Okaya Power Group, a battery manufacturing company, has appointed Atish Bhattacharya as the Head of Human Resources & Administration. Before joining Okaya Power Group, Bhattacharya was Vice President of Human Resources at Ozone Overseas. He has also worked at Greenlam Industries, AccorHotels India, Bharti Infratel, Samsung India Electronics, Voltas, and Larsen & Toubro. Bhattacharya has…
NBFC company IIFL Finance announced the appointment of Gaurav Sharma as Chief Technology Officer of the company. Sharma is a technology and digital transformation specialist with over 27 years of experience. He was in the CTO role at Poonawalla Fincorp and L&T Financial Services previously. He was also associated with TCS and Max Life Insurance…
SBI Cards and Payment Services Limited announced the appointment of Swaminathan Janakiraman as Nominee Director on the company’s Board, with effect from July 22, 2022. According to the company’s exchange filing, “we wish to inform that the Board of Directors of the Company vide its resolution dated July 22, 2022, has approved appointment of Mr.…
NIIT Institute of Finance, Banking and Insurance (NIIT IFBI) – a subsidiary of NIIT Limited, and Bajaj Finserv, announced a partnership to create a large-scale, job-ready pool of talent for the BFSI industry. Bajaj Finserv, through its flagship CSR Initiative BEYOND, aims to train over 10,000 graduates, especially first generation graduates, every year across India.…
CortiqaHealth announces securing Angel investment from a group of marquee US investors, together with seed funding from founding members. CortiqaHealth would be raising a bridge round in the next quarter, to support the Product Validation and Go-to-Market efforts, a statement said. CortiqaHealth’s mission is to create a healthier community and aims to achieve it by democratizing…
Ericsson has completed its acquisition of Vonage Holdings Corp. (Vonage), supporting Ericsson’s strategy to leverage technology leadership to grow its mobile network business and expand into enterprise. The acquisition provides Ericsson with access to powerful building blocks to offer a full suite of communications solutions including, Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS), UCaaS and CCaaS,…
State-owned NTPC has appointed Jaikumar Srinivasan as Director of Finance. Prior to this, Srinivasan served as director – finance in NLC India, a fossil fuel mining and thermal power generating company. According to the official press release, he has also served as director – finance at the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company and director –…
Accenture has agreed to acquire Eclipse Automation, a provider of customized manufacturing automation and robotics solutions headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. The acquisition will allow Accenture to offer automated production lines that leverage the cloud, data and artificial intelligence (AI), making factories and plants smarter and thus, more productive, sustainable and safe. Financial terms were…
The Board of Directors of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) announced that it has appointed Deborah K. Orida as President and Chief Executive Officer effective September 1, 2022. PSP Investments is one of Canada’s largest pension investment managers. Orida has 25 years of experience in the investment and finance industry and was most recently Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Real Assets &…
Basis Theory, the data security and compliance data tokenization platform that helps any company quickly secure, use, and manage sensitive information, has announced the hire of former Envestnet Yodlee VP and head of sales Dhruv Manga as its new managing director for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Dhruv has over 20 years of experience originating and…
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has been ranked among the top cybersecurity service providers in a recent report published by HFS Research. The report evaluated cybersecurity service providers globally across innovation, execution, voice of the customer, and OneOffice alignment criteria, to assess how well they help enterprise clients effectively improve their cybersecurity posture. Among the 15…
Gokwik, an e-commerce enabler focusing predominantly on boosting conversion rates for e-commerce brands, has announced the appointment of Amitt Sharma as its CCO (Chief Customer Officer). Amitt would be working closely with the rest of the verticals and the leadership team in driving GoKwik’s vision to maximize the value delivery to its clients as a…
Syngene International Limited, an integrated research, development and manufacturing services company, announced the re-appointment of Sharmila Abhay Karve as Independent Director on the company’s Board, with effect from July 20, 2022. According to the company’s exchange filing, “Pursuant to Regulation 30 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, we wish to inform you…
Boomi, the intelligent connectivity and automation company, announced the expansion of its cloud data center footprint in Japan to accelerate the deployment of its category-leading integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solutions as demand across Asia-Pacific continues to grow. According to a Japan Keyman’s Net survey on the usage of iPaaS, due to the rapid…
Tractor manufacturer Sonalika ITL is gearing up to infuse fresh talent into its workforce and hire over 3,000 talented young minds from state level ITI and other similar institutes, thereby encourage rural and semi urban youth join its Pan India dealer network teams. The hiring spree will strengthen its existing dealer workforce for increasing its village…