Leadership
AIonOS Appoints MakeMyTrip Veteran Parikshit Choudhury to Lead Global Travel and Hospitality Practice
By News Desk ·
Key takeaways
- Parikshit Choudhury joins AIonOS as Global Head of its Travel and Hospitality Practice and a member of the Executive Leadership Team.
- Choudhury spent more than a decade at MakeMyTrip Group, where he built ibibo Hotels and led the MakeMyTrip and Goibibo hotel integration.
- CEO CP Gurnani said travel and hospitality are among AIonOS's core industries and that Choudhury understands the sector's operations first-hand.
AIonOS has appointed Parikshit Choudhury as Global Head of its Travel and Hospitality Practice and a member of its Executive Leadership Team, the company said in a Tribune report on November 4, 2026. Choudhury joins from MakeMyTrip Group with more than two decades of experience across travel, hospitality, technology and consumer services.
Choudhury's Mandate at AIonOS
In the role, Choudhury has global responsibility for building and scaling the practice and delivering AI-led enterprise solutions to hotels, airlines, airports, cruise lines and travel enterprises. At MakeMyTrip Group, where he spent more than a decade on the leadership team, he led businesses across hotels, homestays, ground transport, B2B travel distribution and customer experience. He built ibibo Hotels, led the integration of the MakeMyTrip and Goibibo hotel businesses, scaled the myPartner travel agent network and led the AI-driven transformation of customer experience across MakeMyTrip and Goibibo. Earlier, he held leadership roles at GE Capital, MRF Tyres and Times Internet (Magicbricks).
CP Gurnani, Co-Founder and CEO of AIonOS, said: "Travel and hospitality are amongst our core industries, and Parikshit has built and scaled large travel businesses and understands the sector's operations first-hand." Choudhury said his priority is to help clients "move from AI pilots to impact at scale" and to lead the next phase of the practice's growth globally. He holds a Master's degree in Economics from University of Calcutta and an MBA from ITM Group of institutions.
AIonOS's Travel and Hospitality Footprint
AIonOS was founded in 2024 as a joint venture between InterGlobe Enterprises and Assago Group, according to akta.pro company records. The same records describe a workforce of 2,500+ AI engineers, domain specialists and practitioners across Aviation, Travel & Hospitality, Logistics, Telecom, BFSI and Healthcare. In October 2025, AIonOS signed a strategic deal with Adani Airport Holdings Limited to deploy multi-lingual omni-channel agentic AI across Indian airports using the UniStack platform.
Earlier Leadership and Partnership Moves
AIonOS appointed Hemant Lamba as Chief Business Officer in October 2026, giving him global responsibility for growth and business strategy, The Tribune reported. In June 2026, Black Box Ltd, a digital infrastructure integrator under Essar Group, entered into a strategic alliance with AIonOS, The Hindu reported. Business Standard reported the same month that Black Box, the digital infrastructure business of Essar Group listed on Indian stock exchanges, announced a strategic collaboration with AIonOS to help enterprises accelerate AI transformation.