Rakesh Gangwal was born on July 1953 and is an Indian-American billionaire businessman.
17 Facts About Rakesh Gangwal
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Rakesh Gangwal is the co-founder IndiGo Airlines alongside Rahul Bhatia.
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Rakesh Gangwal is the former chief executive officer and chairman of US Airways Group.
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From June 2003 to August 2007, Gangwal was the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Worldspan Technologies, a provider of travel technology and information services to the travel and transportation industry.
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From 2002 to 2003, Rakesh Gangwal was involved in various personal business endeavors, including private equity projects and consulting projects.
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Rakesh Gangwal was the president and CEO of US Airways Group from 1998 until his resignation in 2001.
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In November 2024, Rakesh Gangwal was appointed chair of the Southwest Airlines corporate board.
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Rakesh Gangwal was born in July 1953 in a Marwari Jain family based in Kolkata, India.
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Rakesh Gangwal attended Don Bosco School, Park Circus before earning a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1975, and an MBA degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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In 1984, Rakesh Gangwal joined United as the manager for strategic planning.
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Previously, Rakesh Gangwal had been a financial analyst in the product development group of Ford Motor Company and a production and planning engineer with Philips India Ltd.
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Rakesh Gangwal has served on the board of advisers of the University of Colorado Denver, the board of trustees of Providence St Mel School, the Board of Directors of the Airline Tariff Publishing Co.
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Rakesh Gangwal was conferred with the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
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In 2020, Rakesh Gangwal was ranked 359th on the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America.
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In July 2024, Rakesh Gangwal joined the board of Southwest Airlines, later buying approximately 108 million worth of shares of the airline.
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Rakesh Gangwal is married with one daughter and lives in Miami, Florida.
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Rakesh Gangwal later launched her own start-up, Minnesota-based Wheelhouse Capital, in June 2021.