Pratyush Kumar

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2018: Boeing’s India head Kumar to lead F-15 project in US

October 9, 2018: The Times of India

American aerospace major Boeing has selected its India president Pratyush Kumar to lead the F-15 fighter aircraft programme in the US. Kumar will focus on furthering the F-15 business in the US and globally.

“As Boeing’s senior in-country leader, Kumar has for over five years advanced Boeing’s activities in India across its three business units: Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Defense, Space and Security and Boeing Global Services, while building strong relationships with the government and the industry. Kumar led the India team to an exponential expansion of Boeing’s presence and business in India. During his tenure, Boeing launched a rapidly growing engineering and technology centre in Bangalore to drive innovation, scaled up its aerospace supply chain, established a joint venture in Hyderabad with Tata to manufacture fuselages for the Apache attack helicopter, established Boeing Defense India to serve customers locally and finalized sale of both Apache and Chinook helicopters to the Indian military,” Boeing said.

Boeing International president Marc Allen said: “I want to thank Prat Kumar for his enormous contribution to Boeing’s business in India and the development of a stronger aerospace industry ecosystem. He is exceptional leader who has demonstrated his ability to respond to global customers, and to empower his team to collaborate and deliver results. This appointment is a testament of our recognition of Prat’s ability to lead a team to success. We will be announcing his successor soon.”

Pratyush Kumar said: “I am excited as ever for the future of Boeing in India, and the significant investments we are making in India to establish our roots and build our future together. We will continue to expand our local manufacturing, our technology and innovations, our products and people.” added.” I am honoured and equally thrilled about my new role and hope to build a strong business momentum for the iconic F-15 program, around the world.”