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“ holiday planning app-Ithaka- has projects, airports and commercial)
helped give Thomas Cook insights
and the Visa & Passport
and opportunities into India’s
vertical. Mahesh’s role currently
vibrant millennial segment.
encompasses both overall strategic
Our strategy
to day enterprise level management
Entertainment Imaging (DEI)-
at the Thomas Our latest acquisition- Digiphoto planning, as well as hands on, day
- to drive targeted business
provides us an opportunity to be
Cook India part of a unique offering, adjacent objectives for Thomas Cook (India)
Limited. His role assumes direct
to our core business portfolio
Group has and add value led by its PAT and responsibility for the Company’s
business results across its various
free cash accretive position. The
been focussed business has consistent GOP business verticals, management
of key relationships, as well
Margin- 23% in 2014; 24%
on holidays- in 2018. Thus DEI offers us as, in building a sustainable
growth oriented organisation
tours and the increasing business growth whilst that maximises value for all its
generating healthy PAT and free
stakeholders. Besides his overall
end-to-end cash flow. corporate leadership role, Mahesh
also directly manages the Foreign
experience and Vision statement: We go further to Exchange business across India,
make dreams come true
Mauritius and Sri Lanka. He holds
this has played Torchbearer of Thomas Cook a Master’s degree in Marketing
a key role in our Mr. Mahesh Iyer is the Executive Management from JBIMS and has
successfully completed a Business
success story Director & Chief Executive Management degree from IIM-
Calcutta.
Officer, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.
“ In his 22 year journey from Overcoming Challenges
Management Trainee to Executive
Travel today has become largely a
Director & Chief Executive
commoditised business and given
Officer, Mr. Iyer has contributed
significantly to the Company’s
ticketing agents are struggling to
Foreign Exchange business (across the era of zero air commission,
functions of operations, products, survive. Our strategy at the Thomas
