August 2023

	August 2023

BFSI CONSUMER_ECOMM GOVERNMENT INDUSTIAL_MANUFACTURING HEALTHCARE HOSPITALITY LEGAL_LAW INFRASTRUCTURE MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
BFSI	read more
Policybazaar appoints industry veteran Ajit Kumar to its advisory board EF Hutton appoints Gaurav Verma as Head of SPAC Harshad Patwardhan appointed Chief Investment Officer of Union AMC Equifax India names Aditya B. Chatterjee as Managing Director Doraiswamy Ramachandran named as Managing Director for LIC Poonawalla Fincorp appoints Kumar Gaurav as Chief Marketing Officer Chubb appoints Edward Kopp to lead Far East Region Chubb appoints Janice Mo to Lead its General Insurance Operations in Korea KKR Expands Focus on Climate Investing with Key Appointments to Global Infrastructure Team Parminder Chopra takes over as CMD of Power Finance Corporation IDBI Bank appoints Ajay Prakash Sawhney to its Board Kotak Alternate Asset Managers appoints Jitendra Gohil as Chief Investment Strategist for its Investment Advisory Business India Mortgage Guarantee Corporation appoints Kanika Singh as Chief Risk Officer Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Key Personnel Government appoints R Doraiswamy as LIC MD Bank of India Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Key Personnel South Indian Bank soars on appointing P R Seshadri as MD & CEO SBI Card appoints MD cum CEO Board of Five-Star Business Finance appoints Chief Compliance Officer RBL Bank appoints Head – Finance Board of Fino Payments Bank appoints Part-time Chairman JM Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Key Personnel Sundaram Finance appoints Chief Compliance Officer Board of Abans Holdings appoints CEO Board of Capital India Finance appoints CEO SBI Life gets IRDAI approval for the appointment of Amit Jhingran as MD & CEO LIC Housing Finance appoints MD cum CEO ITI Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Key Personnel Quant Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Key Personnel IDFC First Bank appoints Neerav Maniar as Chief Compliance Officer Kotak Alternate Asset Managers appoints Jitendra Gohil as Chief Investment Strategist for its Investment Advisory Business Indi ortgage Guarantee Corporation appoints Kanika Singh as Chief Risk Officer ETrade appoints Charanyan Iyengar as VP of supply chain JM Financial PE Names New Managing Director Picus Capital Hires MPL Exec As India Head, Plans Asia Expansion Guardian names Shiney Prasad as Country Head – India IDFC First Bank appoints Neerav Maniar as Chief Compliance Officer M2P Fintech appoints Mayank Kapoor as global HR head Nikhil Narayanan joins Pine Labs as Creative Head CSB Bank appoints Punit Saruparia as Head – Internal Audit and Alok Singh as Head – Treasury Triterras appoints Saurabh Arora as Vice President of Business Development UCO Bank names Vikash Gupta as Compliance Officer Tata Capital names Shruti Sharma as HR head FIDC appoints Umesh Revankar as new Chairman Sarbvir Singh named as Executive Director and Group CEO at PB Fintec ICRA appoints Jayanta Chatterjee as MD & CEO IDFC First Bank appoints Mahendra Shah to its Board Leadership rejigs at Howden India, Amit Agarwal named CEO InsuranceDekho appoints Divya Mohan as CHRO SEBI gets two whole-time members to its board Dream11 elevates Ruzbeh Billimoria as VP of Marketing
CONSUMER_ECOMM	read more
DS Group appoints Jyotiroop Barua to drive confectionery business Diageo India elevates Ruchira Jaitly as CMO Vipul Prakash joins DFM Foods as CEO and MD Nykaa CEO Falguni Nayyar to handle the brand’s marketing function Shalini Raghavan recently stepped down as the brand’s CMO Sula Vineyards appoints Abhishek Kapoor as CFO, Karan Vasani as COO EID Parry (India) appoints Y. Venkateshwarlu as CFO Prasant Kar joins Monster Energy as Marketing Director, India Zeenah Vilcassim joins Zomato Live Entertainment as CEO ETrade appoints Charanyan Iyengar as VP, Supply chain Birla Brainiacs appoints Muddassar Nazar as Chief Executive Officer Shoppers Stop announces changes in its leadership positions Google’s Pulkit Trivedi set to join Snap India as MD Shoppers Stop names Kavindra Mishra as new CEO Xiaomi ex-CMO Jaskaran Kapany joins Table Space Prathyusha Agarwal moves out of Byju’s Unstop appoints Alekhya Chakrabarty to spearhead Marketing and Growth Byju’s CBO, Prathyusha Agarwal and two senior executives step down amid operational challenges : Reports Kapiva elevates Shantanu and Anuj Sharma as Co-Founders
