Dinesh Keskar

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Dr. Dinesh Keskar is senior vice president of Sales and president of Boeing Aircraft Trading.^[1] In his role, he is responsible for marketing all types of aircraft, owned by Boeing, to customers worldwide. Additionally, he was in charge of commercial airplanes sales activities in India.^[2]

1 Education
2 Career
3 Achievements
4 References

[edit] Education

Born on July 25, 1954, in Rajkot, India, Dr. Keskar received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology with a Gold Medal in 1975. He received his master’s and doctorate degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1976 and 1978, respectively, under the supervision of Neil Armstrong.^[2] Further, he received an MBA from City University in Seattle in 1987 and was a recipient of the President’s Honor Roll. In 1994, he attended the Berkeley Executive Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

[edit] Career

Before joining Boeing, Dr. Keskar worked as a research associate in the Flight Dynamics and Control Division at NASA Langley Research Center.

Since joining Boeing in June 1980, Dr. Keskar has held senior positions in engineering, marketing and sales. From 1980 to 1986, he was responsible for research and consultation in the areas of system identification, digital signal processing and modern control theory. Dr. Keskar developed the techniques to conduct flight tests and analyze flight test data to obtain airplane math models for the 737, 747, 757 and 767 flight simulators.

From 1987 to 1995, Dr. Keskar was a director of International Sales where he managed all of Boeing’s airplane sales and marketing activities in India, and was responsible for managing relationships with government operated Air India and Indian Airlines, related civil aviation government offices and new India-based private airlines. During his tenure in India, Boeing maintained a 100 percent market share.

From August 1995 until January 2000, Dr. Keskar was president of Boeing India. In this role, he was responsible for the company’s sales and marketing, airline support and industrial partnership activities in India.

In addition to his position as president of Boeing Aircraft Trading, Dr. Keskar, was appointed to senior vice president of Sales for South and Southeast Asia In August 2004. His responsibilities included overseeing all commercial airplanes activities in countries including Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives and Nepal, as well as Korea-based Asiana Airlines. While Dr. Keskar continues in this role, he served as president of Boeing Aircraft Trading until March 2005.

[edit] Achievements

Dr. Keskar is a member of the board of directors of the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT), an organization that serves as the official voice for the entire commercial transport aircraft secondary marketplace. Additionally, he is a board member for the U.S.-India Business Council, which operates under sponsorship of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Keskar has been an active member of Indian community organizations in the United States. he also serves on the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati.

Dr. Keskar was elected as a member of ISTAT’s Appraisers Board of Governors. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Indo-American Society.

In June 1999, Dr. Keskar was honored with the “Distinguished Alumni Award” by the University of Cincinnati for meritorious achievement, recognized stature and conspicuous success in the imaginative blending of engineering education with highly productive endeavors in industry. In September 2006, he received the Outstanding Achievement award from the American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin.