Thomson Press Team

Aroon Purie, Chairman

Aroon PurieChairman

An alumnus of the London School of Economics and a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants (England and Wales), Aroon Purie is responsible for the strategic direction of the company. He started his career in 1970 at Thomson Press as Production Controller and still continues to be its guiding force.

As Editor-in-Chief & Chairman of The India Today Group as well as Chairman & Managing Director, TV Today Network Limited, he sets the journalistic style for the largest, most respected magazine publishing group and media conglomerate in India. He also heads the new joint venture with the Daily Mail, U.K., to launch newspapers in India shortly.

He has served as Chairman of the Council of Management, Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) in 2000-1; Chairman & Member of the CII's Committee on Media & Entertainment in 2003-04; and, is presently a Member of the Executive Committee of the Editors Guild of India and Vice-Chairman, Board of Directors, of the International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP).

He is also the recipient of many prestigious Awards - The B.D. Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (1988), The G.K. Reddy Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (1993-94), the ITA Scroll of Honour, 2003 (News & Current Affairs) from the Indian Television Academy, amongst others. Recently, he was conferred the prestigious Apsara Award from the Film and Television Producers' Guild of India for his Outstanding Contribution to Indian Television. He was awarded the PADMA BHUSHAN - amongst India 's highest civilian honours from the President of India in 2001.

Ankoor Purie, Managing Director

Ankoor Purie Managing Director

Mr Ankoor Purie is the Managing Director of Thomson Press (India) Ltd. Thomson Press is a member of the India Today Group which has varied interests in magazine publishing (India Today, Reader's Digest, etc.), broadcasting (Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, Tez, etc.), music, etc. Thomson Press is acknowledged as the country's largest commercial printing company. Besides being a member of the board, he oversees manufacturing at all units of Thomson Press. For the last few years he has been spearheading the manufacturing, quality, systems and technology up gradation of the company.

Mr Purie is also actively involved in driving group strategy and leads the groups' recent foray into the Educational and Digital Media Sector.

He is also a Founder - Director of Hyper Space Music Pvt. Ltd., an event and music label company under the brand name 'Dada Music'.

Mr Purie completed his schooling from Modern School, New Delhi and went to complete his Bachelors Degree in Print Management from the London College of Printing.

C J Jassawala, Executive Director - Printing

C J Jassawala Executive Director - Printing

C J Jassawala joined Thomson Press, Print Business as Chief Operating Officer in December 2006.

He did his post graduation in Human Resource Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur and was selected to join the Tata Administrative Services. Thereafter, he worked for 23 years with Voltas (A Tata Group Company) culminating in his last assignment there as Vice President - Operations and Business Head. He carries a wide experience in leadership, team building, turnaround management and business excellence.

As Executive Director - Printing, C J Jassawala is responsible for print operations across 5 units in the country and offices abroad.

Anil Mehra, Group Executive & Finance Director

Anil Mehra Chief Financial Officer

Anil Mehra is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of England & Wales as also of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is the Group Executive and Finance Director of the India Today Group as well as Managing Director of Living Media India Limited and has been associated with the Group for 35 years.he has considerable expertise in the printing and multimedia industry.

Mehra's expertise includes Financial Management, Tax Planning, Management Control, Legal, and Corporate Affairs. He has been involved in all the projects and acquisitions for the India Today Group.

Mehra is also the Governor of leading Educational Institutions and Trustee of charitable trusts.

He is also a keen Golf player.


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