Jhunjhunwala-backed Akasa hires former IndiGo executive Ankur Goel as CFO

Akasa, the airline founded by former Jet Airways CEO Vinay Dube, has hired Ankur Goel, former head of IndiGo’s treasury and investor relations, as its Chief Financial Officer.

The airline, backed by ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and which has former IndiGo president Aditya Ghosh on board, is in final negotiations with aircraft manufacturer Boeing for an order of up to 100 737 Max jets. It aims to start operations by summer of 2022.

Goel, with over 16 years of experience in various fields of finance, was a core member of the team that led IndiGo’s public listing in 2015 raising Rs 3,000 crore followed by a Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP) in 2017, which raised around Rs 4,000 crore.