By Becky Bowers, Times Staff Writer
Friday, January 7, 2011
Prem Shah is executive director of Bristol Court. The assisted living facility is the largest Pinellas site for Alzheimer’s and other memory-loss patients.
ST. PETERSBURG — Prem Shah, 26, juggles two BlackBerrys at his new desk in an unfinished office. He's been here every morning for more than six months, and now it's just weeks away: his own piece of the family business.
His dad's the CEO, his mom corporate treasurer, his brother president.
But what do you do when the family business is hotels — and you always wanted to go into medicine?
You figure out how to welcome a different kind of guest.
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The Shah family business started in the late '70s with a 60-room Best Western in eastern Ohio. Raxit Shah and his wife, Ketki, moved from Toronto to build the American dream. They saved ...
