Aloke Bajpai is the Chairman, Managing Director and Group CEO of our Company and has been on our Board since June 3, 2006. He is responsible for the overall management of our Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in technology (electrical engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India and a master’s degree in business administration from INSEAD. He worked as a software development engineer and subsequently, as a system and network engineer at Amadeus in France prior to co-founding ixigo.com in India in 2007. Aloke Bajpai is a charter member of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (“TiE”) and an elected member of the governing council of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (“IAMAI”) and was awarded, along with Rajnish Kumar, (i) under the Comeback Kid category at the Economic Times Startup Awards 2021, and (ii) the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Service Business – Travel 2021’ at the Entrepreneur Awards 2021. He was also awarded with the ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award 2022’ from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Under his leadership, our Company has evolved into India’s leading OTA for the ‘next billion users’ with the highest Monthly Active Users across all OTAs as of September 2023. (Source: F&S Report).