Teleporting the AirFreight Business Into the Stratosphere

Feb 18, 2025 35 Min Podcast

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From Passengers to Cargo: How Pete Chareonwongsak is Revolutionizing Airfreight at Teleport

This week on Transformation Talks, we're chatting with Pete Chareonwongsak: the visionary CEO of #Teleport, a subsidiary of Air Asia that's taken the airfreight world by storm! 

Get ready to hear the fascinating story of how Pete pivoted from passengers to cargo, the key ingredients that fuel Teleport's service excellence, and how he built a high-performance organisation that thrives on an entrepreneurial spirit.

We'll also unpack his experience transitioning from traditional point-to-point airfreight to a seamless end-to-end model, all while keeping customer values and performance at the forefront.

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Arul is currently an independent consultant working on improving the component level supply chain for a popular electric vehicle brand and also enabling the disruption of delivery services with cloud based technology solutions. He formerly was with GEODIS as the regional director of transformation and as the MD of GEODIS Malaysia. In GEODIS, he executed regional transformation initiatives with the Asia Pacific team to leapfrog disruption in the supply chain industry by creating customer value proposition, reliable services and providing accurate information to customers. He has driven transformation initiatives for government services and also assisted various Malaysian and Multi-National Organisations using the Lean Six Sigma methodology.

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Pete Chareonwongsak is CEO of Teleport where he spearheads the establishment and growth of a profitable air logistics company with the largest network in Southeast Asia. From 2012 to 2016, Pete was AirAsia Group Head of Business Development. In August 2016, he was tapped to be AirAsia Regional Chief Operating Officer, where he led the successful turnaround of AirAsia Philippines. Prior to AirAsia, Pete worked as an Investment Banking Analyst with CIMB, and as the official advisor to the Thailand Trade Representative office. Pete holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge, a Master’s Degree (ALM) in Finance from Harvard University.

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