Top manager overseeing airport makeover resigns

Mumbai: Rudy Vercelli, the Italian-American Chief Operating Officer of Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL) who promised to transform Mumbai airport, has quit the job hardly a year-and-a-half after he took it up and moved to Abu Dhabi.
After he had taken over the Mumbai challenge in 2006, Vercelli had said he would strive to make the airport India’s gateway to the world.
His departure, however, was very quiet, if not intriguing and became public today almost a week after Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) announced that Vercelli was leaving MIAL — a joint venture between the GVK-SA consortium and Airports Authority of India — to join them as CEO.
An MIAL spokesman merely said that Vercelli moved out for “personal reasons”. Asked if the firm would replace him, he said, “The portfolio handled by Vercelli will be distributed among the senior management of the company. So presently we are not looking at getting somebody to replace him.”
Neither Vercelli nor MIAL MD G V Sanjay Reddy was available for comment. Vercelli was involved in the day-to-day operations of the company and also headed the future project planning at MIAL.
12/03/08 Swarup Chakraborty/Mumbai Newsline

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