Dr. Srinivasan Dwarakanath appointed CEO of Airbus India

Airbus is grouping its activities in India through the creation of a fully owned subsidiary called Airbus India to manage the company’s significant Indian footprint spread across several sites. Dr. Srinivasan Dwarakanath (Dwaraka) has been appointed Airbus India CEO and Mr Charles Champion, EVP Airbus Engineering and member of the Airbus Executive Committee is appointed the Chairman of Airbus India. The existing Delhi Airbus liaison office will remain under the leadership of Ajay Mehra. The new Airbus India organisation will have customer facing centres in Delhi and Mumbai. Building on the success of the Airbus Engineering Centre India (AECI) in Bangalore, Airbus India will also include strategy, customer services and procurement teams under one organisation. A Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) capability will be established, at a later date.