InterGlobe Enterprises on Monday announced the appointment of Aditya Pande as its group chief executive officer with effect from March 1.

“With the exception of IndiGo, Aditya will have overall responsibility for setting InterGlobe’s strategic agenda and to oversee and continue to strengthen the leadership of the company’s line businesses and the corporate staff functions,” a release said.

Aditya will report to Rahul Bhatia, and all the existing senior employees would, in turn, report to Aditya, the firm said.

“This move by InterGlobe is to strengthen its current leadership team as it moves ahead with its ambitious and diversified global plans,” the release added.

InterGlobe Enterprises’s business spans hospitality, logistics, airline management, travel commerce, pilot training, and aircraft maintenance engineering. The company employs more than 58,000 professionals.

In November, InterGlobe Enterprises signed an agreement with California-based Archer Aviation to launch an electric air taxi business in India.

The proposed partnership envisions working closely with in-country business partners to manage Archer’s aircraft, develop vertiport infrastructure, and train the necessary personnel, including pilots, for seamless operations.

Aditya was the chief financial officer at udaan, India’s largest B2B e-commerce company. Prior to this, he worked at IndiGo, General Electric, and Arthur Andersen.

Pande had previously worked with InterGlobe Enterprises’ subsidiary InterGlobe Aviation Ltd, which runs IndiGo, where he was CFO from August 2019 to February 2021.