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Mr. Srinivas Bommidala
Chairman – Airports |
One of the first directors of the Group and has been a member of the Board since 1996, Srinivas Bommidala entered his family tobacco export business in 1982 and led the diversification into new businesses such as Aerated water bottling plants, etc. He was also in charge of international marketing and management of the organization.
Subsequently, he led the team as the Managing Director of GMR Power Corporation Limited for setting up the first Independent Power Project. Situated at Chennai in southern part of India this 200 MW project with slow speed diesel technology is the world’s largest diesel engine power plant under one roof. He was also instrumental in implementing the 388 MW combined cycle gas turbine power project in Andhra Pradesh.
When the Government of India decided to modernise and restructure New Delhi airport under a Public Private Partnership in 2006, he became the first Managing Director of this venture and successfully managed the transition process from a public owned entity to a public private partnership enterprise.
In 2007 he took over as the Chairman of Urban Infra & Highways Sector consisting of Highways, Special Economic Zone at Kakinada - Andhra Pradesh and Krishnagiri in Tamilnadu , Construction, Commercial Property Development at Delhi & Hyderabad Airports/ Aerotropolis and other Group Properties Businesses. Also he was the Chairman of GMR Sports which owns Delhi Dare Devils as IPL Franchisee.
Recently Srinivas Bommidala took over as the Chairman – Airports, which consists of Indira Gandhi International Airport ( Delhi), Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (Hyderabad), Sabiha Gokcen International Airport (Turkey) and Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (Male). GMR today is among the top five airport developers in the world. He will continue to spearhead Commercial Property Development / Aerotropolis at New Delhi and Hyderabad airports.
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