GOVERNMENT	read more
Infosys’s Sudha Murthy appointed on the key committee of NSTC by NCERT UIDAI gets Neelkanth Mishra as part-time chairman Bharat Dynamics appoints P V Raja Ram as Director (Production)
INDUSTIAL_MANUFACTURING	read more
MRF promotes Jacob Peter to VP and Head – HR & Services Mahindra EPC Irrigation MD Ashok Sharma resigns Valvoline announces CEO succession plan National Fertilizers promotes B.V. Vittal as Executive Director (HR) Deepika Warrier joins Bajaj Auto as Head of Marketing Debasree Dasgupta named Global VP for Pernod Ricard’s Absolut Alexander Valladares named StudioX Lead at The Coca-Cola Company APL Apollo appoints Charu Malhotra as Chief Brand Officer Shirish Agarwal moves out of Panasonic Life Solutions India Zomato’s Vedansh K joins boAt as Head of Brand Marketing Dharmistha Chaudhary joins Magenta Mobility as CHRO S.D. Namjoshi was appointed Head of production units of Heranba Industries Rossari Biotech elevates Puneet Arora to Director – Chief Strategy Officer, Vikram Rewar to Business Head Textile Division HonorTech appoints Aanchal Wadhwa as Associate Communications Director Orientbell South appoints Saravanan Elango as Vice President of Sales Praj Industries appoints director Navin Fluorine appoints Rajendra Sahu as CEO-designate of CDMO biz Gujarat State Petronet announces appointment of nominee director Pidilite Inds appoints Manish Dubey as chief marketing officer RRIL appoints CFO Board of Aries Agro appoints director Hindustan Zinc appoints director Board of Safari Industries (India) appoints director Vedanta appoints John Slaven as CEO – Aluminium Business Board of Vardhman Textiles appoints director Board of Varun Beverages appoints CFO Ketaki Suklikar joins Mahindra Group as Vice President and Legal Head of M&A Orient Paper & Industries appoints Chief Human Resource Officer Ambuja Cements appoints company secretary Prakash Industries appoints directors S.D. Namjoshi was appointed Head – Production units of Heranba Industries Rossari Biotech elevates Puneet Arora to Director – Chief Strategy Officer, Vikram Rewar to Business Head Textile Division Smart eMobility appoints Manoj Kohli as Chairman Samsung Biologics appoints new leadership to oversee quality and regulatory affairs The Sleep Company appoints Karan Singla as COO Girish Nair joins NDTV as Assignment Editor Senior news anchor Rohit Ranjan joins News Nation Kirloskar Brothers names Prashant Joshi as Plant Head – Ahmedabad Operations Maruti Suzuki India appoints Arnab Roy as CFO – Designate ARAPL appoints Shailesh Pandit as Independent Director Nita Ambani steps down, Isha, Akash & Anant to Join Reliance Board Maruti Suzuki India names Yukihiro Yamashita as Joint MD of Engineering and QA Ajax Engineering hires Joseph Peeris as CHRO Tesla appoints Indian-origin Vaibhav Taneja as its new CFO Coca-Cola India appoints Irene Tan as VP, HR India and Southwest Asia Gensol Group names Kanv Garg as the President and Chief Growth Officer Randstad India appoints Anand V as new Chief Information Officer Leadership rejig at Occidental Petroleum, Sunil Mathew appointed new CFO Hinduja Group hires Mukesh Rathi as Chief Digital Officer Reckitt’s Dilen Gandhi moves on Dalmia Cement appoints Puneet Dalmia as MD & CEO Debabrata Mukherjee to take over as MD & CEO of Bata Bangladesh Paper Boat’s Krisha Turakhia joins xto10x as a Brand Marketing Consultant Sachin Chhabra joins Relaxo Footwear as VP & Head of Marketing Mark Thompson to take over as CNN’s Chairman & CEO Satya Koniki takes charge as Head of Global Delivery for Zoo Media Network
HEALTHCARE	read more
