Thomas Cook inducts four senior execs

Mumbai: After two high-profile acquisitions last year, travel and forex major Thomas Cook (TCIL) is now consolidating its business by bringing four senior-level executives into its fold.
The top-level appointments include Vinayak Purohit, who will take over as executive director, finance. Coming from a prominent media house, Mr Vinayak will take over from Robin Banerjee who had quit the company late last year. The company is also set to consolidate its travel business, which includes outbound, inbound and corporate segments, under new head Nalini Udai Gupta.
Ms Gupta comes from South African Airways and was earlier with Air-India as the regional head for the Indian subcontinent and South Asia.
Industry sources added that Rajeev Kale will join TCIL and handle the company’s emerging incentive business in India. Mr Kale comes from TCIL’s industry peer, Cox & Kings.
Vijay Sethi will take over as the head of the service quality & customer care department. Mr Sethi moves in from Jet Airways.
The latest executive appointments are expected to come into effect from the end of this month or the beginning of May, said sources.
09/04/07 Prince Mathews Thomas/Economic Times

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