DIRECTORS AND TEAM

The TIC board has five directors, all professionals, including two whole-time directors:

Kiron Kasbekar, managing director, has worked in the publishing, database services and related businesses for the past 28 years. A well-known writer on business and management issues, his previous positions include: Editor of The Economic Times, Bombay, Business Editor of The Times of India, and Managing Editor of Business India magazine - all of them leaders in their segments. 

Kiron also has over two decades of experience in the business database business and in the managing of business enterprises (including marketing and finance). He has also been directly involved in media design and art. His experience in software development goes back to 1989.

Anjali Mathur, director and chief operating officer, has been in senior positions in journalism, including as Resident Editor of The Sunday Observer and Executive Editor of Gentleman magazine. She was a delegate to the Special Session on Women of the United Nations General Assembly in 2000, and is a founder member of the Network of Women in Media (India), an association of women journalists from across the country.  

Sushil Khanna, director, is a fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), and professor at IIM-C. He specialises in strategic management issues and has done consulting for large corporations besides teaching at IIM-C for over three decades, after a stint at Citibank.

S. Viswanathan, director, is a chartered accountant and MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has worked with leading organizations, such as Price Waterhouse, World Bank and with groups such as TVS, RPG, Chandarias and Manipal Group, and with consulting firms. He has over 25 years of experience in the areas of corporate and strategic planning, and finance.

Rajesh Thakur, director, is an electronics engineer who has worked in the US and India, and is a pioneer in the Internet business, having begun offering Internet hosting services from the US since 1994. A co-founder of Tracomm Networks Ltd, he heads the Indian operations of the company, which runs a data centre in Michigan, USA.

Team: The TIC team has 50 people employed full-time. The team has writers and editors, designers, managers and software engineers in four cities in India. In addition, TIC has a network of external writers and editors in these four cities and in several others.

The backgrounds of TIC’s team members include work with publications and companies such as Business India, Business World, The Times of India, India Today, Navhind Times, United News of India, Commerce Research Bureau, Intel, Raymond, Gharda Chemicals, the National Insurance Company, and the National Film Development Corporation.

Some of TIC’s software engineers and designers have also been involved with teaching and training in their respective areas.