Parsis at the helm

Kekoo Nicholson, managing director of the advertising consultancy firm of Selvel was elected president of the Cricket Club of India (CCI) at its 80th annual general meeting on October 11, 2014. A regular at local billiards and snooker tournaments, Nicholson was re-elected to the executive committee as well. Businessman Darayus Mehta, proprietor of Ardeshar M. Mehta and Itmore General Trading Private Limited, exporters, importers, provision and fresh food suppliers, who was elected to the executive committee, is a first timer on the board whose members enjoy a three-year term. Industrialist Noel Tata remains a nominated member of the CCI’s executive committee.

Kekoo Nicholson: heading CCI

Many other major clubs and gymkhanas are helmed by Parsis. Senior counsel Jamshed Cama is president of the tony Willingdon Sports Club, solicitor Darius Udwadia heads Bombay Gymkhana while Tata director and community activist Homi Khusrokhan is president of The Club Mahabaleshwar. At India’s only club exclusively for women, the Princess Victoria Mary Gymkhana and Gymnasium, the de facto president is always the wife of the Governor of Maharashtra. However, the PVM, as it is popularly known, is run by a managing committee headed by vice presidents Homai Levi and Nergish Navlakhi with honorary secretaries Jeroo Contractor and Khorshed Antia.