Coca-Cola has appointed Asha Sekhar as its Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, India and South West Asia. In this newly created leadership role, which focuses on the company’s journey towards digital transformation, Asha will build foundations necessary for business growth, drive opportunities and strengthen Coca-Cola India’s digital ecosystem. Announcing the elevation, T Krishnakumar, President, Coca-Cola India & South…
Facebook has named Ajit Mohan as their Vice president and Managing Director for India. He has been the the Chief Executive Officer of Hotstar, the popular online streaming platform of Star network. At Facebook, Mohan will be responsible for aligning teams and driving Facebook’s overall strategy in India. He will be reporting to David Fischer, Vice-President…
The US-based IT firm Cognizant, on Monday, announced that the company’s Board has elected Michael Patsalos-Fox as its new Chairman. Patsalos-Fox, 65, succeeds John E Klein, who has served as Chairman for nearly 15 years and will remain a Board member. Prior to his new role, Patsalos-Fox was working with Finance, Management Development and Compensation, and…
The State Bank of India (SBI), the largest lender of the country has announced Prashant Kumar as their Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In 1983, Kumar joined SBI as Probationary Officer and since then he has held various important positions in Bank. Kumar is a Science graduate, he also pursued Law from Delhi University. He has diverse experience in various areas of banking…
Andersen Global named the members of the European Regional Board of Directors. This regional board will advise the global organization on issues critical to the continent to ensure that the group is working in a seamless way across the different countries of the region, practice areas, industries and also on the management of common protocols.…
Infogain, a Silicon Valley leading provider of technology solutions and services has appointed Kulesh Bansal as Chief Financial Officer. Based out of Infogain’s Noida, India office and reporting to CEO Sunil Bhatia, Bansal will lead Infogain’s finance and legal functions, in addition to focusing on profitability, financial controls, pricing and deal support. Bansal is a…
The board of HDFC Life has announced Vibha Padalkar as its new Managing Director and CEO for a period of three years effective from today. She was earlier serving as the firm’s Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer. This comes after the resignation of current CEO Amitabh Chaudhry on September 8 to join Axis Bank as…
AkzoNobel India Limited (ANIL) has announced the appointment of Rajiv Rajgopal as the Managing Director of the company, effective from November 1, 2018. Rajiv has been with AkzoNobel since 2013, and most recently he was the Regional Director – Middle East & Africa based in Dubai. Earlier, he has held the position of Director – Decorative…
Axis Bank has announced the appointment of Amitabh Chaudhry as CEO & MD. He will take over from Shikha Sharma, and his appointment is for 3 years effective January 1, 2019. Shikha Sharma will remit her position on December 31, 2018. In its release to BSE, Axis Bank announced – “We wish to inform you…
Alibaba’s co-founder and executive chairman, Jack Ma will retire from the e-commerce giant he founded in 1999, according to New York Times. He plans to pursue philanthropy in education post his retirement. Jack Ma, was a former English teacher at the Hangzhou Institute of Electrical Engineering and has always been known to his commitment to…
Tesla Inc., is facing the exit of its two senior executives. The news of exit of these executives comes while we have been seeing the video of Elon Musk smoking marijuana during an interview. The interview was streamed live online. As per Bloomberg reports, Tesla’s Chief People Officer, Gaby Toledano, who had joined in May 2017…
SBI Mutual Fund has appointed Ashwani Bhatia as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. He takes over from Anuradha Rao who would be getting back to State Bank of India as Deputy MD. Before joining SBI Funds Management Private Limited, he was Chief General Manager (Officer on Special Duty), Corporate Centre in SBI, Mumbai (February 2018–…
Updated: 20th September: Reliance Jio has announced the appointment of Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar, as the CTO for Mobility business. This update is based on an internal communication released by Jio announcing the appointment. Our Earlier Coverage: Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar, ex Airtel, is expected to join as Group Chief Technology Officer for Reliance Jio*. This position was…
Taranjeet Singh, Country Director, Twitter India has decided to step down from the company. Balaji Krish the company’s global head of revenue strategy and operations has been named as the interim country head. Before joining Twitter, he was Sales Director, South Asia for BBC Advertising and handled the commercial operations for BBC News. Earlier he…
WPP has announced the appointment of Mark Read as Chief Executive Officer and his appointment to the Board of WPP as an Executive Director.Prior to this, Mark has held multiple leadership positions across the company, including 9 years as an Executive Director of WPP plc., 12 years, as Head of Strategy and then as CEO…