Google has hired Fiona Clare Cicconi, a top executive from pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, to oversee its personnel policies. Cicconi will replace Eileen Naughton. Google announced that Cicconi is leaving AstraZeneca to become its head of people operations during a meeting with employees, according to media reports. In her new role, Cicconi will have to make…
Internet giant Google recently announced that it has appointed former Microsoft executive Anil Bhansali as Vice President of Engineering for its cloud business in India. In his new role, Bhansali will handle all software development support efforts for Google Cloud in India. Commenting on Bhansali’s appointment, Amit Zavery, Vice President, Engineering, Google LLC said, “We’re…
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has donated ₹5Cr to non-profit Give India, thus matching Google’s earlier donation of ₹5Cr to the online NGO donation platform. Thanking Pichai, Give India in a tweet said, “Thank you @sundarpichai for matching @Googleorg’s Rs 5 crore grant to provide desperately needed cash assistance for vulnerable daily wage worker…
Premier executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles recently announced the appointment of former Google HR executive Laszlo Bock to its Board of Directors as an Independent Director, effective April 3, 2020. Along with his new role, Bock will continue to be the CEO of Humu Inc., a company which he founded. As CEO of Humu,…
Internet giant Google recently announced the appointment of industry veteran Karan Bajwa as the Managing Director of Google Cloud business in India Bajwa, who has leadership experience of more than three decades, will be responsible for driving all revenue and go-to-market operations for Google Cloud’s extensive solution portfolio that includes Google Cloud Platform and G…
Delhi-based early-stage venture capital (VC) firm, Venture Highway, on Thursday announced that it has raised an amount of $78.6mn for its second fund. The second fund will be purely focused on seed investments in Indian technological start-ups. The VC firm raised this money from a group of Silicon-Valley based tech leaders. Venture Highway was founded…