Japanese automobile manufacturer Nissan Motor Company Ltd recently announced the appointment of Guillaume Cartier as the Senior Vice-President and the new Chairman for Africa, Middle East, and India markets and head of Global Datsun Business Unit, with immediate effect. Nissan in an official statement said, “In his new role, Cartier will lead the regional management […]
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Retail giant Walmart recently announced that it has promoted Sameer Aggarwal to Chief Executive Officer of Best Price, Walmart India w.e.f April 1, 2020. Post his promotion, Aggarwal will directly report to Dirk Van Den Berghe, Executive Vice-President and Regional CEO of Asia and Global Sourcing, Walmart. Aggarwal is taking over the CEO position from […]
Provider of payment and open banking technology, i2c Inc., recently announced that it has appointed Jim McCarthy as President of the company. He will be directly reporting to the company CEO and Founder Amir Wain. In his new role, McCarthy will be responsible for i2c teams working with clients, partners, and prospects. He will be […]
Ride-hailing company Uber will reportedly get a new boss for its food delivery business UberEats. The move is an attempt to continue growing its mail delivery services without spending much money. Jason Droege, the Uber executive who spearheaded UberEats launch in 2015, announced that he will be stepping down from his role as the Head […]
Credit Information Bureau, TransUnion CIBIL Limited, recently announced the appointment of its new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Rajesh Kumar, who was earlier working with HDFC Bank as Group Head for Retail Credit and Risk, will now be joining the credit bureau as its new MD and CEO. Kumar will succeed Satish Pillai, who […]
Global payment facilitator Mastercard Inc. recently announced that it has made some changes to its senior leadership team. The company on Tuesday said that Ajay Banga, CEO of Mastercard for nearly a decade, will be elevated to the position of Executive Chairman of the board. He will be replacing Richard Haythornthwaite, who is due retirement […]
ValueFirst Digital Media recently announced that it has appointed Vijayant Dhaka and Himanshu Kumar as Senior Vice Presidents. Vijayant Dhaka, an industry stalwart for the past 14 years, was working in leadership roles at Cheetah Digital and Octane prior to this appointment. Speaking about the appointment, Dhaka said “ValueFirst has invested in multiple technology platforms […]
Former Senior Vice President of HR at PI Industries, Biswarup Goswami has recently moved to a new role as the Chief Human Resources Officer(CHRO) at GHCL Ltd (formerly Gujarat Heavy Chemicals). An industry veteran, Goswami has more than two decades of experience in the human resources field. Prior to joining PI Industries as Senior Vice […]
India’s fastest growing Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMOs) Sai Life Sciences recently announced the appointment of Dr. Dean Edney as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Process Research & Development. In a press release, the company said that Edney will split his time between the company’s R&D center in Hyderabad, India and the […]
Global construction and mining equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. (or CAT) recently announced that its board of directors has appointed Pam Heminger as the company’s new Vice President. She will be directly responsible for Caterpillar’s Strategic Procurement Division. Heminger has more than 30 years of strategic procurement experience in the automotive and manufacturing sectors, most recently […]
MakeMyTrip has recently announced that its current Group Chief Executive Deep Kalra will be stepping down from his position giving the helm of the company to Rajesh Magow. “(Kalra) will devote his full time to pursuing strategic initiatives, including product innovation and expansion, geographic growth, business model innovation, and corporate development, in his new role […]
Amazon recently announced that it has hired streaming and TV veteran Mike Hopkins to lead its video entertainment business like Prime Video and Amazon Studios. Hopkins was earlier working with Sony as Chairman of Sony Pictures Television. His appointment will come in effect from February 24. Hopkins will directly report to the Amazon founder and […]
Tech giant Google on Monday confirmed that its Head of People Operations or Head of HR Eileen Naughton is stepping down from her position. This comes after Eileen spent years mediating issues between the management and the employees due to the rise in employee activism. She will be stepping down from her position as the […]
Shilpa Bhatia, a former SpiceJet executive has recently announced that she will be rejoining the company as its Chief Commercial Officer, after a five-month brief stint with IndiGo. SpiceJet through a press release announced her comeback and also said that “this is Shilpa’s third stint with SpiceJet.” Shilpa joined IndiGo in August 2019 after quitting […]
Vice President of Facebook’s engineering department Jay Parikh on Tuesday announced that he is leaving the company. He is the newest addition to the long list of executives who left the company over the past years. Parikh, who was considered to be instrumental in creating the data center infrastructure of the company will be succeeded […]