Achiever's Success Story
“Mr. Suresh Perumpilavil Menon, Director And Head Innovation Amadeus Software Labs”
Suresh Menon is a highly accomplished professional with over 33 years of combined experience in the Airlines, Airports, Transportation and Hospitality industry across various management and technology consulting roles. At Amadeus, Suresh is Director & Heads the Innovation, and Intellectual Property & Patents. He has been very successful in envisioning executing Innovation led Ideathons, Hackathons and thus creating Intellectual Property and Patents at Amadeus. Under his leadership Amadeus Bangalore contributes 21% of IP & P filed globally.
Before Amadeus, Suresh has worked with Airlines and Tech giants like Perot Systems TSI, Kenya Airways, Lufthansa, Finn air and Dell Technologies and has led teams across geographies.
He has garnered a rich business experience while working in diverse functions such as Revenue Accounting & Management, Commercial, eCommerce, Passenger, Cargo, Flight Operations, Strategy Planning, Airport Operations, and Airline Network Development.
Suresh has travelled to 158 countries in this world and lived on 6 different continents during his career over the last 33 years.
In 1998, he joined a Malaysia based Airline as its Country Manager for the Indian Subcontinent where his efforts were recognized in the Indian aviation sector for bringing in the first international scheduled cargo operator into India. He helped set – up the operations in Sri Lanka as well.
In 2000 he worked with Kenya Airways as Business Process Re –Engineering Program Manager, driving the airlines Automation and Digital Transformation, following which he worked with Lufthansa and Continental in their transformations as well.
Since 2003, he has been associated with several global technology companies in different leadership roles driving business growth, P&L management, solutions delivery and innovation to the Airlines industry. Suresh’s experience encompasses the complete life cycle implementation in several key airlines and airport solutions.
Some of his key experiences have been in the implementation of state of art Customer Experience management solution, Business Intelligence and Analytic, Cargo solutions, Weight and Balance solution, Passenger Services System, and Airport Solutions etc.
Suresh considers Airport implementation, Altéa implementation, business intelligence, airline CRM and development of a slew of innovative solutions as his core specialization as his experience encompass complete life cycle implementation in several key airlines and airport solutions.
Suresh is a wildlife photography enthusiast and enjoys playing Golf, listening to music, travelling and cooking during his time off.Being a Rotarian, he has been contributing to the society for long and has been working with NOGO’s sponsoring well deserved children for their school fees since 2014.