New Delhi: Air India Chairman N Chandrasekaran on Friday made a major reshuffle in the top management of the recently acquired airline, with Nipun Agarwal as Chief Commercial Officer and Suresh Dutt Tripathi as Chief Human Resource Officer.
Agarwal, who is also senior vice president at Tata Sons, replaces Air India veteran Meenakshi Malik, while Tripathi, who was vice president of human resources at Tata Steel from 2012 to 2021, will replace AI’s Amrita Sharan.
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The order was issued by Chandrasekaran, who is also the chairman of Tata Sons.
According to a company communication, Malik and Sharan were on Friday appointed as advisors to the CEO of Air India.
As the Tata group is yet to appoint the CEO of Air India, Malik and Sharan will at present be Chandrasekaran’s advisors, it noted.
Satya Ramaswamy, who has previously worked at Tata Consultancy Services, was on Friday appointed as the Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Air India, the order said.
Rajesh Dogra was appointed as the Head of Customer Experience and Ground Handling at Air India.
Air India veteran RS Sandhu will continue as the head of operations at Air India, it noted.
Another Air India veteran Vinod Hejmadi will continue to take over as Chief Financial Officer, it noted.
“The newly appointed persons will exercise the powers of functional/departmental heads as per delegation of authority. We wish them all the best in their new role,” Chandrasekaran said in the order.
After a competitive bidding process, the government on October 8 last year sold Air India to Tales Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of the Tata group’s holding company, for Rs 18,000 crore.