Mr. Brijesh Modi
Organization: Thomas Cook (India) Limited
Designation: President & Chief Financial Officer
A CFO with a vision of Delighting the Customer, consistently raising the bar for superlative deliverance, Brijesh leads by example.
Mr Brijesh Modi is a Chartered Accountant of batch 1998 and has completed a General Management Programme from IIM Calcutta. He brings 24 years of diverse experience in the avenues of Strategy, Business Partnering, Commercial, Accounting, Audit, Controlling, Taxation, Treasury and Administration.
As the CFO, Brijesh has successfully partnered with the Managing Director and CEO in the turnaround of the company. He has revamped finance & administration functions and pioneered culture and perception changes, brought about more focus on the vision and values of the Organisations he has worked with.
During Covid 19, Travel and Tourism was one of the worst affected sectors. Brijesh, as the CFO of the Company played a pivotal role in cost rationalisation, managing the liquidity, relationship with stakeholders and driving performance which was successfully achieved.
Brijesh strongly believes in Business Partnering which strengthened the ties between the finance and commercial teams that enabled the company to improve its bottom-line. Controlling was strengthened. Talent management completed and brought speed in execution. Brijesh has been instrumental in formalising a GRC unit in the company. He was identified as a SPOC to manage the complex sale of the company to the new shareholder and thereafter led the process of shareholder change from the finance and compliance purview. Brijesh led the corporate restructuring initiatives such as hive-off of a noncore unit from the company and buyback of shares leading to value maximisation. Exhibited strong communication, negotiation, perseverance, conflict management, analytical & people management skills which gave tangible benefits to the company. Worked with loss making to profit making companies, Foreign MNC (UK & Swiss) to Indian MNC, listed to private limited companies, B2B to B2C business models, strategic shareholder to private equity, shared service set-up, automobile to tourism to foreign exchange industries. Brijesh has diverse experience, both at a divisional level as well as corporate level. He works directly with the Chairman of the Board and the Audit Committee Chairman. He manages Board and Audit Committee meetings. His previous experience has entailed working at an international level with foreign bosses and colleagues and has managed an ex-pat Swiss subordinate. For his exemplary performance, Brijesh was awarded as one of Top 100 “Most Influential CFOs” in India, by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), 2015. He has been the recipient of Roll of Honour award as also the Fellowship Award for Excellence, twice from his Organisations.
Brijesh’s passion to excel, his ability to turn every challenge into an opportunity, his vision and strategic direction, sets him apart.
