Born in 1932, a student of the Sydenham College of Commerce, Bombay, he joined the company in 1952; became the Deputy Chairman and Managing Director in 1975 and rose to become the Chairman and Managing Director in 1992. After guiding the company in its strategic and decision making policies as the Executive Chairman for more than 20 years he ceased to be whole time Director of the Company in September 2014. He continues to be the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company.

Previously, he held the post of President of the Indian National Shipowners Association (INSA) and was the employers' group Chairman in the International Labour Organization (ILO) plenary session in Geneva. He continues to be Chairman of the South Asia Advisory Committee of Lloyds Register of Shipping and also Chairman of the South Asia Committee of Det Norske Veritas. He is Chairman of the Indian Committee of Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, Japan , member of ABS ( American Bureau of Shipping.) and a member of Indian Committee of ABS.

Born in 1958, Mr. Bharat Sheth joined the Company in 1981, just after obtaining his Bachelor of Science (Economics) with honours from St Andrews University, Scotland. In the initial years of his career he worked very closely with his colleagues and gained expertise in chartering and Sale & Purchase activities, the most intricate part of the shipping business. He was inducted onto the Company's Board as an Executive Director on July 1, 1989 and became Managing Director of the Company on April 1, 1999. On August 12, 2005, he was appointed as the Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of the Company.

He is also the Chairman of Greatship (India) Ltd and a Director on Board of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited, North of England P&I Association Ltd, Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association, Indian National Shipowners Association & International Tankers Owners Pollution Federation Ltd.

Inducted on the Board in 2006, Berjis is an eminent professional law practitioner. He has extensive experience both as an Arbitrator and Counsel, in International, Commercial and Domestic Arbitrations and has been associated with landmark legal pronouncements and interpretation.

Bhavna Doshi, founding partner of Bhavna Doshi & Associates LLP,  an advisory firm, is former Senior Advisor to KPMG and former partner of KPMG member firm in India.  With specialization in the fields of taxation and corporate restructuring, she has been providing advisory services to national and multi-national entities for over 30 years.  She is Chartered Accountant from India and holds Master’s degree in Commerce from University of Mumbai. She serves as independent director on Boards of several listed companies. She was elected to the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for four terms of three years each. ICAI is body established for development and regulation of profession of accountancy in India.  She has chaired Accounting Standards Board ( which sets accounting standards), Research, Vision 2021 and other Committees of ICAI.    She was also member of a group supporting Tax Administration Reform Commission chaired by Dr Parthsarathy Shome. She has served as a member of the Government Accounting Standards Advisory Board set up by the Controller and Auditor General of India.  She was a Member of Compliance Committee of International Federation of Accountants, headquartered in New York. Bhavna was President of the Indian Merchants’ Chamber and is actively associated with its activities.  She, during her Presidentship, established “IMC Inclusive Innovation Awards” to recognize work of the grass root innovators which meet the criteria of “affordable excellence”. She is member of the Managing Committee of Assocham and of CII Corporate Governance Council. She is a regular faculty at programs organized by professional institutes and business chambers and also delivers lectures abroad. Woman and child empowerment are very close to her heart and she takes out time for social activities. She is also on the Board of Greatship(India) Limited, company’s wholly owned subsidiary.

Mr. Keki Mistry is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). Mr. Keki Mistry brings with him over four decades of varied work experience in the Banking & Financial Services domain. In 1975, Mr. Mistry began his career with AF Ferguson & Co., a renowned Chartered Accountancy Firm, followed by short stints with Hindustan Unilever Ltd. and Indian Hotels Company Limited. In 1981, Mr. Mistry joined Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC) , India's premier housing finance company. Over the years he held several responsibilities, prior to being inducted onto its Board as Executive Director in 1993. He was appointed as the Managing Director in 2000, as the Vice Chairman & Managing Director in October 2007 and was the Vice-Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of HDFC with effect from January 01, 2010. With the amalgamation of HDFC , Mr. Mistry superannuated from HDFC and has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of HDFC Bank Limited. from June 30, 2023.

Mr. Raju Shukla has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Vivesvaraya Regional College, Nagpur. He is the Executive Chairman and Founder of Cleantech Renewable Assets Pte ltd (Cleantech Solar Group), a Pan Asian Independent Power Producer that owns and operates solar power plants across South East Asia and India for Industrial and Corporate clients. Cleantech is a joint venture company with Shell Eastern Petroleum Pte Ltd which owns 49% stake in the company. Mr. Shukla, Founder of Ariana Investment Management, a fund management company, was also CEO from its incorporation in 2013 until 2019. He was also Non-Executive Chairman of Ocean Dial Asset Management that manages USD 500 mn of assets investing in listed Indian equities. Mr. Shukla served as Managing Director at Barclays Bank plc., Singapore for over 10 years. Prior to joining Barclays, he worked for 9 years with Deutsche Bank, SBC Warburg and DSP Merrill Lynch in senior management roles.

Mr. Pandit holds an MBA degree from Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a B.E. degree in Electronic Engineering from VJTI, University of Bombay. He served as a Managing Director at General Atlantic, LLC between 2007 and 2012, and later as an Advisory Director in 2013. Prior to joining General Atlantic, he served as a Managing Director and Chairman of McKinsey & Co. in India. He was the Co-Founder of McKinsey’s India practice. Mr Pandit currently serves as a Non-Executive Director in all Consumer Businesses of Reliance Industries Ltd including Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd and Reliance Retail Ltd. He is also a Non-Executive Director in CEAT Ltd and Just Dial Ltd. He is currently an investor and a philanthropist with a controlling interest in several manufacturing businesses.

