Chandran Ratnaswami is a Managing Director of Hamblin Watsa Investment Counsel Ltd., the wholly owned investment management company of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited. Hamblin Watsa provides discretionary investment management to the insurance, reinsurance and runoff subsidiaries of Fairfax. Chandran is responsible for investments in Asia. Chandran was recently appointed a Director and CEO of Fairfax India Holdings Corporation, an investment holding company, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The Company will make investments in India. Prior to joining Hamblin Watsa, Chandran was a senior executive at a large multinational consumer packaged foods company.
He then went on to become an owner/president of an industrial distribution company. Ratnaswami holds a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from I. I. T. Madras, India, and an MBA from the University of Toronto, Canada. Ratnaswami is a Founding Director and Chairman of the Investment Committee of Fairfax's joint venture in India with ICICI Bank, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd., Mumbai, India's largest private general Insurance Company. He is also a director of First Capital Insurance Limited, Singapore, a subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings, Zoomermedia Limited, listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in Toronto, Canada, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd., listed on the Bombay Stock exchange and Thai Reinsurance Public Company Limited, listed on the stock Exchange of Thailand.
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