Tag: Leadership appointment

Randhir Thakur to head newly created foundry business for Intel

Intel has named India-born semiconductor industry veteran Randhir Thakur to lead its newly formed foundry business, according to ET report. The company has announced its plans to become a major provider of US and Europe-based foundry capacity ‘to serve the incredible global demand for semiconductor manufacturing’. “To deliver this vision, Intel is establishing a new…

Vehere ropes in Ramsunder Papineni as President – Global Sales

Vehere, a cyber Situational Awareness firm, has announced the appointment of Ramsunder Papineni as President, Global Sales.  In his new role, Papineni will lead Vehere’s global Sales and Customer Success efforts to focus on continued acceleration and growing Vehere’s presence in international markets. Papineni brings over three decades of experience in the IT industry, working…

Cipla re-appoints Umang Vohra as Managing Director & Global CEO

Pharma major Cipla announced it has re-appointed Umang Vohra as Managing Director and Global Chief Executive Officer for a period of five years, effective from 1st April, 2021. “In compliance with Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations & Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, this is to inform you that based on the recommendation of Nomination…

Fidelity International names Nitin Sharma as India Site Head

Fidelity International has appointed Nitin Sharma as India Site Head. He is currently Director – Research and alongside his existing role, he will be responsible for leading all matters relating to Fidelity International in India. Sharma has more than 22 years of experience in capital markets as an analyst, portfolio manager and research team leader,…

Qontigo ropes in Arun Singhal as Global Head of Index Product Management

Qontigo, a financial intelligence innovator and a leader in the modernization of investment management, from risk to return, announced the appointment of Arun Singhal as Global Head of Index Product Management.  In this new role, Singhal will oversee the expansion of Qontigo’s index product suite and build upon the integration with analytics to bring index-based…

Autodesk Announces Executive Leadership Team Hires

Autodesk, Inc. has announced the hiring of Debbie Clifford as chief financial officer, effective March 8, 2021, and Raji Arasu as chief technology officer, effective April 19, 2021. “We are thrilled to welcome both Debbie and Raji – two dynamic and accomplished executives – to Autodesk,” said Andrew Anagnost, CEO and president of Autodesk. “Debbie and…

United Breweries ropes in Walmart exec Anand Vijay Jha as Senior VP and Chief of Corporate Affairs

United Breweries, the country’s biggest brewer that sells Kingfisher, has appointed Anand Vijay Jha as senior vice president and chief of corporate affairs.  At UB, Jha will be responsible for heading public policy, government relations, corporate communications, philanthropy, CSR and UB’s ESG (environmental, social and governance) initiatives. Most recently, Jha served Walmart India as senior…

Druva ropes in industry veteran Scott Morris as VP of APJ Sales Organization

Druva Inc., the leader in Cloud Data Protection and Management, has announced the appointment of Scott Morris as Vice President of Sales for Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ).  In this new role, Morris will be responsible for developing and executing strategic go-to-market plans, creating revenue opportunities and delivering customer satisfaction as the company further accelerates growth…

Arun Rajamani joins Cambridge as Managing Director for South Asia region

Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment have announced the appointment of Arun Rajamani as the new Managing Director for Cambridge South Asia.  In this new role, Rajamani will lead all teams in the region across both organisations as they prepare to unify.  Arun Rajamani has worked in the education sector for several years, first with…

Gurmeet Kaur joins Huntsman as Marketing Head- South Asia

Huntsman, a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals, has announced the appointment of Gurmeet Kaur as the Head of strategic marketing for the Polyurethanes India sub-continent business, effective immediately. She will directly report to Rahul Tikoo, MD – India sub continent. In her new role, Kaur will be “responsible for…

Tata Motors ropes in Marc Llistosella as MD & CEO

Tata Motors Limited has announced Marc Llistosella as its new chief executive officer and managing director of the company, effective July 1, 2021. Llistosella will take over from the current incumbent Guenter Butschek, who has preferred to relocate to Germany, his native place. The Tata Group chairman N Chandrasekaran, who is also the chairman of…

Vivek Parasher appointed as VP Sales & Marketing – International at Best Power Equipments

Best Power Equipments (India) has announced the appointment of Vivek Parasher as Vice President Sales & Marketing (International), BPE Singapore.  In this new role, Parasher will be leading BPE’s Business in the Asia Pacific and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.  Parasher’s focus will be to identify key countries and channel partners to accelerate…

Shigeru Harasawa joins Vymo as Japan President

Vymo, the Sales Acceleration Platform of choice for over 125,000 users in 60+ leading financial institutions across the World, announced that Shigeru Harasawa has been appointed as Japan President.  Harasawa joins Vymo from leading Enterprise AI company, DataRobot, where he helped build the business in Japan from the ground up as its Country Manager. In…