February 2022

	February 2022

BFSI Consumer Hospitality Industrial Media & Entertainment TECH & TELECOM Others
BFSI	read more
A K Goel assumes charge as MD & CEO of Punjab National Bank IDBI Bank approves re-appointment of Rakesh Sharma as MD & CEO for 3 years Poonawalla Fincorp reinstates Abhay Bhutada as Managing Director Repco Home Finance appoints K. Swaminathan as Managing Director & CEO CNH Industrial Capital India appoints Vishal Chaudhury as Managing Director Jaimini Bhagwati joins IDFC First Bank as Additional Director CSB Bank appoints Sharad Kumar Saxena as Additional Director for 3 years term Viraj Nair joins Kalaari Capital as AVP-Marketing IndoStar Home Finance appoints Ravi Narayanan as chairman Himanshu Patel Becomes Chief Economic Development & Energy Infrastructure Advisor for U.S. Congressmen Pete Sessions Crypto Technical Working Group Ujjivan Small Finance Bank appoints M D Ramesh Murthy as Chief Financial Officer CredAvenue appoints ex-Flipkart’s Krishnendu Majumdar as Chief Product Officer IDFC First Bank appoints Chetan Sanghvi as Chief Risk Officer after demise of Pankaj Sanklecha Embedded Finance Startup Falcon appoints ex-banker Chinmaya Desai as CBO Digital edu loan platform Credenc appoints Mayanka Uppal as CMO RBI OKs appointment of Pralay Mondal as deputy MD of CSB Bank Aruni Panda joins Carat India as digital VP PPFAS Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Directors Niyogin Fintech appoints new directors to the board Union Bank appoints Nidhu Saxena as Executive Director SBI’s head-HR, Tina Sharma joins Money Smart as head of people Plum appoints Zoheab Rehaman as the Head of People Success IIFL AMC appoints Aakash Desai as head of Private Credit IDBI Bank appoints TN Manoharan as Independent Director Ujjivan SFB stock jumps ~1.50% on appointment of Sudha Suresh as Independent Director KPMG India elects Ajay Mehra as new chairman of its board Govt appoints Aggarwal as RBI nominee director in Indian Overseas Bank Stashfin names Gaurav Shah as senior vice-president-Alliances World Bank India head Junaid Ahmad appointed vice president of operations CoinSwitch appoints R Venkatesh as senior vice president of Public Policy Taurus MF Announces Appointment of Key Personnel Ahead of IPO, LIC ropes in 6 independent directors on its board
Consumer	read more
Kellogg appoints Prashant Peres as MD for India & South Asia Pepe Jeans India appoints Manish Kapoor as MD& CEO Tropicana Brands Group appoints Glen Walter as chief executive officer Capital Foods appoints S Raghunandan as chief executive officer HomeLane appoints Udit Mediratta as Chief Marketing Officer Modi Naturals appoints Mukesh Ghuraiya as Chief Marketing Officer Honeywell appoints veteran leader Rajesh Rege as country president for India Unilever restructures organisational model, appoints Nitin Paranjpe as new CPO Dabur India appoints Saket Gupta as Joint Company Secretary Reckitt appoints Nestle Tejash Chheda as Lead – Media Planning and Content Harsha V Agarwal gets new designations at Emami Mohan Goenka gets new designations at Emami HomeLane appoints Narayanan Rajagopalan as the Vice President-Design Mondelez promotes Anil Viswanathan to VP-marketing Emami restructures leadership, Founders to continue being board members Licious makes new appointments to the leadership team Godrej Consumer Products India CEO Sunil Kataria to move on
Hospitality	read more
