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India’s biopharmaceutical company, Biocon, has appointed Agnidipta Sarkar as Group CISO. Sarkar has moved on from CMS IT services where he has served his tenure of two years as Director Cybersecurity. In this new role, Sarkar will be leading the cybersecurity and risk management domains at the biopharmaceutical company. Sarkar has 3 decades of experience…
India’s edtech major Byju’s is acquiring Aakash Educational Services Ltd. in an estimated $950-million cash-and-stock deal, according to ET report. “Post the transaction, Blackstone Group and Aakash Institute’s founders will hold a minority stake in Byju’s at a valuation of about $13 billion, founder Byju Raveendran said. “We will integrate Aakash’s expertise in test prep…
Tata Consultancy Services, a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has won two awards at the 2021 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards. TCS Optunique, its AI-powered enterprise personalization solution, was named the Best Theory of Mind Machine Learning Product while TCS Optumera, its AI-powered retail optimization suite was declared the Best Self Aware…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, Peak, is expanding its team and software services across India, with offices based in Jaipur and Pune. Peak offers AI software across retail, manufacturing and consumer packaged goods, enabling businesses to embed AI at the centre of all commercial decision making, resulting in high-profitability and improved efficiency. Peak’s AI software allows…
Nucleus Software, the leading provider of lending and transaction banking products to the global financial services industry, has appointed Parag Bhise as the Chief Executive Officer, effective 1st April 2021. Bhise succeeds the outgoing CEO, RP Singh, who retired after a career spanning 35 years with Nucleus Software. “Nucleus Software witnessed the beginning of the…
Cox Enterprises announced that Patrick Waite has been named vice president of Audit Services for Cox Enterprises, effective April 5. Previously, he was the executive director of process improvement in Cox Communications Operations. In this new role, Waite will work with boundary partners across the Cox family of companies to ensure alignment and partnership to…
SuperBottoms, a Mumbai-based startup that manufactures eco-friendly baby products, has received $2 million in Series A funding from Saama Capital and DSG Consumer Partners. Founded in 2016 by Pallavi Utagi, SuperBottoms sells reusable cloth diapers for babies. It claims to sell more than 30,000 diapers on a monthly basis through its own website and other…
Mahindra Group has roped in Asha Kharga as chief customer and brand officer, effective immediately. Prior to this, Kharga was the executive vice president and group chief marketing officer at Axis Bank, where she was responsible for creating and implementing marketing strategies that led to increased awareness, consideration and brand trust. She had an eight…
ixamBee, a leading online learning platform, providing best-in-class technology-based learning solutions for competitive exams, onboarded Dr. Sanjeev Sharma, former Regional Director RBI as Senior Advisory – Career Guidance. He is also a visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad where he has taught Corporate Communication. With the inclusion of Dr. Sanjeev Sharma, ixamBee aims to groom the…
GAIL announced it has plans to invest in startups operating in Focus Areas, which mainly includes natural gas, petrochemicals ,energy, project management, bio-manure marketing, Nano materials, IoT, data mining, environment, health and social. Pankh was launched in 2017 with an aim to invest in promising Start-ups. Till now, it has made investments in 28 Start-Ups…
Socio-technologist, Dr. Chintan Vaishnav, has been appointed the new Mission Director for Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), a flagship initiative of the Government of India under the auspices of NITI Aayog. “He is taking over the charge from Mr Ramanathan Ramanan, seconded by Tata Consultancy Services to NITI Aayog, who had been leading AIM as its…
Former CTO of jewellery retailer Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri, Pooraan Jaiswal, has joined Entero Healthcare as the Chief Information Officer. He will report to Prem Sethi, COO of Entero Healthcare. Entero Healthcare is a Mumbai-based startup that focuses on the healthcare industry’s supply chain. The company has a pan India distribution network, servicing more than 50,000…
The WhiteSpace Health board of directors has announced the appointment of Gautam Char to the role of president and CEO. A seasoned business leader skilled in health information technology and revenue cycle management, Char has a wealth of experience bringing products to market and rapidly growing companies, the statement said. “He is known for building…
Subhash Kumar, the finance chief at ONGC, has taken additional charge of the Chairman and managing director at the company, according to ET Bureau report. Kumar replaces Shashi Shanker who retired from the role. Kumar, a cost accountant by training, has taken up various roles in the oil and gas industry in the last 36…
Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Peter Drucker Society Europe have announced the launch of a strategic partnership in which PMI President and CEO Sunil Prashara will join the Drucker Society International Advisory Board. The Peter Drucker Society Europe is a non-profit organization that seeks to advance a critical, international dialogue between management practitioners, academics,…