IndiGo appoints Venkataramani Sumantran as independent director

NEW DELHI : Venkataramani Sumantran, the chairman and managing director of Chennai-based Celeris Technologies, has been appointed the independent director of IndiGo, the airline said on Friday.

Sumantran will hold the post for the next five years.

He serves as an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is on several statutory and advisory boards in India, Europe and the US, it said.

“Dr. Sumantran, with a rich experience of over 35 years having worked in the USA, Europe and Asia, has been an industry leader, technocrat, academic and author,” the airline said in a press release.