Jehangir (Jeh) Wadia, MD, GoAir is a multi-faceted individual who dons varied responsibilities. Reminiscing about his career path briefly, Jeh Wadia initially went through a rota of training in The Bombay Dyeing & Mfg Co Ltd, Mumbai, and moved various positions when he was initially appointed Spinning Manager and Weaving Manager in the Textile Mills. From 1995 to 1997 he was General Manager for Exports and was given an additional responsibility of Production Planning & Control Systems where he introduced ERP, MRP and single point of customer contact (SPOCC)
From 1998 to 2001, he founded The Incubation Corporation which was setup to invest in startup companies both in India and the US, and had investors ranging from Ratan Tata to Rupert Murdoch, to name a few. He also conceptualized and helped in the implementation of Tatanova an internet service provider and horizontal website, now fully owned by the Tata Group.
Also during this time he founded Integrated Clinical Research Sciences (ICRS) which specializes in clinical research and clinical trials in India.
On the 24th of October 2002, he became the Deputy Managing Director of The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation based in Mumbai, India.
At this time he also authored and began restructuring the Wadia Group. Part of the restructuring involved looking at new financial and strategic investments for the group. One such financial investment was a JV with The Port Singapore Authority (PSA), and another example is GoAir a low cost airline in India, starting operations in October 2005. The strategic Investments have been in the financial services, retail and real estate arena. He has co-founded a Real Estate and Retail Fund along with other retail/real estate operating JV's and has also initiated the Institutionalization of Financial Services in the Wadia Group.
His tremendous drive and enthusiasm coupled with an innovative approach to doing business has resulted in the creation of successful companies providing considerable shareholder value.
In his free time, he works in a Volunteer organization called Deendayal Research Institute (DRI), under the leadership of Nanaji Deshmukh. DRI's core competence is to develop working models. Some of the models are of Health & Hygiene, Education, Entrepreneur training, Agriculture development and many more. DRI has adopted 2000 villages in Chitrakoot to make them totally self reliant using the various models. His dream is then to distribute the knowledge to 600,000 villages making them all self reliant in his life time.
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GoAir - The People's Airline will provide our passengers experienced service with a smile. Our management team has been selected from the best in the industry to ensure that we provide our passengers with Quality Service. Being a low cost carrier, we will never compromise on safety or security. This ensures our passengers that they are in safe hands and can fly hassle free. The GoAir team is not just professionally inclined but has been personally groomed to provide the best service. Our Pilots, Cabin Crew, Technical and maintenance staff have been carefully taken on keeping the industry standards in mind, thereby ensuring superior quality in all our services.
Welcome aboard GoAir - The People's Airline - to Experience the Difference !!!.
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