Originally Posted by
Eric Janson
He may hold Qatari citizenship but he was born in Mumbai and educated in India.
Yup - an international company I had dealings with had to do a due diligence on everyone involved in an acquisition and that came up in the background check.
It explains a lot of his behaviour - he had to 'out-Qatari' every Qatari as if he ever gave way on anything, or acted reasonably and balanced, then a Qatari would claim that if he had been a real Qatari, then he wouldnt have 'given in'. Even in private I have witnessed him being staggeringly arrogant and rude with very senior executives in the aviation industry - particularly when he calls a meeting over 'our problems' only to be shown that the fault lay with QA. One particularly memorable episode involved his team shipping a large component from Doha QA stores to the USA, only to find they didnt send any of ther rigs or the tooling and that the component had been cannibalised and was unuseable. Of course, this was still 'our fault'. Never one to let reality get in the way of a deflection and passing blame on to others.
That said, he built a good airline on the face of it, but once under the skin, you realise its the same middle eastern service rubbish