Founder of Akros Design Studio, Swapna Bhatkar was passionate about art since childhood and have won many prizes in painting and design competition at school and college level. She decided to pursue her career in Architecture and completed her Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1997 from Mumbai University.    
 

In her professional career of 12 yrs she had great opportunity to work with some of the renowned architect like Pheroz Kudianwala, P. G. Patki and Prakash Mankar and have acquired designing and detailing expertise in hospitality and healthcare industry. Some of the projects in hospitality include Hyatt Regency at Kathmandu, Grand Maratha Sheraton at Mumbai, Country Inn & Suites at Jaipur, Radha Park Inn at Chennai, Hotel Golkonda at Hyderabad, VVT Hotels at Chennai and Sheesh Mahal, restaurant at Bangalore. Health care projects include Asian Heart Institute, Saifee Hospital in Mumbai and 10 beds ICCU at Ratnagiri. To explore her potential in other sectors she has also design projects like Timex showroom, studios for STAR and Pinch Harmonics and an Architect’s office in Bangalore.
 

With her personal time which she shares with her husband and a cute son Kavin; Swapna is a Bharatnatyam dancer, likes to travel, love photography, watches theatre and reads fiction novels.