Gaurav Bahadur resigns as Senior Director – HR, India & South Asia of Sanofi AI21 Labs appoints Pankaj Dugar as SVP GTM and GM of North America Personal care brand Clensta appoints Navin Prajapati as VP of retail Sales and New Initiatives HealthCare Global appoints Ruby Ritolia as CFO Alembic appoints director Sequent Scientific appoints a director Board of Gland Pharma appoints Chief Operating Officer Personal care brand Clensta appoints Navin Prajapati as VP – Retail Sales and New Initiatives Samsung Biologics appoints new leadership to oversee quality and regulatory affairs Jaydeep Shah joins Sun Pharma as CMO of Consumer Health Business Thyrocare Technologies appoints Alok K Jagnani as CFO Kapiva elevates Shantanu and Anuj Sharma as Co-Founders Max Group’s Antara Senior Care appoints Rohit Khatua as EVP & Head of Marketing, Comms SkinQ gets Meera Iyer as the new CEO and Co-founder Tarundeep Singh Rana joins Zydus Healthcare as Chief Marketing Officer Mohan Menon named CMO at Metropolis Healthcare Reckitt’s Dilen Gandhi quits
HOSPITALITY	read more
Indian School of Hospitality announces promotion of Kunal Vasudeva as Co-Founder and MD iD Fresh Food appoints Megha Latawa as CHRO Swarnojit Sengupta joins Wow! Momo as National Brand Lead Paromita Dasgupta appointed Front Desk Manager at Hyatt Regency Pune Hyatt Regency Delhi appoints Malvika Mathur as Director of Marketing & Communications Jitendra Raghuwanshi takes over as GM of Koolwal Kothi Zinc Journey by The Fern, Nawalgarh Shangri-La Eros New Delhi appoints Saif Usmani as Spa Manager Concept Hospitality appoints Debangshu Bhattacharyya as Associate Director Sales at Fern’s Regional Sales Office, Bangalore First Female Chef at the helm of the Berceau des Sens Poonam Gawas takes over as Associate Director – Online Revenue at The Fern Hotels & Resorts Nitin Marriya elevated to GM, Le Meridien Nagpur Kumar Manish takes over as General Manager at The Fern Residency, Mundra Conrad Pune appoints Rahul Chaudhary as Director of Food and Beverage The Fern Hotels & Resorts promotes Varun Kanojia as Director of Sales at Fern’s Regional Sales Office, Delhi Tamara Leisure Experiences elevates Manoj Mathew as Senior Vice President – Operations JW Marriott Hotel Bangalore welcomes Chef Matteo Arvonio as Executive Italian Chef at ALBA Nadeem Khan takes over as Director of Rooms at JW Marriott Bengaluru Prestige Golfshire Resort & Spa Chalet Hotels Limited appoints Shwetank Singh as Chief Growth and Strategy Officer Aashay Tallur elevated as Director of Sales & Marketing at Hyatt Centric Candolim Goa Alma Resort names Mildred Amon as Director of Marketing Communication Indian School of Hospitality announces promotion of Kunal Vasudeva as Co-Founder and Managing Director Om Prakash Bhatt takes over as Revenue Manager at Novotel Ahmedabad Shangri-La Eros New Delhi appoints Saif Usmani as Spa Manager Suresh Natarajan appointed Executive Chef at Le Meridien Hyderabad Ramada Jaipur North appoints Ravi Dhankhar as General Manager Pradeep Singh Panwar joins as Executive Chef for the upcoming ‘Country Inn Premier’ hotel in Dehradun Le Méridien Amritsar appoints Khurram Zahid as F&B Director Supreet Roy joins Sheraton Grand Pune Bund Garden Hotel as General Manager Board of Devyani International appoints CEO – Costa Coffee Conrad Pune appoints Rahul Chaudhary as Director of Food and Beverage Restaurant Brands Asia appoints Roshini Bakshi to its Board
LEGAL_LAW	read more
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas makes 18 Partners Saraf and Partners strengthens tax practice with the hire of Amit Gupta as Partner SEBI lawyer Vasudha Goenka joins Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas as Partner in Dispute Resolution Practice Mustafa Kachwala joins Majmudar & Partners as Partner in Disputes Antares Legal promotes Surbhi Kothiala to Partnership Mansukhlal Hiralal & Co elevates Akash Jain and Meeta Kadhi as Associate Partners SAM’s Debashree Dutta and AZB’s Roopali Singh join Vritti Law Partners as Co-Founding Partners Harish Khedkar and Siddharth Ratho join Naik Naik & Co as Associate Partners Shwetank Tripathi joins ANM Global as an Associate Partner in IP Practice Strategy Law Partners expands to Bengaluru; Anisha Shroff joins as Partner Singhania & Partners elevates Yaman Kumar to Partnership; Three lawyers made Associate Partners Tarun Dua joins Singhania & Partners as a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Practice Sumit Mangal joins AZB & Partners as a Partner in Tax practice DMD Partner Sumit Sinha joins Phoenix Legal as a Partner in Corporate practice Lokesh Shah joins IndusLaw as Partner in Tax practice Harry Chawla announced as Managing Partner of Luthra and Luthra Law Offices; Atlas Law Partners merges with firm Lokesh