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Rakesh Gangwal was named chairman, president and chief executive officer of Worldspan in 2003 and at the same time was appointed to the Company�s board of directors.
Gangwal has held various positions with several major corporations in the areas of air travel, travel distribution and management, corporate strategy, finance, operations and engineering.
From 1998 to 2001, Gangwal served as president and chief executive officer of US Airways Group. Gangwal joined US Airways in February 1996 as president and chief operating officer, at which time he was also appointed to the board of directors of both US Airways, Inc. and US Airways Group.
From 1994 to 1996, Gangwal served as executive vice president Planning and Development for Air France. From 1984 until his appointment at Air France, Gangwal worked at United Airlines serving in a variety of capacities including senior vice president of Planning, vice president of Financial Planning and Analysis, vice president of Revenue Management and vice president of Flight Administration.
Gangwal�s association with the travel industry commenced in 1980 when he worked with United Airlines as a management consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. Before joining United Airlines, Gangwal was with the financial planning and analysis group of Ford Motor Company, and earlier in his career, he was a production and planning engineer with Philips India, Ltd., a subsidiary of N.V. Philips.
Gangwal currently serves on the OfficeMax Incorporated board of directors and is also a member of the board of directors of PetSmart, Inc. He was a board member of the Boise Cascade Corporation prior to its spin-off of OfficeMax Incorporated, and is also a past board member of the Air Transport Association (ATA) and the Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO). In addition, Gangwal was a member of the board of trustees for both Providence St. Mel School in Chicago and Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove, Illinois. In 1999, BusinessWeek recognized Gangwal as one of 1998�s 25 top global executives. In 2000, he received the prestigious Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
He holds a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India. | 