Thomas Cook Board of Directors

Mr. Mahesh Iyer A Thomas Cook veteran of 23 years, Mr. Mahesh Iyer is the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer of Thomas Cook (India) Ltd. He has held multiple roles in the Company including that of Head of Foreign Exchange and Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) prior to his appointment as Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Iyer has direct responsibility for the company’s P&L, day to day operations of the company, strategic planning, nurturing and building key relationships, as well as building a sustainable growth oriented organization that maximizes value for all its stakeholders.

He holds a Masters degree in Marketing Management from JBIMS and has successfully completed a Business Management degree from IIM-Calcutta.

Mr. Mahesh Iyer joined the Board of Thomas Cook (India) Ltd. with effect from 29th May, 2018.

Mr. Chandran Ratnaswami is a Managing Director of Hamblin Watsa Investment Counsel Limited, a wholly-owned investment management company of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited. Hamblin Watsa provides discretionary investment management to all of the insurance and reinsurance subsidiaries of Fairfax and currently manages approximately $ 28 Billion of assets.

At Hamblin Watsa, he is responsible for all Fairfax and subsidiary investments in Asia. He is also the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Fairfax India Holdings Corporation, a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Mr. Ratnaswami serves on the Boards of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited, Fairbridge Capital Private Limited, and IIFL Holdings Limited (formerly India Infoline Limited), Quess Corp Limited (Formerly known as IKYA Human Capital Solutions Limited), First Capital Insurance Limited in Singapore, Thai Reinsurance Public Company Limited in Thailand, Union Assurance General Limited in Sri Lanka and Zoomer Media Limited in Canada.

Mrs. Kishori Udeshi has an M.A. Degree in Economics from Bombay University. She moved on to a professional career in central banking and became the first woman to be appointed as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

She was the first Executive Director of the RBI to be nominated on the Board of State Bank of India. As Deputy Governor, one of her portfolios was the regulation and supervision of the banking and non-banking sector. She represented the RBI on the Core Principles Liaison Group and the Core Principles Working Group on Capital, of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, set up by the Bank for International Settlements, Switzerland. As Deputy Governor she was on the Board of SEBI, NABARD, Exim Bank and was the Chairman of Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran (Pvt.) Ltd., Bangalore as also Chairman of the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation.

Mr. Pravir Vohra is a postgraduate in Economics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi and a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. He has worked for over 23 years with State Bank of India at a number of senior positions both in India and abroad. His last assignment, before he took voluntary retirement, in 1999 was as head of the Bank’s Forex Division at New Delhi. He served a brief stint in the Corporate Banking group of Times Bank Ltd before moving to the ICICI Bank group where he headed the Technology function for many years. He was also additionally responsible for facilities management, infrastructure and administration including the roll out of new branches and ATMs.

Mr. Vohra has served on numerous technology & functional committees set up by organizations such as the CBDT, UIDAI, IBA and the RBI. He has also served as a nominee director on the boards of Loyalty Solutions & Research Pvt Ltd, ICICI Securities Ltd, Firstsource Solutions Ltd and as an independent director on MCX India Ltd.

Mr. Nilesh Vikamsey is a Senior Partner at M/s Khimji Kunverji & Co., a 80 year old Chartered Accountants firm and member firm of HLB International, which is a leading network of independent professional accounting firms and business advisers with member firms well-established locally and mostly ranked among the top 12 nationally.

Mr. Vikamsey is 65th President of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI)- the second largest professional body of Chartered Accountants in the world.

Mr. Vikamsey is Chairman of Federal Bank Limited, also on the Board of a number of companies like SBI Life Insurance Company Limited, IIFL Holdings Limited, Navneet Education Limited, PNB Housing Finance Limited, IIFL Wealth Management Limited, SOTC Travel Services Private Limited, NSEIT Limited, Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) India, Indian Institute of Insolvency Professionals of ICAI, ICAI Accounting Research Foundation and others.

Mr. Sunil Mathur is a qualified Chartered Accountant. He was the Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) the largest life insurance company in India from August 2002 to October 2004. His tenure coincided with the opening up of the insurance sector which saw the entry of twelve companies with strong domestic brand joining up with leading international players. Despite intense competition LIC continued to be a dominant player in the market. This period was also marked by softening of the interest rates which necessitated the withdrawal of some of the popular high yield products and the introduction of new schemes. The equity portfolio was leveraged through secondary market operations and swapping of debt to book profit and give a fair return to the policyholders and also for better asset liability matching.

Mr. Maheshwari has been the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fairbridge since May 2018 and was appointed as a member of the Board on September 27, 2018. Previously, Mr. Maheshwari was Vice President at Fairbridge and has been working at Fairbridge since July 2011. Prior to joining Fairbridge, Mr. Maheshwari worked with KPMG in India for 5 years in their audit and accounting advisory functions. Mr. Maheshwari specializes in Indian GAAP, U.S. GAAP and IFRS accounting standards. Mr. Maheshwari serves on the board of directors of many of Fairfax Group’s portfolio companies in India. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant, has completed the Post Graduate Programme in Management from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and holds a Bachelors of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai. Mr. Maheshwari is a resident of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.