nutrition in all K11 owned & managed fitness clubs/gyms are laid down by him. Through innumerable seminars he keeps trying to educate members, corporate clients, fitness enthusiasts about the scientific approach to fitness.
Devaki combines her passion for fitness with a keen business sense, which has made her one of the most successful entrepreneur in the fitness industry. She is solely responsible for the smooth functioning of all K11 projects & has pioneered many of the fitness club/gym management systems and ensured their successful implementation. An authority on the functioning of fitness clubs, she has been responsible for the great financial success of K11 managed & owned fitness clubs/gyms. K11 owes a large part of its smooth operations to the well thought out communications manager & club management softwares that were developed under her direction. She also lectures at the K11 Fitness academy on the subject of How to build a successful career in fitness. K11 has grown from a band of 11 people to a company with almost 400 employees due to her vision & management abilities.
Kalyani has been the fire that burns behind the scenes at K11 since the very beginning. Kalyani is a certified trekking instructor, a former nationally ranked competitive rock climber, Kabbadi player and an accomplished strength training coach. Her excellent business development and leadership skills ensure perfection in revenue producing products and packages, team development & sales by efficiently prioritizing and appropriately planning. Kalyani, always leads by example, maintaining the highest level of professionalism and integrity while being efficient and effective in service to club members, staff members & club owners. She takes great pride in problem solving, planning and program profitability. She strives to continually improve the member experience and encourages multi-level collaboration in the process.
Mayur exudes his passion about fitness no matter where he is. He has been with K11 from the very beginning starting off his career as a trainer. His great thirst for knowledge & expertise in his chosen field has led him to amass a vast understanding and background in biomechanics and kinesiology. His experience in the fitness industry spans over ten years where he has specialized in fitness for seniors, individuals with disabilities and athletes. Mayur has gained special recognition due to his outstanding involvement and development of fitness programs for everyone. Mayur has also contributed to the development of the K11 fitness course syllabus. As an Executive Director who oversees health and fitness programming & service provided in the gyms. It was Mayur’s belief that language should not be a barrier in learning of Fitness sciences. Due to his contributions K11 is proud to have the only Fitness Academy in the country offering courses in vernacular mediums.
Shivani has a degree in hotel management and experience in operations & administration. She is always finding ways of helping our clubs save money and putting their budgets to the best use possible by working on getting the “The bang for the buck”. Her integrity and efficiency makes working with her a sheer pleasure. Shivani is dedicated, efficient and highly organized. She has a NO NONSENSE approach and expects the same from all those who work under her. We have the best vendors & dealers servicing us at the best prices due to her diligence.
Sunil has been our problem solver or disaster management expert. His unique administrative abilities & leadership qualities allow us to use him in a variety of different positions. He is very well versed with all our management systems & is our obvious choice for setting up systems during the start-up phase of any new project that we take up. Whenever there has been an issue of a particular unit not performing well, Sunil has been sent in to resolve the problems & bring back the unit into a smooth functioning order. Sunil’s latest assignment is a real tough one. But he manages it with effortless ease. He looks into the admin, sales & scheduling of all our Fitness Academies.
Kamlesh was a K11 course topper. A former Cricket player, he soon became obsessed with fitness sciences & expanded his knowledge base way beyond the K11 syllabus.Within a short span, kamlesh is now capable of handling an entire personal trainer course in various languages. He has been an inspiration to all the students by transforming his once under weight body into a lean athletic one. He leads by example & is super strict in his adherence to his exercise & diet regime. He is an example of the success of the scientific systems that he preaches in his lectures. He looks into the training of newly recruited staff & ensures the updation of existing fitness staff through monthly workshops. Kamlesh has contributed to the development of fitness programming norms stated in the K11 Programmers manual.
We know we are the best but it is jui who has the challenging task to make us visible and inform the world about K11’s excellence. She plans & executes the marketing strategies for all K11 projects. In a short span she has got a total hold over all aspects of marketing, outdoor publicity (Hoardings, Banners), in house publicity through posters, news paper advertising, emailers, radio spots, telemarketing & text messaging. From the creative’s to the execution, to the pricing of printing, ad spots, etc.she handles it all.
Nikhil is known as the military man of K11 for his beyond reproach work ethic & discipline. He has held many posts in K11 & always delivered 100%. He started his career as a fitness trainer, then Manager, to Sr. Fitness councilor & then was instrumental in successfully setting up & establishing our project in Nashik in the capacity of Club General Manager. Though his job profile was administration related for a long time, being first & foremost a fitness professional, he started missing being in touch with his fitness roots. Hence now has been reassigned to the prestigious post of Sr. Fitness Councilor. He goes to all K11 gyms & meets members by appointment to resolve all their doubts about training. Once a member has met Nikhil, you can be sure that the member will go back with all his queries answered. He also shares the responsibility of Master Trainer & lecturer at our Fitness Academies.
Abhijeet started off as a fitness trainer & became K11 Academies first Master Trainer. From there he grew to be a fitness manager & then now a Sr. Fitness Councilor for all K11 owned & managed gyms. He is also a lecturer at the K11 Fitness Academy & handles the sensitive lecture of how to prepare for the tough K11 oral exams. He is also a K11 Academy examiner & is in charge of taking the PT course Practical & oral exams.
Swarada is the administrative head of the Nutrition department. She handles recruitment of dietitians for all K11 projects. Since Nutrition is as essential for K11 as exercise is, K11 emphasizes the role of the nutritionist as much as the trainers. Swarada keeps a watch over all the diets prescribed by K11 dietitians through our internal communications software. Holds monthly workshops to update the dieticians on their knowledge base. She is in charge of evaluating the performance to decide on their increments & performance. 
