Who is Rakesh Gangwal?

Rakesh Gangwal, the co-founder of India’s largest airlines IndiGo, is an airline veteran whose family owns nearly 37 per cent stake in InterGlobe Aviation, the parent outfit of budget airline IndiGo.

 

Early life

 

Rakesh Gangwal was born in 1953 and completed his schooling from Don Bosco (Park Circus), Kolkata and Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1975. He went on to do his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Rakesh Gangwal's career

 

Rakesh Gangwal's association with the aviation industry began in September 1980, when he was an associate with Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc. He