Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Y P Teik might be Tata-SIA chief

Mumbai: Tata-Singapore Airlines is putting together a management team as it awaits clearance from the civil aviation ministry to start its India operations. The airline is a joint venture of Tata Group and Singapore Airlines (SIA), with a 51:49 shareholding. It will run on a full-service model, with its base in Delhi.
Yeoh Phee Teik, an SIA executive who is director of the project office in India, is tipped to be the new airline’s chief executive. He was the divisional vice-president of information technology at SIA, before moving to India.
S Varadarajan, former head of human resources at Tata Teleservices, is heading human resources at the new airline. Tata-SIA is searching for a chief financial officer and someone from within the Tata group might get selected.
Roshan Joshi, former head  of the flight operations, safety and security department at SIA, has been appointed senior vice-president (operations) of the new airline.G M Toh, a former general manager of SIA in India, is part of the airline’s launch team and might be assigned a commercial role.
01/04/14 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
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