Amazon recently announced that it has hired streaming and TV veteran Mike Hopkins to lead its video entertainment business like Prime Video and Amazon Studios. Hopkins was earlier working with Sony as Chairman of Sony Pictures Television. His appointment will come in effect from February 24. Hopkins will directly report to the Amazon founder and…
Tech giant Google on Monday confirmed that its Head of People Operations or Head of HR Eileen Naughton is stepping down from her position. This comes after Eileen spent years mediating issues between the management and the employees due to the rise in employee activism. She will be stepping down from her position as the…
Makor Group, an international agency brokerage group trading cash equities, fixed income, FX and derivative products, has announced its hire of Talal Dehbi, who will be joining the European Derivatives Team as a Managing Director, based in the firm’s London office. Dehbi brings with him extensive experience trading derivative products, having particularly focuses on hedging,…
Avendus Wealth Management, an Avendus Group company announced the appointment of Nitin Singh as Managing Director and CEO, with effect from February 3, 2020. Nitin has a dual line reporting to Kaushal Aggarwal and Gaurav Deepak, Co-founders and MDs, Avendus Capital. Nitin is also part of the Executive Committee which is the strategic think tank…
Jumo Health, a global provider of age appropriate, personalized health care resources, announced that it has appointed Raymond N. Altieri as its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Jumo Health, Altieri served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at BlueCrest, a Platinum Equity portfolio company that formed as a result…
Anand Thakur has been appointed as Group CTO of Elara Technologies. Purple Quarter, a Bangalore-based Tech head search firm, announced that they have facilitated the closure of the position of Group CTO – Elara Technologies, the country’s only full-stack real estate technology platform that owns Housing.com, Makaan.com and Proptiger.com. Previously, Anand headed the Digital vertical…
HDFC Bank, a large private sector lender, announced the appointment of Anjani Rathor as Chief Digital Officer. Anjani replaces Nitin Chugh, who has moved to Ujjivan Small Finance Bank as CEO. Aditya Puri, Managing Director, HDFC Bank commented on the appointment. He said Rathor’s impeccable credentials and proven leadership abilities will make him an excellent addition…
Shilpa Bhatia, a former SpiceJet executive has recently announced that she will be rejoining the company as its Chief Commercial Officer, after a five-month brief stint with IndiGo. SpiceJet through a press release announced her comeback and also said that “this is Shilpa’s third stint with SpiceJet.” Shilpa joined IndiGo in August 2019 after quitting…
Purple Quarter, a Bangalore-based Tech head search firm, announced the closure of Chief Technology and Product Officer for ACKO, India’s growing digital-first general insurance company that leverages data and analytics to provide highly personalised, low-cost insurance products. With 15+ patents in mail, IM, Communication and search system design, Vishwanath Ramarao was VP & CTO with…
Founder Gyanesh Chaudhary to remain MD and focus on new ventures. Leading solar rooftop solutions provider, Vikram Solar recently announced that the company has appointed industry veteran Saibaba Vutukuri as Chief Executive Officer. In an official press release, the company said, “This announcement comes in at an important juncture, marking the next phase of growth…
Tulsa Winch Group, a Dover company, announced the appointment of Arjun Mirdha as President, effective January 6, 2020. He will report to Dover’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard J. Tobin. Arjun will focus on expanding TWG’s broad portfolio of market-leading products globally. Arjun has over 24 years of global commercial and P&L leadership experience…
Algeco Group, the leading modular space leasing business in Europe and Asia Pacific, has announced that Mark Higson has joined the group as its new Chief Executive Officer. Algeco has also announced that Bruce Melizan, Chief Operating Officer, left the business on 31 January 2020. Mark was most recently the Managing Director of Wolseley UK, a…
HSBC Holdings plc. has announced changes to its senior management team as a part of reorganization focused on positioning the Group for the next phase of its growth. Stephen Moss will be appointed Regional Chief Executive, with responsibility for Europe (ex-HBUK), the Middle East, Latin America, and Canada with effect from 1 March 2020. In…
Brown-Forman Corporation, one of the largest American owned spirits and wine companies in the world and the owners of world’s best-selling whiskey Jack Daniel’s, has announced a new business head for IMENA (India, Middle East and North Africa) region. Siddharth Wadia, who was till recently Country Director – India Region, has been elevated to the…
Recently Jeff Weiner, announced his exit from CEO role at LinkedIn after a 11 years stint. He will move on to be the Executive Chairman of the company effective June 1, 2020. The CEO position will be taken over by Ryan Roslansky, presently global head of product for the platform. Ryan is designated as Senior…