Shah joins IndusLaw as Partner in Tax practice Harry Chawla announced as Managing Partner of Luthra and Luthra Law Offices; Atlas Law Partners merges with firm NPAC enriches its governing council with the inclusion of three more members Karanjawala & Co elevates Tahira Karanjawala to Partnership AZB Partner Rohit Bajaj joins Shardul Amarchand Mangal as a Partner in Real Estate practice Emerald Law Offices expands to Bengaluru; Aditi Lodha joins as Partner in Real Estate practice SIAC appoints Cyril Shroff as board director; and Vijayendra Pratap Singh as a court member Karanjawala lawyer Vir Inderpal Singh Sandhu joins DLF Limited as Vice President – Legal IFC Counsel Dushyant Kumar joins AP & Partners as a Partner
INFRASTRUCTURE	read more
Sushant K Mishra appointed new CEO of Adani Logistics Limited Colliers appoints Badal Yagnik as new Chief Executive Officer in India Godrej Properties appoints Sumeet Narang to its Board AXISCADES appoints Group Chief HR Officer The Board of Shriram Properties appoints a director Board of Prabhav Industries appoints a CFO and director The Board of KPI Green Energy appoints director Board of GMR Power & Urban Infra appoints directors Delhivery appoints director Board of DLF appoints director The Board of Great Eastern Shipping Company appoints a director Godrej Properties appoints director Rites appoints CFO Indus Towers CIO Vinod Sivarama Krishnan resigns Parex Resources appoints Sanjay Bishnoi to Chief Financial Officer Mindspace Business Parks REIT announces leadership change, names Ramesh Nair as CEO Ashwin Sheth Group Appoints Bhavik Bhandari as its Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Anurag Sharma named VP-Marketing at BHIVE Group OfficeBanao appoints Aman Agarwal as its Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Growth BHIVE Group appoints Anurag Sharma as VP of Marketing
MEDIA	read more
Kargo enters the Indian market with new sales leader Rachit Uppal Akshat Raizada is National Agency Head – JioCinema (Digital Ventures) Vishal Kaul elevated to Associate Director Marketing at Disney Star Suryadeep Basiya joins Shemaroo Entertainment as Head of Gujarati category Pinkvilla appoints Ashish Naik as Vice President – Revenue Shweta Khosla & Punit Singh named Executive VP at DENTSU CREATIVE Audrey Kuah named CEO-Asia Pacific at Wunderman Thompson NDTV Group appoints Gaurav Shah as Head – HR Manisha Sharma quits Viacom18 Samarjit Singh named Mad Influence COO Madhuja Banerjee & Rohini Singh to join Colors TV Rasesh Upadhyay joins Viacom18 as Strategy Head Sruthijith KK steps down as Mint Editor-in-Chief Moneycontrol’s Ravi Krishnan joins Mint Shobori Ganguly was appointed as editor-in-chief of The Pioneer Varun Dhir gets new role at OMG India Akhilesh Sabharwal joins Zoo Media as Chief Technology Officer Akshat Raizada joins JioCinema to lead agency relationships Viacom18 appoints ex-Google MD Kiran Mani as CEO of digital business Vipin Unni joins Sun TV Network as Head of Strategy – Malayalam and Telugu Cluster OMD appoints Dileep Raj Singh as Head of Digital for APAC narrative ropes in Rajdeepgiri Goswami as Creative Director MiQ appoints Rohit Monga as the Head of product and partnerships for India Rajaraman Sundaram joins Disney Star as Head-Office of Country Manager Dhruv Dhawan joins Disney+ Hotstar as Head of Ads Senior journalist Rajkishore appointed Managing Editor of Dainik Bhaskar, Digital Insider appoints Shreyas Doshi to its Advisory Board Manisha Dey named Head of Devotional & Music Division at Shemaroo Entertainment Dream11 elevates Nikhil Lodha to VP – Marketing Ventes Avenues bolsters leadership team with two senior-level appointments Kaizad Pardiwalla named GM, Mumbai & Chief Digital Officer at BBDO India Satya Koniki takes over as Head of Global Delivery for Zoo Media Mandeep Singh quits Bennett Coleman as Vice President L&K Saatchi & Saatchi appoints Samir Shanbhag as Business Head & EVP Tribes Communication onboards Tavleen Kaur as Senior Director – Creative Strategy Rohit Gopakumar named CEO of WWM Enormous elevates Neha Singh to Associate VP HT Media’s Anil Dua gets a new role as Head of Subscriptions and User Growth – OTT Play SPN appoints Anirban Banerjee as Senior Technical Lead (VP) – Director Engineering AdCounty Media appoints Kapil Rastogi as National Sales Head India Aamir Sohail to head digital at India Center of Excellence, Havas Media Network Disney Star Sports elevates Sangeeta Pujari as Associate Director-Lead Customer Marketing Perfetti Van Melle’s Shankar Iyer elevated as Director-Marketing, Nigeria Ipsos India appoints Neha Munshi as Country Lead, Ipsos Digital Divyesh Gurlani appointed Vice President – Pricing & Investment-APEX Eggfirst Co-founder and CEO, Ashish Banka moves on Ventes Avenues announces senior level appointments
