Mr. Firdaus Jehangir Tarachand
Mr. Firdaus Jehangir Tarachand is a Chartered Accountant. He started his career with JBF Industries as a Manager – Finance. After being associated with JBF Industries for 6 years, he moved on to Hinduja Group with Gulf Oil Trading Company Pvt Ltd (GOTCO) and later with an internal transfer to Gulf Oil India Ltd. He set up the Treasury Department Gulf Oil India and slowly rose to the position of a CFO in 11 years with the Company. During those 11 years the Company was merged into another Hinduja group Company and it was also listed through a reverse merger process through an Order of the Honourable High Court. He was also the heading the IT department which was at the time in the process of establishing a custom-built ERP systems.
He moved to Medley Pharmaceuticals as Sr. GM – Finance in 2007 and was overseeing Accounts, Finance, MIS, Costing and IT. The Company was in the process of moving to SAP and hence his experience in ERP helped set up SAP and migration to All-India and also during transition to GST. At the time of his retirement in 2022, he was part of the senior management team. He was also Trustee of a school for 10 years for mentally challenged children which operated under an NGO