Aditya Birla Nuvo has appointed Ashish Dikshit as the CEO of – Madura Fashion & Lifestyle, the lifestyle garments business of Aditya Birla Nuvo. Madura Fashion & Lifestyle dominates the premium lifestyle apparel retail through its brands – Louis Philippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Peter England and The Collective. The company is picking up a…
Category: Executive Movements
Max Bupa appoints Manasije Mishra as CEO Designate
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Max Bupa has appointed Mr. Manasije Mishra as the Chief Executive Officer Designate. The appointment of Mr. Mishra will be subject to requisite regulatory approvals. He will succeed Mr. Damien Marmion, the founding CEO of Max Bupa. Mr Mishra would be working with the incumbent CEO for next few months and would subsequently take over…
MindTree appoints Ravi Shankar as EVP & Chief People Officer and Greg Blount as SVP & Head of US Strategic Accounts
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MindTree Limited, a global IT and Product Engineering Services Company, has appointed Ravi Shankar as Executive Vice President & Chief People Officer and Greg Blount as Senior Vice President & Head of US Strategic Accounts. “Addition of the leaders of the stature of Ravi and Greg is significant for MindTree in its journey to become…
First Solar appoints Sujoy Ghosh as the Country Head for India
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First Solar, has appointed Sujoy Ghosh as its country head to lead and manage the Indian operations as well as business development in India. First Solar is a US based company and one of world’s premier provider of fully integrated solar solutions, creating value-driven renewable energy projects that represent the leading edge of utility-scale solar…
InMobi leadership appointments – Sandeep Deshpande and Vishal Nongbet
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InMobi the largest independent mobile ad network has appointed Sandeep Deshpande as its country General Manager, India. Sandeep has over two decades of experience in working with and supporting the growth of new businesses in Internet, Gaming, Telecom space. He has previously been associated with Yahoo, Alibaba, Rediff , Birla AT & AT. He has…
K Subramanya resigns as CEO of Tata BP Solar
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Ramesh Ramanathan, Co-founder-Janaagraha Joins MindTree Board
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MindTree Limited, has appointed Ramesh Ramanathan as an Independent Director to its Board of Directors with effect from May 2, 2012. Ramesh is a co-founder of Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, a non-profit organization focused on transforming quality of life in Urban India, Chairman of Janalakshmi Social Services and is also the National Technical…
AstraZeneca CEO David Brennan Quits
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AstraZeneca has been facing a slump in sales following the loss of patent cover on antipsychotic Seroquel last month. Some of its best selling drugs – Nexium and Crestor would be loosing their patent protection in 2014 and 2016 respectively. While the company’s profits have fallen by 19 % in the first quarter the company…
HCL Technologies Announces Appointment of Prithvi Shergill as the Global Head of HR
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Noida, India, April 19th, 2012: HCL Technologies Ltd. today announced that Prithvi Shergill has joined the company as Corporate Vice President and Global HR Head. He will be based in Bangalore, India. "I am pleased to welcome Prithvi to lead our HR organization as we move to the next stage of the Employees First transformation…
Wipro Appoints Suchira Iyer as Chief Marketing Officer, IT Business
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012: Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) today announced the appointment of Suchira Iyer as its Chief Marketing Officer, IT Business. Suchira will report to TK Kurien, CEO, IT Business and Executive Director, Wipro Ltd. Rajan Kohli, after a two-year stint as the…
Best Buy CEO resigns, interim CEO appointed
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Best Buy, the leading electronics retailer has announced the resignation of its CEO of 28 years , Brian Dunn. The company has of late been struggling to keep up with competition from online retailers. The company has once held a strong positioning as a off line retail giant. Recently , as a part of its…
Citi India Appoints Jane Ong as Head of Corporate Affairs
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Citi India has announced the appointment of Jane Ong as the Head of Corporate Affairs for Citi South Asia. In this capacity, Jane will be responsible for media relations, managing external and internal communications as well as Citi’s Citizenship portfolio. She will report to Pramit Jhaveri, CEO, Citi India. Pramit Jhaveri, CEO Citi India said,…
Sony Mobile Communications Announces New Leadership
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Kunimasa Suzuki named new President and CEO and Bert Nordberg to become Chairman of the Board Sony Mobile Communications has announced that Kunimasa Suzuki has been named President and CEO of Sony Mobile Communications, effective 16 May 2012, and Bert Nordberg, currently President and CEO, will step down from the leadership of the company. Bert…
Fullerton India leadership appointments
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Fullerton India Credit Company Ltd, one of India’s leading Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFC), has some new faces in at leadership and senior management level. Anand Natrajan, joins as Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for finance, treasury and business operations. He has earlier been with Standard Chartered for about 25 years in…