Category: News

Apollo.io appoints Shek Viswanathan as Chief Product Officer

Apollo.io, the world’s leading B2B sales intelligence and engagement platform, announced the appointment of Shek Viswanathan as their Chief Product Officer. Shek comes to Apollo after serving as a Chief Product Officer at Qualtrics, where he managed a portfolio of digital and analytics tools and helped guide them through an acquisition and IPO, bringing them to over…

Uno Minda re-appoints Nirmal K Minda as Chairman & MD

Uno Minda Limited, formerly known as Minda Industries, announced the re-appointment of Nirmal K Minda as Chairman and Managing Director of the company, with effect from April 1, 2023. According to the company’s exchange filing, “The existing term of Sh. Nirmal K Minda as Chairman and Managing Director of the Company is upto March 31,…

Tata Chemicals appoints Zarir Langrana as Executive Director

Tata Chemicals Limited announced the appointment of Zarir Langrana as Executive Director on the company’s Board, with effect from April 1, 2023. According to the company’s exchange filing, “This is in furtherance to our letter dated February 1, 2023 intimating the Stock Exchanges about re-appointment of Mr. Zarir Langrana (DIN: 06362438) as an Executive Director…

Narayana Hrudayalaya appoints Shankar Arunachalam and Dr. Nachiket Mor to its Board

Healthcare chain Narayana Hrudayalaya Limited announced the appointment of Shankar Arunachalam and Dr. Nachiket Madhusudan Mor to its Board of Directors, with effect from February 8, 2023. Shankar Arunachalam is a Designed Senior Advocate. He is academically Chartered Accountant and Law graduate. He completed his Chartered Accountancy in 1985 and Degree in Law in 1986.…

ConcertAI hires Jitendra Gupta as Managing Director of India

ConcertAI, LLC (ConcertAI), a leader in AI Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technologies for clinical research, Real-world Evidence (RWE) solutions, and AI SaaS clinical interpretation solutions announced the appointment of Jitendra Gupta as its first Managing Director of India. Jitendra will oversee ConcertAI’s rapidly growing global operations comprised of definitive RWD solutions, global data operations, SaaS solution engineers, SaaS…

Visa announces senior leadership changes in Asia Pacific

Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, announced two senior leadership changes in the Asia Pacific region, with Chris Clark elevated from Regional President to Chairman, Asia Pacific, and Stephen Karpin named as his successor as Regional President, Asia Pacific. Both changes are effective 1 April 2023. Clark said: “Over the last ten years as…

Investorey raises $ 1mn in seed funding round

Investorey, a real estate investment aggregator platform, founded by Manisheel Gautam and Shikhar Daydar, raised $ 1 Mn seed funding in a mix of Equity and Debt. The equity was raised from a group of the country’s leading angel investors and debt funding was led by Panthera Peak Capital. Founded in 2021, Investorey enables individuals to access investments…

nurture.farm appoints Pankaj Dwivedi as Head of Business Development & Partnerships

nurture.farm, an Agri-tech platform, has promoted its Agronomy and Agri-business expert Pankaj Dwivedi as the Head of its Business Development and Partnerships division. Pankaj joined nurture.farm in 2020 as its Head of the Agronomy division. Pankaj holds a Postgraduate in Agribusiness Management from the National Institute of Agricultural Marketing. He has been associated with notable…

Contentstack appoints Vasudeva Kothamasu as General Manager, India

Contentstack, the Content Experience Platform (CXP) category leader and composable architecture pioneer, announced the appointment of the first-ever General Manager for India and Global Engineering Leader, Vasudeva Kothamasu. He brings a wealth of experience in Contentstack’s leadership expansion weeks after the onboarding of new Chief Marketing Officer, Susan Beermann, and the new Vice President of Global Partnerships, Preseetha Pettigrew.…

Phoenix Group expands strategic partnership with TCS to transform customer experience

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced an expansion of its long-standing partnership with Phoenix Group, UK’s largest long-term savings and retirements provider, to digitally transform the latter’s ReAssure business using the TCS BaNCS based platform. Phoenix Group acquired ReAssure, a UK-based life insurance provider, in 2020, and has now engaged with TCS to drive synergies and enhance…

CyberMedia India appoints Varun Jain to its Board

CyberMedia India Limited announced the appointment of Varun Jain as an Additional Director and Non-Executive Independent Director on the company’s Board, with effect from February 7, 2023. According to the company’s exchange filing, “we wish to inform that, based upon recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, the Board of Directors of the Company, at…

Accenture announces investment in Looking Glass

Accenture has made a strategic investment through Accenture Ventures in Looking Glass Factory, a leading hologram company. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. Looking Glass, with headquarters in Brooklyn, New York and additional operations in Hong Kong, has developed an end-to-end holographic platform, with a lineup of displays that can show content in life-like 3D, without requiring…

DroneBase secures $55 mn funding led by Valor Equity Partners

DroneBase has secured $55 million in investment and rebranded as Zeitview. Led by Valor Equity Partners, an operational growth investment firm backing technology and technology-enabled companies, the round was followed by existing investors Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Euclidean Capital, Energy Transition Ventures, and Hearst Ventures. The new funding will support the company’s AI-enabled software and global footprint in advanced inspection solutions. This…

K Satyanarayana Raju appointed as new MD & CEO of Canara Bank

The Government of India appointed K Satyanarayana Raju as MD and CEO of Canara Bank, with effect from February 7, 2023. He has replaced L V Prabhakar who demitted office on 31 December 2022. K Satyanarayana Raju has also served Canara Bank as Executive Director since 10th March 2021. K Satyanarayana Raju is a Physics…

Biz2X appoints Vijay Kumar Jamwal as its new HR Head

Biz2X (a subsidiary of Biz2Credit in India) a leading Digital Lending SaaS platform, announced that it has appointed Vijay Kumar Jamwal as Head, HR. In his present role, Vijay will be responsible forheading the organisation’s HR function and lead the people and culture priorities at Biz2X. He would also be responsible for strengthening the policy…