TI is used for titles like "president" and "chairman", which can be used in certain circumstances without a determiner: after the preposition "as" or after verbs liked "name" or "elect".
+--------------CO-------------+ +--TI--+-Mp---+ | | | | | As president of the company, it is my decision +----TI--+ | | She was named president of the companyThere are special dictionary entries for the no-determiner usage of these nouns:
president.i chairman.i: {@M+} & (BI- or (Xd- & Xc+ & MX-) or TI-);As this expression shows, such nouns can also be complements of "be" ("She is president of the company"), using BI-; and they can also form comma expressions modifying a noun ("Jane Smith, president of the company, ..."), using MX-.