Suresh Nair | General Manager - India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
AirAsia Berhad | Singapore

Suresh has more than 30 years of hard core airline top management experience in all areas of the Airline business. Presently he is the General Manager-India, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh for AirAsia involved in  the International operations of the airline in this region. He has been with AirAsia since 2009 with the start of Indian operations of the airline, playing a key role in starting operations to 9 stations in India for AirAsia.

Suresh was previously Vice President Commercial for the boutique airline-Paramount Airways. He started his airline career with Cathay Pacific as Manager-North India and Nepal moved on to take up the challenging role of General Manager-North India, Nepal and Pakistan for Jet Airways when Jet expanded from 1 online station in North India to 10 stations. He went on to set up the Delta Airways operation to Dubai in 2001.

Suresh is an expert in start-up airlines with a very special interest in Low Cost Airlines. He did his MBA from Cochin University School of Management Studies and then got a Chevening Scholarship to do Advanced Management at Manchester Business School. He is married to Sumi Nair and have 2 sons Gautam doing his Doctorate at Yale and Arjun working in Mexico.