Overview
On 15 April 2014,[44] Vistara chose Phee Teik Yeoh as the chief executive officer (CEO) and Giam Ming Toh as the chief commercial officer (CCO), both from Singapore Airlines.[45]
In March 2015, Vistara relocated to its new office at the One Horizon Center tower in Sector 43, Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi.[46][47] It initially started out with a three-member board comprising Swee Wah Mak (SIA group), Mukund Rajan, and Prasad Menon (Tata group), with the latter as chairman.[48][49] In August 2015, the airline expanded the board by introducing two new members—Som Mittal and Sangeeta Pendurkar—along with an equity infusion of inr 2000000000, part of a inr 5000000000 tranche initially planned by both Tata and SIA.[50][51] In January 2016, Bhaskar Bhat, present managing director of Titan, joined as the new chairman following Prasad Menon's retirement.[52][53][54] In March 2016, Vistara appointed Sanjiv Kapoor as its chief strategy and commercial officer as the successor to Giam Ming Toh who was scheduled to leave in mid-April 2016 following completion of his deputation at Vistara.[55]
On 16 October 2017, it was announced that Leslie Thng would succeed Yeoh Phee Teik as CEO of Vistara.[56] Yeoh returned to Singapore Airlines to take up a senior management role as Acting Senior Vice President of Customer Experience.[57] Thng was serving as Chief Commercial Officer of Budget Aviation Holdings, a Singapore Airlines subsidiary, prior to his appointment in Vistara.[58] Before that, Thng was the chief executive officer of SilkAir, a full-service regional airline under Singapore Airlines.[59] Sanjiv Kapoor resigned from his position as the Chief Commercial Officer of Vistara, on 31 December 2019, with Vinod Kannan, the Chief Strategy Officer, taking up Kapoor's responsibilities.[60]
At the time of its merger with Air India, Vistara's head office was located at Tower A of Intellion Edge in Gurgaon.[61]
