Dr Dinesh A Keskar Senior Vice President, Sales, Boeing India
Dr Dinesh A Keskar, Senior Vice President, Sales, Boeing India
Dr Dinesh A Keskar, Senior Vice President, Sales, Boeing India
For more than 75 years, with the Freighter, , , the gamechanger Dreamliner and more, Boeing has been the mainstay of India’s commercial aviation sector. Dr Dinesh A Keskar, Senior Vice President, Sales, Boeing India, gives an insight into the growth of Boeing in India.
How important is the Indian market for Boeing? How have you seen it growing and what are the latest developments?
Boeing has been in India for over 75 years now. We started jet aviation in India with Air India. Since then, India has gone through major transformations and aviation in the country is the fastest growing in world. Growth rate is more than 20 pc per year.
Obviously, airports have also seen that growth and that’s why development of new airports is being talked about, for instance, in Navi Mumbai. Existing airports have also been significantly upgraded over the years – Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, etc.
It is great to see that new airports are coming up, because today roughly million passengers are flying through domestic Indian airports and to cater to the
Dinesh Keskar was appointed President of Boeing India on 1st March , with direct charge of civil aviation, as well as Boeing&#;s defence business in India. In his first media interaction since his appointment he discusses Boeing&#;s initiatives for cracking India&#;s defence market.
Q. &#; &#;How big are the opportunities for Boeing in India's defence market?
For me India is not new. I&#;ve been working here since &#; but handling Boeing&#;s defence business is new to me and I&#;ll be the first to admit that. But there are clearly significant opportunities coming up in India.
The P8I deal (India&#;s $ purchase of Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft) that we did earlier this year is a military watershed for us&#; there are new RFPs (Requests for Proposals, or calls for tenders) in the areas of helicopters and the fighter deal (India&#;s proposed $11 billion purchase of medium fighter aircraft). We think we have products and technologies that we can share and partner with India.
Q. &#; &#; Your appointment&#; is it a recognition by Boeing that India&#;s defence market demands having a man in charge who clearly understands India&#;s culture and how business is done h
Nostalgia: APJ Abdul Kalam with Dinesh Keskar during his visit to Boeing&#;s Seattle plant &#; PICTURE COURTESY: BOEING
The sudden demise of former President APJ Abdul Kalam on July 27, left people mourning in India. Over 12,km away in Seattle too, a pall of gloom descend on Boeing&#;s manufacturing plant, where the former President had charmed and impressed the employees during his visit in Later Dinesh Keskar, Senior Vice-President, Asia-Pacific and India, Boeing Aeroplanes called Kalam “a friend of a lot of people, including Boeing.”
During the visit, the former President had shown an interest in meeting Joe Sutter, the man who designed the double-decker aircraft, the Boeing , which is popularly known as the Jumbo Jet. “The former President knew of him (Sutter) and wanted to meet him,” recalls Keskar.
The visit to the Seattle plant was Kalam’s first to the Boeing’s manufacturing facility. The year-old Sutter, often called the Father of the , was there. The two had a minute meeting which Keskar too attended. “The former President wondered how Sutter had come up with the idea of the upper deck. Kalam also asked Sutter about the support he had in designing the Boeing ,” Ke
Dinesh Keskar to lead Boeing India
PTI | BySeema Hakhu Kachru, Houston
Feb 11, AM IST
Indian American Dinesh Keskar has been appointed by the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft, Boeing Company, to lead Boeing India from March.
Indian American Dinesh Keskar has been appointed by the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft, Boeing Company, to lead Boeing India from March.
The Boeing on Monday named Ian Thomas President of Boeing Australia and South Pacific, and Dinesh Keskar Vice-President of Boeing International and President of Boeing India.
Keskar, 54, originally from Rajkot, India, will represent the entire enterprise and be responsible for leading Boeing-wide efforts focused on expanding the company's local presence and pursuing new growth and productivity initiatives.
Prior to this appointment, Keskar served as Boeing Commercial Airplanes Vice-President of Sales for South and Southeast Asia, and was responsible for overseeing all activities for that business within the region. "Dinesh has a proven track record for
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