"Vijay Mallya has been appointed as managing director of the company and designated as chairman and CEO," Kingfisher Airlines said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

The board of directors of Kingfisher Airlines at its meeting on Wednesday, approved the said appointments and has also accepted the resignation of G R Gopinath's from his executive position as managing director of the company and accepted his continuation as the non-executive director and vice chairman.

Meanwhile, the resignations of Jayanth K Poovaiah, N S Narahari, S N Ladhani, P N Thirunarayana, Bala Deshpande and Hitesh Patel as Directors of the company were also noted, the filing added.

Piyush Mankad, Diwan Arun Nanda, Naresh Trehan and G N Bajpai were co-opted as additional directors on the company's board to hold office until the ensuing annual general meeting.

Besides, K J Samuel's resignation from his executive position as executive director and continuation as non-executive director of the company was noted and approved and A Raghunathan has been designated as the chief financial officer in place of Ramki Sundaram.