Media Release 

Mangaluru, Sep 26: Isaac Vas has been elected as the president of the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) at its 79th annual general body meeting held on Wednesday, 25th September. 

KCCI was founded in the year 1940. The newly elected Board of KCCI for 2019-20 includes Shashidhar Pai Maroor as vice-president, Nissar Fakeer Mohammed and Divakar Pai Kochikar as the secretaries, M Ganesh Kamath as treasurer, Nitte Yathiraj Shetty, B A Nazeer, Ananthesh V Prabhu, Amith Ramachandra Acharya, Aditya Padmanabha Pai, Abdur Rahman Musba, P B Ahmed Mudassar and Athmika Subbiah as directors.

Isaac Vas 

Directors 

Office bearers 

Isaac Vas is the managing director of Merger Beverages P Ltd, makers of Merger Soda. The company owns the only fully automatic PET and glass bottling line of the district. He also manages Jyothi Advertisers, one of the largest outdoor advertisement providers in the city, which has some of the leading brands as its clients. 

His business has expanded into other areas and today they are stockists for Servo Industrial Lubricants for Indian Oil for 7 districts of Karnataka. 

Isaac Vas has served as the secretary of the Kanara Small Industries Association, Baikampady, honorary secretary of Mangalore Club and the Assistant Governor for Rotary International. Having worked with Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers for 12 years, he has a strong corporate exposure to his credit. 

In his upcoming tenure as KCCI president, he emphasizes to focus on tourism, IT and startup making KCCI as recognised centre for alternate dispute redressal and encouraging women entrepreneurs.