Anil Nair, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) L&K Saatchi & Saatchi has steps down from his position. He will remain with the agency as an advisor. He had joined the company in Jan 2009.
Category: Executive Movements
Manik Gupta, Uber’s Chief Product Officer to step down
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•Manik Gupta, Chief Product Officer (CPO) Uber, will step down from his position. He had joined the company in November 2015. As per a TechCrunch report, Gupta’s last day will be December 13. In his note to the team Manik mentioned, “After a few discussions with Dara as well as with my family—and now that…
Panacea Biotec announces changes in its top-level leadership
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•Panacea Biotec Limited, one of India’s leading Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Company, has announced key managerial appointments in its top-level leadership. Susheel Umesh has been appointed as Chief Executive – Domestic Formulations. He has an experience of over 27 years and has earlier been with Sanofi and Abbott. He was Managing Director, and General Manager –…
Anil Ambani has resigned from his position as Director of Reliance Communications
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•Anil Dhirubhai Ambani, Chairman of the Reliance Group (including, Reliance Communications, Reliance Capital, Reliance Infrastructure, and Reliance Power), has resigned from his position as Director of Reliance Communications, along with four others. Smt. Chhaya Virani, Smt. Ryna Karani, Smt. Manjari Kacker and Shri Suresh Rangachar have tendered their resignation from the office of Director. Also,…
Dr. Bina Modi Takes Over as New Chairperson of Modi Enterprises
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•Dr. Bina Modi, Head of the Family Council, Modi Enterprises, takes over as the new Chairperson of Modi Enterprises. She has served as a Board Member of Godfrey Phillips India Limited and is also on the CSR Committee of the Company. In a low key hand over, following the sudden death of Mr. KK Modi,…
Deepak Malhotra appointed as a Director on Azure Power Global’s Board
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•Azure Power, a leading solar power producer in India, announced that Deepak Malhotra, Director, Infrastructure, South Asia at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), was appointed to its Board of Directors, taking CDPQ’s total number of board seats to two. CDPQ, a long-term institutional investor that manages funds primarily for public and parapublic…
Nucleus Software appoints Prakash Purushottam Pai as Chief Evangelist Officer
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•Nucleus Software, the leading provider of lending and transaction banking solutions to the global financial services industry, has appointed Prakash Purushottam Pai as its Chief Evangelist Officer. As the Chief Evangelist Officer, Prakash will take on the responsibility of communicating effectively the unprecedented value of the company’s award winning solutions. He will play a key…
PeopleStrong appoints ex-Aon Hewitt CEO Sandeep Chaudhary as President
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•PeopleStrong has appointed Sandeep Chaudhary, former CEO of Aon Hewitt, as President and member of the board for PeopleStrong. PeopleStrong is a leading Enterprise Work Technology company from India, that is enriching experience at work for over 250+ customers and over 750,000 users globally and was founded in 2006 by Pankaj Bansal. Sandeep will be…
Google appoints Sanjay Gupta as Country Manager & VP of Sales & Operations, India
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•Google has appointed Sanjay Gupta as Country Manager & VP of Sales & Operations, for India region. Mr Gupta takes over from Rajan Anandan, who left Google in April. Mr Gupta was former managing director of Star and Disney India before being appointed as Country Manager. His role will be contributing to Google’s efforts to…
Darshana Pandya appointed CEO of MAS Financial Services
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•Mrs. Darshana Pandya has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and member of the board for MAS Financial. Mrs. Pandya has been with MAS Financial for the past 23 years. The Board of Directors at its meeting held on 6th November, 2019, appointed and promoted Mrs. Darshana Pandya as Chief Executive Officer of the…
Mindtree CFO Pradip Menon quits.
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•Pradip Kumar Menon has tendered his resignation as the Chief Financial Officer of Mindtree. He was Sr. VP & CFO at Mindtree since October 2018. He was appointed at Mindtree in September 2018, after the post had been left vacant post the exit of the earlier CFO, Jagannathan Chakravarthi in July 2018. Pradip is a…
Sonata Software appoints Jagannathan Chakravarthi as CFO
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•Sonata Software has announced the appointment of Jagannathan Chakravarthi as Chief Financial Officer of the Company w.e.f. 30th October, 2019. The CFO position at Sonata, was left vacant after the exit of Prasanna Oke, who had separated from the company in June 2019, to join a technology Fund, Basil Technology Partners. Jagannathan is a graduate…
McDonald’s Global Chief People Officer quits.
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•McDonald’s Global CPO, David Fairhurst has quit. His departure follows the exit of CEO Steve Easterbrook. Over the weekend, McDonald’s had announced the separation of Steve as CEO, for having a consensual relationship with an employee which was in violation of a company policy. As per a Bloomberg report, Fairhurst’s separation was announced in an…
Flipkart CHRO quits
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•Smriti Singh, SVP and CHRO for e-commerce major Flipkart has quit. Her separation comes after an almost one year stint with the company. She had joined the company end of 2018. It is learnt that the news of her separation has been announced in an internal communication by CEO Krishnamurthy. She took charge at a…
Leadership Transition at McDonald’s Corp. New CEO appointed.
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•Chris Kempczinski appointed as President and CEO and elected to the McDonald’s Board of Directors.McDonald’s Corporation has announced Chris Kempczinski, most recently President, McDonald’s USA, as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Kempczinski has also been elected to the McDonald’s Board of Directors. Chris succeeds Steve Easterbrook, who had to separate from the company for violating…