Marketing & Client Services
for Calgary brands.
I’m Akshit Mehta — a Calgary-based marketing and client services lead with seven years of work for hospitality, lifestyle and premium consumer brands. I help founders, operators and in-house teams across Calgary and Alberta take a brand from positioning brief to launch night without losing the thread between strategy, story and the room.
Where I do my best work.
Hospitality
Restaurants · Hotels · Lounges · Bars
Lifestyle
Fashion · Beauty · Editorial · Retail
Premium Consumer
F&B · Wellness · Apparel · Specialty
Calgary is full of operators who don’t fit into a generic agency template — boutique hotels, neighborhood restaurants, fashion labels building their first national push, founder-led wellness brands. The work I’m proudest of sits in those rooms.
What you’d hire me to do.
Brand Stewardship
Owning a Calgary or Alberta brand from positioning brief through guidelines, voice and rollout — for founders who want a marketing partner, not a vendor.
Campaign Strategy
Launch plans, seasonal campaigns and always-on calendars for restaurants, hotels, fashion labels and consumer studios across Calgary and Western Canada.
Client Servicing
Account leadership for hospitality and lifestyle clients — briefs in, decks out, eight workstreams in motion. Calgary-based, set up to work in MDT.
Content & Social
Editorial-led social systems, photo direction and the production calendar that ships them — for premium consumer brands looking to read like a magazine, not a feed.
On-Property Activation
Restaurants, hotels and venues need marketing that lives in the room. Menus, wayfinding, themed nights and the launch night itself — relevant for Calgary hospitality operators.
Six recent case studies.
The Claridges
Garden Brunch program and Anglo-Indian Fest activation for a heritage Delhi hotel — audience strategy, photography direction and the social system that ran the season.
AER Dubai
Always-on calendar marketing for a Dubai lounge — themed weekly nights, cocktail and kitchen films and the launch program that named AER as a top nightlife destination in the city.
WE Qutub
Always-on social and themed-events marketing for a Delhi club and lounge — built to put a trendy, upscale crowd in the room on the slow nights as well as the loud ones.
Bronx Brewery
Always-on social and themed-events marketing for a Delhi brewery and bar — weekly nights, a value-led food menu and the post-work hospitality programming that built a regular crowd.
Cocoyaya UAE
UAE adaptation of a premium shisha brand — visual programming, regional positioning and a social calendar built for a luxury-leaning audience that values both heritage and modern shisha culture.
Shisha Stories
Brand programming and product photography for a Delhi-based shisha and lifestyle label — hero blends, packaging-led social tiles and a studio shoot that fed the catalog.
Got a Calgary brief?
I’m taking on hospitality, lifestyle and premium consumer engagements in Calgary and across Alberta. Permanent roles, contract account work and short-form freelance all welcome.
Calgary, AB · +1 519 575 5913 · LinkedIn ↗