Aditya Ghosh is an Indian businessman who worked in aviation and hospitality industries. He was a former president and whole time director of
IndiGo
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.He is also the Co-Founder of Akasa Air with Vinay Dube .
Early life and education
Ghosh was born in
New Delhi
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. He is a son of an
Indian Administrative Service
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officer. He completed his graduation in law from
Delhi University
Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...
. He did his master's from
Kirori Mal College
Kirori Mal College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. Established in 1954, it is located in the North Campus of the university in New Delhi, India. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the sciences, humanities ...
in Delhi.
Career
Ghosh started his career in 1997 by joining J. Sagar Associates, a law firm. He later worked at InterGlobe Enterprises as Group General Counsel followed by
IndiGo
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as the President and whole time director. Under him IndiGo got a market capitalisation of 55,000
crore
A crore (; abbreviated cr) denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 107 in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. It is written as 1,00,00,000 with the local 2,2,3 style of digit group separators (one lakh is e ...
. After ten years, in 2018, he resigned from IndiGo. In the same year on 1 December, he was appointed as the CEO of
OYO hotels in India and South Asia.
In 2020, he joined
Fabindia
Fabindia is an Indian chain store retailing garments, furnishings, fabrics and ethnic products Handicraft, handmade by craftspeople across rural India. Established in 1960 by John Bissell, an American working for the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, ...
as a member of its board of directors. In 2021, he collaborated with his friend Anjan Chatterjee and opened a restaurant named ''Chourangi'' in London.
In December 2021 he co-founded
Akasa Air
Akasa Air, a brand of SNV Aviation Private Limited, is an Indian low-cost airline headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded by Vinay Dube and Aditya Ghosh with investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala holding a 46% stake in the airline. T ...
along with Vinay Dube. The airline began its operation on 7 August 2022 from Mumbai to Ahmedabad. As of February 2023 the airline has 17 aircraft flying to 11 destinations. Dube holds a 10% stake in the airline.
Personal life
Aditya Ghosh is currently married to Manavi Ghosh.
Awards
*Low Cost Leadership Award at World Airlines awards in 2011.
*GQ Business of the Year award in 2013.
*CEO of the Year award by SABRE in 2013.
See also
*
Ajay Singh, Indian businessman, Chairman and Managing Director of SpiceJet
*
Lloyd Mathias, Indian business executive and an entrepreneur
References
Living people
Businesspeople from Delhi
Delhi University alumni
Kirori Mal College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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