IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, has announced Deepak Mathur as Director of the IEEE Asia-Pacific Region for the year 2021-2022. The IEEE Region 10 represents the largest and most diverse geographical area for IEEE containing 26 countries with 59 geographical sections consisting of 122,000 members. This is…
Chobani, a food and beverage startup, has announced that veteran CNN and Bloomberg Television correspondent Cristina Alesci will serve as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, effective immediately. Alesci will also join Chobani’s Executive Leadership team. Alesci will report to Chobani President & COO Peter McGuinness in her new role, leading external and internal communications, government and…
Novotech Health Holdings, the largest biotech specialist contract research organization (CRO) in Asia, announced the appointment of Zidong Zhang as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective 4 January 2021. In his new role, Zidong Zhang will be responsible for all aspects of financial management and work closely with Novotech Holdings’ executive team to support the growth…
Borr Drilling Limited, an international drilling contractor to the oil and gas industry, announced the appointment of Magnus Vaaler as its new Chief Financial Officer, replacing Christoph Bausch with effect from 28 December 2020. Commenting on the appointment, Patrick Schorn, Chief Executive Officer, said: “I am pleased to announce Magnus as the new Chief Financial…
Tarun Dangi has moved on from Angel Broking and has joined Kotak Securities as VP-IT Software. In his new role, Dangi will focus on designing & developing high-performance microservices by leveraging C++, golang, and other cutting-edge open source real-time streaming technologies. “Going forward my strategy will be around the design and development of high performing…
Christian Heubner will be taking over the management of ŠKODA AUTO’s global product communication on 1 January 2021. In this position, he will be responsible for the communication of all topics in the areas of technology, products and motorsport. He will report to Jens Katemann, Head of Communication at ŠKODA AUTO. Christian Heubner joined the…
Nokia announced the appointment of Nishant Batra, a proven technology leader with broad global experience, as Chief Strategy and Technology Officer and member of the Group Leadership team, effective from January 18, 2021. Nishant joins Nokia from Veoneer in Sweden, a worldwide leader in automotive technology, where he was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology…
Finway FSC, a fintech company that deals in retail lending space primarily in Unsecure and Secure loan, has announced the appointment of Amit Sharma as Director of Insurance. In this role, Sharma will be heading the Insurance department that deals in various insurances – Life, General and Health, said a statement. Commenting on the appointment,…
Volkswagen India said it has appointed Vishal Bhat as the head of after-sales service from January 1, according to PTI report. Bhat is currently serving as head of corporate and pre-owned car sales at Volkswagen, the company said in a release. He would be taking over the responsibility from P Ravichandran, who is now responsible…
Ramkumar Ramamoorthy, former Chairman and Managing Director of Cognizant (India), will join the leadership team of Krea University in January 2021 as its first Pro Vice-Chancellor, responsible for Professional Learning. In this role as Pro Vice-Chancellor of Professional Learning, Ramkumar will help drive the mission and long-term strategy of all professional programs—spanning Masters in Business Administration,…
Eagle Alpha has announced that Niall Hurley, former Head of Business Development at Eagle Alpha will be assuming the position of CEO. In addition, Natalie Aitken, who recently came to Eagle Alpha from a data vendor, App Annie, has been appointed Head of Business Development taking over the helm from Niall Hurley. Niall has over twenty years of experience…
Flipkart has reshuffled its board as it prepares to go public in the upcoming years. The Walmart-owned company has added Flipkart Group CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy along with HDFC CEO and Vice Chairman Keki Mistry to the board. Walmart directors – Suresh Kumar, global CTO & Chief Development Officer with Leigh Hopkins, Executive Vice President of…
Codeyoung, an Edtech startup based in Bangalore, has appointed Mohit Khandelwal as Chief Growth Officer, as per ET report. In his new role, Khandelwal would be responsible for driving growth through a mix of linear and nonlinear initiatives and would work closely with the founders to help the organization scale from x to 10x in…
Brand for complete home interior design – Livspace has named Saurabh Agrawal as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to his appointment at Livspace, Saurabh was one of the founder of an e-health platform Medlife.com. The platform was recently merged with health-tech startup Pharmeasy. Speaking on his appointment, he said – “With a large number of people…
YES Securities, a wholly owned subsidiary of YES Bank Ltd., has announced the elevation of Prasanth Prabhakaran as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD & CEO) of YES Securities, effective immediately. Most recently, Prabhakaran was the Joint MD & CEO, YES Securities, where he was spearheading the Wealth Broking & Investment Advisory and…