TECHNOLOGY	read more
Yuma Energy names Muthu Subramanian as MD Microsoft appoints Puneet Chandok as Corporate VP for India and South Asia Former Salesforce.com exec appointed CEO of Cybercheck AgileThought CFO Amit Singh resigns, Carolyne Cesar named new CFO Netcore Cloud appoints Mahesh Narayanan as Chief Marketing Growth Officer Trax appoints Steve Liebman as SVP of Sales and John Vallely as COO DDB Tribal appoints Purva Ummat as Group Creative Director Rediffusion hires Dipty Gurjar to head Bombay 2 Pocket FM appoints Pannagadatta K Shivaswamy as Director – AI DENTSU CREATIVE India appoints Manzoor Alam as Executive Creative Director Priyanka Magan joins Next by Rediffusion as Vice President Havas Worldwide India appoints Kundan Joshee as Managing Partner & Head – West & South Jagran New Media elevates Gaurav Arora to COO, onboards Divya Singh as CRO Vehere appoints Nirbhaya Mishra as Director of Corporate Development ChistaDATA appoints Mukund Seetharaman as COO Boomi appoints Sean Wechter as Chief Information Officer Phosphorus Cybersecurity appoints Sonu Shankar to Chief Strategy Officer Interface Microsystems appoints Deepti Mehta as CHRO Capillary Technologies announces leadership change PayPal selects Alex Chriss from Intuit as new CEO Barco appoints Rajeeva Lochan Sharma as Managing Director for India Moveworks appoints Mayank Khanwalker as Director of Engineering, Rajesh Anandaramu as Director of HR UPL re-appoints Usha Rao-Monari to its Board Rediffusion rejigs creative top deck: New roles for Virendra Tivrekar, Nilesh Nayak Meta India’s SMB portfolio under Vikas Purohit now Neil Patel appoints Ajaz Mirza as Vice President of Operations Birla Brainiacs appoints Muddassar Nazar as Chief Executive Officer Centrick promotes Malavika Shah to Chief Operating Officer Unacademy appoints Anurag Tiwari as National Academic Director for Unacademy Centres 82Volt ropes in Mohanakrishnan P as Chief Growth Officer Board of Sakst appoints a director Nucleus Software Exports appoints Chief Human Resource Officer Board of Honeywell Automation India appoints director Wipro appoints director Firstsource Solutions appoints Chief Human Resource Officer Wipro appoints Brijesh Singh as global AI head GoTo appoints Peter Mahoney as Chief Marketing Officer Xceedance appoints Praveen Pachaury as Global SVP of Technology and Digital Porter appoints Amit Singh as Director of Technoloy Uber names Arnab Kumar as Director of Business Development for India and South Asia TechWish Group onboards G Ravindran Reddy as Vice President – Marketing Zomato’s Vedansh K joins boAt as Head of Brand Marketing Illumio appoints L. David Kingsley as Chief People Officer Syrma SGS appoints Satendra Singh as Chief Executive Officer Smart eMobility appoints Manoj Kohli as Chairman GoTo appoints Peter Mahoney as Chief Marketing Officer Xceedance appoints Praveen Pachaury as Global SVP of Technology and Digital UIDAI gets Neelkanth Mishra as part-time chairman Wipro appoints Brijesh Singh as global AI head Dharmistha Chaudhary joins Magenta Mobility as CHRO SAP appoints Gina Vargiu-Breuer as Chief People Officer Cloud4C appoints Arindam Mukherjee as new President of Sales for India region Tech Mahindra appoints Atul Soneja as COO Lowe Lintas India’s Ekta Relan steps down as Chief Strategy Officer WhiteHat Jr CEO Ananya Tripathi quits Tinder’s Taru Kapoor moves on after 8-yr stint Karthik Krishnan joins The Content Lab as Executive Creative Director Archana Vohra leaves Meta India Jackey K joins Paytm as Vice President-Marketing L&K Saatchi & Saatchi appoints Samir Shanbhag as Business Head & EVP FCB Kinnect and FCB/SIX India appoints Bhamini Painter as Senior Vice President of Human Resources
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