Dinesh Keskar

Dinesh Keskar (born 25 July 1954) is senior vice president of sales in Asia-Pacific and India at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Early life Keskar was born in 1954 in Rajkot, India. His father was a teacher at the Dharmendra Singhji College, while his grandfather was a renowned academician and statistician. He is the second-born in his family and have two brothers; Nalini and Achyut. When Keskar was five, his family move to Amravati, Maharashtra where he and his brothers learned Marathi language.

Education At the Manibai Gujarati High School, Amravati, from which Keskar graduated after completing 8th grade, he was the top merit student. Upon completion, his father bought him a scooter before he died in a car accident in Mumbai. While employed by Boeing, he received his Master's of Business Administration from City University of Seattle in 1987 and attended the Berkeley Executive Program at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994.

From 1987 to 1995, Keskar was a director of International Sales, where he managed Boeing's airplane sales in India, and was responsible for managing negotiations between Boeing and government-operated Air India and Indian Airlines. From 1995 to 2000, Keskar served as president of Boeing India and since that year forward, was vice president for Sales and president of its Aircraft Trading. Until 2005, while serving on those posts, he was responsible for marketing of all types of aircraft, owned by Boeing, to customers worldwide.