VEERASAMY Banoomatee
Mrs Banoomatee Veerasamy is Acting Managing Director of
The State Investment Corporation Ltd (SIC), the investment
arm of the Government of Mauritius. She has 30 years’
experience as Director on a number of Boards where
Government holds a stake. She has a strong background
in strategic investment, having managed the SIC’s portfolio
of wholly and partly owned Government businesses. She is
the Executive Director of Prime Partners Ltd, a fully owned
subsidiary of the SIC, serving as Corporate Secretary to
subsidiaries/associates of SIC and other companies. A
qualified stockbroker, Mrs Veerasamy has managed Prime
Securities Ltd and has assisted in the inception of the
Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM), of which she was also
a member. A Fellow of the ICSA, Mrs. Veerasamy also holds
a Masters’ degree in law from the University of London.
She was appointed to the Board on March 09, 2015.
MUNGROO Bissoon, G.O.S.K.
Mr Mungroo, G.O.S.K. is the President of the Association
of Hotels de Charme de l’ile Maurice, President of the
Rashitriya Sanatan Dharma Mandir Sangathan and
the Chairman and Managing Director of Manisa Hotel
(Mauritius) and Le Flamboyant Hotel. He is the Managing
Director of Mungroo & Sons Ltd (Transport), Gitanjali Co
Ltd (Transport), Office Clean and DHR Training, the Director
of ALTEO Milling Company and Member of the School
Management Committee, MITD Ecole Hôtelière Sir Gaëtan
Duval. He was appointed to the Board on April 10, 2015.
SALEMOHAMED Muhammad Yoosuf
Mr Muhammad Yoosuf Salemohamed started his career in
a chartered accountants firm where he obtained training in
Accounting and Auditing. He joined a vertically integrated
textile manufacturing Company as accountant in 1975
and ended his career there as General Manager. He has
been associated in various textile activities since 1975 to
date. He is a past president of the Mauritius Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, past Chairman of the Mauritius
College of the Air, past president of the MEFPA. He has
also been a director of the Development Bank of Mauritius,
a member of the Petroleum Pricing Committee and an
adviser to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. He is
presently the Chairman of Enterprise Mauritius and a Board
member of the Islamic Cultural Centre Trust Fund Board.
He was appointed to the Board on July 30, 2015.
LOHANI Ashwani
Mr Ashwani Lohani is presently the Chairman and Managing
Director of Air India. He earlier worked as the Managing
Director and Commissioner Tourism, Government of
Madhya Pradesh, CAO/IROAF, CME Northern Railway, DRM
Delhi, Director of National Rail Museum, New Delhi, Director
in the Ministry of Tourism Government of India, Chairman
and Managing Director of India Tourism Development
Corporation and other important assignments in railways.
He is a life member of the Institute of Rolling Stock
Engineers and the Museums Association of India and
the Founder cum Working President of the Indian Steam
Railway Society. He has written over a hundred articles
and columns on a variety of subjects in magazines and
newspapers of national repute. He was appointed to the
Board on October 30, 2015.
ROUX Patrick
Mr Patrick Roux is a graduate from the Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris. He began
his career at Air France in 1990. In 1992, he joined the
Revenue Management Team at Paris headquarters
where he was in charge of implementing the first yield
management tool. After having implemented the merger
with Air Inter, he became, in 1998, Head of Pricing and
Revenue Management for all short and medium haul flights.
In November 1999, he became Head of the Air France
CEO’s Executive Cabinet, until 2002, when he became the
worldwide Marketing Director of Air France.
In 2008, his responsibilities were expanded when he
was appointed Senior Vice-President of Marketing for
Air France-KLM. In September 2010, he became Senior
Vice-President Air France-KLM for the American Continent
based in New York. In September 2013, he was appointed
Senior Vice President Air France-KLM for Asia Pacific, and
Senior Vice President Alliances Air France-KLM as from
February 01, 2016. He was appointed to the Board on
January 22, 2016.
BALLAH Nayen Koomar
Mr Nayen Koomar Ballah was appointed as the Secretary
for Home Affairs on January 01, 2015 and Secretary to
Cabinet and Head of the Civil Service on September 16,
2016.
He has had a long career in the public service and has
been the Secretary of the Public Service Commission and
the Disciplined Forces Service Commission. He has served
in senior positions in various Ministries, such as Ministry of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Resources, Ministry of
Arts and Culture, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of
Public Infrastructure, Land Transport and Shipping and the
Prime Minister’s Office. He has also served as Chairperson
and Member on various Boards and Committees.
Mr Ballah holds a Diploma in Public Administration and
Management, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and
Economics and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English. He
was appointed to the Board on November 10, 2016.
LAM PO TANG Derek
Mr Derek Lam Po Tang is currently the Executive director of
several companies of the Lampotang Group. He has over
25 years of management experience both in trading and
manufacturing sector. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business
Administration with Honours from Washington State University
in USA. He was appointed to the Board on May 04, 2017.
RAGAVOODOO Ammanah
Mrs Ammanah Ragavoodoo holds a Bachelor of
Laws Degree from the London School of Economics and Political
Science, United Kingdom since 1996. Having successfully
completed the Vocational Examinations held by the Council
of Legal Education in 1997, she was admitted as an Attorney
in December 1998 and became a Member of the Mauritius
Law Society. She has been in private practice for the last
nineteen years advising corporate bodies, statutory bodies,
local and International clients. She was appointed to the
Board on May 04, 2017.
ABBASAKOOR Anwar
Mr Anwar Abbasakoor is a practicing Attorney-at-Law.
He qualified as an Attorney at Law in April 1989 and has since
then been exercising in the general practice of law in various
fields including constitutional, political, administrative, family,
tax, corporate, real estate, business, industrial, commercial,
bankruptcy, insolvency, environmental and intellectual
property laws. Over the past 28 years, he has been working
with a widely diverse portfolio of clients ranging from local and
foreign private individuals to corporate entities in Mauritius,
few foreign corporate entities, NGOs, parastatal bodies,
parastatal corporate entities and an autonomous regional
government namely the Rodrigues Regional Assembly.
He has also been a Lecturer in Law at the Council of Legal
Education for three years. He is currently an Independent
Practitioner whilst working in close collaboration with various
other law firms and barristers’ chambers. He was appointed
to the Board on May 04, 2017.
