Board of Directors

In addition to the Management, the Board of Directors & Advisors of MakeMyTrip comprises investors, advisors and independent members
Independent Board Members
Philip C. Wolf, globally renowned travel guru, is the President and CEO of PhoCusWright Inc., an independent travel, tourism and hospitality research firm specializing in research, consulting and events. The pioneer of Travel 2.0, PhoCusWright Inc. was founded in 1994 and is the travel industry research authority on how travellers, suppliers and intermediaries connect. Independent, rigorous and unbiased, PhoCusWright fosters smart strategic planning and tactical decision-making. The company is headquartered in the United States, with offices in Germany and India. Frederic Lalonde, Expedia veteran and a famous serial entrepreneur, Frederic is currently the founder and CEO of Openplaces.org, a travel start-up that aims to be the world's largest organized repository of maps, pictures, details and advice about every place in the world that anyone has ever travelled to. He started his career in the internet industry when he co-founded Newtrade Technologies Inc, a hugely successful start-up that was acquired by Expedia in 2002. Next, he moved to Expedia, one of the largest travel companies in the world, where he was Vice President of Hotel Supplier Strategy and was responsible for developing the Expedia Direct Connect technology product strategy, and for signing-up the major hotel chain partners (over 10,000 hotels) for Direct Connect. He later became Vice President of Hotels & Packages Product Planning in Expedia and played a key role in the company’s acquisitions of Hotels.com, TripAdvisor and eLong. Vivek N Gour recently retired as the Chief Financial Officer for Genpact Limited. Genpact is a multi-national BPO & Technology Services Company with operations in 13 countries, revenues of over $ 1.1 billion in 2009, and over 40,000 employees. Vivek is one of the core team that has built Genpact over nine years first when it was a captive of GE and after 2005 as an independent company. Prior to this he was CFO for GE Global Business Processes, Connecticut, USA from 2003-2004 and CFO GE Capital India, 2002-2003. He has also worked with GE Capital India as Vice President & Treasurer covering India Treasury and GE Europe Treasury Operations. Vivek led the project execution for the separation of Genpact from GE in 2004 and its sale to PE firms. Later, he took the company Public in 2007, listing on New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “G”. Earlier in his career, Vivek worked with First Leasing Company of India, Tata Finance and IL&FS in various middle management positions. He holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi (1985) and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Sydenham College, University of Bombay (1983).