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Akasa Air Appoints Ex-Dish TV Executive Abhishek Gupta as CIO
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News18•22-09-2026, 10:15
Akasa Air Appoints Ex-Dish TV Executive Abhishek Gupta as CIO
- •Akasa Air has named Abhishek Gupta as its new Chief Information Officer (CIO), following his departure from Dish TV.
- •Gupta previously served as Corporate Head of IT at Dish TV, where he led IT modernization, cloud adoption, and digital transformation initiatives.
- •His responsibilities at Dish TV included deploying AI and technology infrastructure to support digital operations.
- •With over two decades of experience, Gupta has held technology and management roles at Orange Business Services and Ericsson.
- •Gupta holds an engineering degree from Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
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Akasa Air has appointed former Dish TV executive Abhishek Gupta as its new Chief Information Officer (CIO).
Abhishek Gupta previously served as the Corporate Head of IT at Dish TV, a position he held after being elevated from Vice President of IT in 2019.
Gupta holds an engineering degree from the Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A). His early career included roles at Ericsson and Orange Business Services, where he was the Head of Corporate IT for the India division.
