The Management of Tolani Shipping Company Limited vests with the Board of Directors. The Board is an optimal mix of Whole-time and Independent Directors, who are professionals with extensive knowledge & experience and bring valuable multidimensional perspectives to the table. The Board provides expert guidance, long-term visions and strategies for the growth of the Company.
Promoter Director
Dr. Sujata Naik-Tolani – Chairperson
Managing Director
Mr. R. Kumar
Independent Directors
Mr. Raymond L. Pai
Mr. Anil Harish
Board’s Committees as per the Companies Act, 2013
1. Nomination & Remuneration Committee
2. Audit Committee
3. Corporate Social Responsibility Committee
Dr. Sujata Naik -Tolani
Dr. Sujata Naik-Tolani, daughter of Late Dr.N.P.Tolani, graduated from Seth G.S.Medical College, Mumbai in 1984 which was followed by MS (Otolaryngology) in 1988 from T. N. Medical College, Mumbai. With the intent of broadening her professional horizon, she proceeded to USA, where she was triple board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Sujata Naik-Tolani, a practicing pulmonologist and intensivist was Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at The Brooklyn Hospital Centre, New York, NY. She was also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cornell Medical School, New York, NY. In this capacity she was involved in teaching and training several medical students, resident doctors and pulmonary fellows. Presently she has taken an indefinite sabbatical from the medical profession to participate and guide the family business and social initiatives.
Dr. Sujata Naik-Tolani has been a member of the Board of Directors of Tolani Group of Companies since 1984. In 2009, she was appointed as the Chairperson of the Board of Tolani Shipping Company Limited and has actively been steering the growth of the Company.
Dr. Sujata Naik-Tolani is the President (2020 - present) of the Indian National Ship Owners Association (INSA). She also serves as the Chairperson of the Research and Training Committee, and is a trustee of the Maritime Training Trust. As an INSA nominee she serves on the Board of Directors of Indian Register of Shipping.
Imbibed with the persona of her father, Late Dr.N.P.Tolani, she guides the social initiatives of the Group with the same dynamism and commitment. She is the Chairperson of the Governing Council of Tolani Maritime Institute (TMI) and a member of the Governing Body of Tolani Education Society (TES), which has established and manages the Tolani College of Commerce (TCC).
Mr. R. Kumar
Mr. R.Kumar, graduated in Commerce in the year 1984 from the University of Calcutta. Thereafter, he completed his post graduate studies in Cost Accountancy and Company Secretary. With experience in finance, accounts and banking, he joined the Tolani Group in 1991. Over the years, Mr. Kumar handled diverse portfolios with increasing responsibilities. He rapidly climbed the ladder in the organization and became an integral part of the core management team. He was inducted into the Board in the year 2000 and appointed Managing Director of the Company in 2007.
Presently, he is also a Member of Governing Council of Tolani Maritime Institute (TMI) and on the Advisory Committee of Tolani College of Commerce (TCC), guiding the institutions on their qualitative functioning and growth.
Mr. Anil Harish
Mr. Anil Harish completed his B.A. and LL.B. in Mumbai and thereafter completed his LL.M. from the University of Miami. He is presently a Partner at D.M. Harish & Co., Advocates.
Mr. Anil Harish’s practice includes many diverse areas of the law including, Property, Taxation, Exchange Control and Succession. He has been on the Managing Committee of Indian Merchants Chamber, Chamber of Tax Consultants and ITAT Bar Association and an office bearer of several institutions in the legal field such as the Society of Indian Law Firms, of which he was the Vice President. Mr. Harish has been ranked by the prestigious legal directory of Chambers & Partners as a leading tax lawyer.
Mr. Harish has given several professional speeches in India and overseas and has authored several articles which have been published in the leading newspapers and journals of the country.
Mr. Anil Harish is a director of several prestigious public limited companies being Hinduja Global Solutions Limited, Oberoi Realty Limited, Blue Star Limited and Emaar India Limited etc. Mr. Anil Harish is a Trustee of several educational and charitable trusts, such as D. M. Harish Foundation and Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board.
Mr. Raymond L. Pai
Mr. Raymond L. Pai is a Marine Engineer by qualification, having graduated from DMET in 1963. He had a brief sea career with Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. (SCI). He then moved to the shore management of SCI for the next 13 years holding senior management positions in the technical, operations, development, finance, new building and commercial departments of SCI's diversified fleet of tankers, bulk, container, general cargo, gas carrier, passenger and offshore vessels.
In 1981, he set up an independent shipping and offshore business group in Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T), which he headed as chief executive till Oct 1994, with responsibility for all financial, commercial and operational functions of the group.
In 1994, the Reliance management invited him to join the top management project team to setup the mega refinery and petrochemicals complex at Jamnagar. He was team leader responsible for concept, design, EPC and commissioning of the refinery infrastructure and logistics facilities for import of crude oil and evacuation of products by sea, road, rail, and pipeline. He was Director in charge of RPTL (Reliance Ports & Terminals Ltd.). He next worked closely on the design, modification, and commissioning of India's largest FPSO Dhirubai-1. In 2006 he started work on developing a new green-field multi-cargo, large port complex at Rewas (near Mumbai) and was director of Rewas Ports Ltd. Between 2014 -18 he was advisor to the Reliance Group for design, construction and commissioning of the world’s largest Ethane Liquefied gas carrier fleet to move 1.5 mmtpa of cryogenic Ethane from US Gulf to India as feedstock for the Reliance petrochemical plants.
Among other professional activities in his 56-year career are:
• For 7-years on official GoI delegations to IMO Council and Assembly sessions.
• Director of INSA from 1986-2008 and President of INSA during 1993-94.
• Member of the governing board of GoI National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai - 1997-2008
• Member of the governing board of erstwhile GoI National Ship Design and Research Centre Visakhapatnam - 1987-2000
• He has been on the India Advisory Committees of ABS, DNV-GL, LR and NK, for over 25 years and is also chairman of the LR & NK S. Asia Technical Committees.
He joined the Board of TSCL in December 2015. The Board of the company benefits from his varied wealth of experience in the maritime sector.