Dr. Dinesh A. Keskar
Senior Vice President, Sales & President Aircraft Trading, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
About the speaker:
Dr. Dinesh Keskar was appointed to senior vice president, Sales, and president of Boeing Aircraft Trading in February 2000. In this role, he was responsible for marketing all types of aircraft, owned by Boeing, to customers worldwide, and managed all commercial airplanes sales activities in India. Dr. Keskar was then appointed to senior vice president of Sales for South and Southeast Asia in August 2004 where 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 today, he served as president of Boeing Aircraft Trading until March 2005.
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.
Previously, 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.
Since he joined 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.
Before joining Boeing, Dr. Keskar worked as a research associate in the Flight Dynamics and Control Division at NASA Langley Research Center.
Dr. Keskar serves on several boards and organizations including the national board of directors of the American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin; the advisory board of the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati; the U.S.-India Business Council, which operates under sponsorship of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society; and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. From 2003 to 2007, he served as a member of the board of directors of the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading, an organization that serves as the official voice for the entire commercial transport aircraft secondary marketplace, and was a member of the executive committee of the Indo-American Society. Dr. Keskar remains an active member of Indian community organizations in the United States.
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.
Born on July 25, 1954, in Rajkot, India, Dr. Keskar received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from India 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. 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.
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