Ms. Kalpana Morparia is a graduate in science and law from Bombay University. Ms. Kalpana Morparia was Former Chairman of JPMorgan, South and Southeast Asia and was also a member of JPMorgan’s Asia Pacific Management Committee. Prior to joining JPMorgan, India, Ms. Kalpana Morparia served in ICICI Group since 1975. Her last assignment included Vice Chair on the Board of ICICI Group Companies and Joint Mangaging Director of ICICI Bank from 2001 to 2007. Ms. Kalpana Morparia has been recognized by several international and national media for her role as one of the leading women professionals. She is also a member of the Governing Board of Bharti Foundation, Foundation for Audit Quality (FAQ) and Krea University. She is also a Director of Generation India Foundation. She has been conferred the Padma Shri award in the category of Trade and Industry by the Government of India in January 2024.

Mr. Dr. Shankar Acharya, B.A. (Hons.) from Oxford University and Ph.D. (Economics) from Harvard University has considerable experience in various fields of economics and finance. He is a Honorary Professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and a Member of the Court of Governors at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI). He was Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance; Member, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and Member, Twelfth Finance Commission. He has held several senior positions in the World Bank, including Director of World Development Report (1979) and Research Adviser.

Ambassador Shivshankar Menon is currently visiting professor at Ashoka University, India, and Chair of the Ashoka Centre for China Studies. He was previously National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, Jan 2010-May 2014; Foreign Secretary of India, October 2006-July 2009; and has served as the Indian Ambassador or High Commissioner to China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Israel. In 2016 he published Choices; Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy. His book on India and Asian Geopolitics; The Past, Present (Brookings Press USA, Penguin Random House India) was released in April 2021. He has been a Fisher Family Fellow at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, and Richard Wilhelm Fellow at MIT in 2015. He was chosen one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine in 2010. He is also Chairman, Advisory Board, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi; Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, India; Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore; Member, Board of Trustees, International Crisis Group; and, a Distinguished Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute, New York.

Mr. T. N. Ninan is widely considered to be a pioneering editor and trend-setter in Indian business journalism. Inthe course ofa career spanningfivedecades, he brought about transformativechange in different publications that he led as the editor.Over the years he has been involved with a number of non-profit organisations. Mr. Ninanwas the editor ofBusiness Standardfrom1993 to 2009,and from 1996 to 2009 itspublisheras well. He was thechairman of thecompanysboardof directors from 2009 till 2020. Earlier, Mr. Ninan was the editor of The Economic Times; and, in the 1980s, the executive editor at India Today. Mr. Ninan writes a widely-read weeklyopinioncolumn, Weekend Ruminations, in Business Standard; the column is translated and published indifferentvernacular publications. His book,The Turn of the Tortoise (2015), offered a critical assessment of Indias economic prospects.He has also been a television commentator on economic and business issues. Since 2016, Mr.Ninanhas been chairman of the board of trustees of Independent and Public-Spirited Media Foundation, the largest charitable funder of independent news websites. He is an independent director of The Press Trust of India Ltd, Indias leading wire service. He is a past president of the Editors Guild of India. Mr. Ninan isa recipient of professional awards, including two for lifetime achievement.

Mr. Uday Shankar, director at Marigold Park, is a highly successful and globally recognized Indian executive who created one of the biggest media and entertainment businesses in the Asia-Pacific region. In his new avatar, Mr. Shankar is a technology entrepreneur and is partnering with James Murdoch to set up technology-led enterprises. He currently also serves as the Immediate Past President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Indias premier industry association, and was formerly the President of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF). Mr. Shankar has served in several leadership roles including as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Star India, President of 21st Century Fox Asia, and more recently President of The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific Chairman of Disney Star India. Under his leadership, Star transformed into the regions leading company placed distinctively at the intersection of media, entertainment and technology. He is credited with leading the streaming and OTT revolution in India and in the APAC region. Hotstar is now a leading global OTT. Star Sports transformed into Asias leading sports network during his tenure. He also led the companys strong foray into regional and local language content, building a comprehensive consumer offering across entertainment and sports. Mr. Shankar started his career in news and is widely regarded as the pioneer of television news revolution in India with the launch of Aaj Tak, Star News and whats now known as India Today TV. Mr. Shankar has been a key contributor to shaping the Indian media and entertainment sector, championing important reforms such as digitization of the distribution ecosystem and self-regulation of content. Mr. Shankar serves on the boards of global non-profit Malaria No More, and on the boards of Kotak Mahindra Bank and Business Standard. He also serves as an Advisor to the board of US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF). Mr. Shankar has been awarded numerous business and industry honours. He was conferred the honorary doctorate degree by Bennett University (The Times of India Group). He was recognized by Forbes India as the Best CEO (MNC), named Entrepreneur of the Year (Entrepreneurial CEO) by EY, and has featured in Indian Express 100 Most Powerful Indians and in India Todays 50 Most Powerful People in India. Mr. Shankar has completed his Masters in Philosophy and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Honours from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Born in 1961, Mr. Ravi K. Sheth graduated with a Master of Business Administration from Babson College, Wellesley, U.S.A. He joined The Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. in 1989.

He was appointed as a Whole Time Director on January 30, 2006. He is currently designated as a Director of the Company and Managing Director of Greatship (India) Limited.

Mr. G Shivakumar is a bachelor of Commerce and a post-graduate in management from IIM Ahmedabad. He joined the Company as a management trainee immediately after completing his management in 1990, and contributed to the company through stints in key functions like Treasury, Corporate Finance, Human Resources, and Strategic Planning, besides being the Chief Financial Officer of our subsidiary Greatship (India) Limited. He is currently designated as CFO.