IndiGo co-founder Rahul Bhatia takes charge as managing director Tata Sons names former Turkish Airlines’ chairman Ilker Ayci as CEO of Air India Yogesh Bellani joins advisory board of F&B supply-chain automation start-up, SupplyNote Amaan Kidwai appointed Area Manager (Welcomhotels-Northern Region) and General Manager, Welcomhotel Sheraton New Delhi Aditi Das joins JW Marriott Kolkata as Assistant Director Human Resources The Westin Pune Koregaon Park appoints Raj Kadamuturu as Assistant Director, F&B Avanish Chaturvedi appointed Assistant F&B Manager at Hyatt Regency Chennai Mosaic Wellness onboards Abhinav Mohan as Chief Business Officer Former SriLankan Airlines CEO appointed chief financial officer of Jet Airways Satyadeep Mishra joins OYO as CHRO for tech & corporate teams Reetesh Gade moves on from Nature’s Basket BLADE India appoints Payal Satish as commercial director Conrad Bengaluru appoints Rajan Malhotra as Commercial Director Raffles Udaipur appoints Abhishek Anand as Director – Talent & Culture Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Center appoints Nitin Varshney as Director of Engineering Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Center appoints Vedagiri Rajaram as Director of F&B Ravikant Tibrewal appointed Director of Finance at Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre & Hyderabad International Convention Centre Hitesh Mehta joins Novotel Kolkata as Director of Finance The Westin Pune Koregaon Park appoints Rishi Mehra as Director of Food & Beverage Conrad Pune appoints Dinesh Maan as Director of Food & Beverage Sofitel Mumbai BKC appoints Farshid Billimoria as Director of Revenue Novotel Mumbai Juhu Beach appoints Ayush Kapoor as Director of Revenue and Distribution Alma Resort Cam Ranh appoints Son Hoang Le as Director of Sales Varun Mehrotra elevated as Director, Sales & Marketing at Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre & Hyderabad International Convention Centre Binayak Tamang appointed executive chef at Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Center Abhishek Singh takes over as Executive Chef at Courtyard by Marriott Gurugram Downtown Joydeep Acharya appointed Executive Housekeeper at JW Marriott Kolkata Depankar Ganguly appointed F&B Manager at Hyatt Pune Kalyani Nagar DoubleTree by Hilton Gurugram Baani Square appoints Manvendra Pratap Singh as F&B manager Le Meridien Gurgaon promotes Rahul Mahindroo to Front Office Manager Crowne Plaza Greater Noida appoints Sharad K Upadhyay as General Manager Santanu Guha Roy joins Radisson Blu Resort and Spa Karjat as General Manager Double Tree by Hilton Agra appoints Shyam Kumar as General Manager Pushpam Lords Resort Karjat appoints Gaurav Basnet as General Manager JW Marriott Pune appoints Vimal Verma as General Manager Ronan Fearon appointed General Manager at soon-to-launch JW Marriott Bengaluru Prestige Golfshire Resort and Spa Aloft Bengaluru Cessna Business Park appoints Sita Lekshmi as General Manager Fairmont Jaipur appoints Nisha Kumari as Head Chef at Zia, Fairmont Jaipur Accor India and South Asia appoints Pratima Badhwar as Head of Commercial Padmanav Kundu joins AirAsia as head of rewards JW Marriott Mumbai Sahar appoints Chef Asif Qureshi as Indian speciality chef The Westin Pune appoints Apratim Gole as Marketing & Communications Manager Rubeena Khan takes over as Marketing and Communications Manager, Novotel Hyderabad Airport Murali Venkatesh joins as Talent & Culture Manager at Grand Mercure Bengaluru at Gopalan Mall Chef Neel Kajale appointed Test Kitchen Manager at Haven’s Kitchen, New York Anand Chandak joins Arzooo as Vice President – Categories Three new appointments at Le Meridien Nagpur Raffles Udaipur announces the appointment of leadership roles Three new appointments at Aloft Bengaluru Cessna Business Park
Industrial	read more
Etrio Automobiles appoints Kalyan C Korimerla as Managing Director PESB selects MD Anzar Alam for Director (Finance), ECL Mr. Atanu Bhowmick assumed as Director Incharge of SAIL’s RSP PESB selects Rajinder Singh Manku for Post Director Planning of Andrew Yule & Co. Jai Prakash Dwivedi took over as Director- Technical of Western Coalfields PESB selected Mr. J P Srivastava for BHEL Director-Engineering, R&D post PESB selects Mr. T Muthukumar for the post of Director-P&M, MIDHANI S K Singh took over as Director-Technical (Planning & Projects) of BCCL Ms Sukla Mistry takes over as first women Functional Director on IndianOil Board Tata Motors appoints Sidheshwar Sharma as GM -Brand Marketing, CVBU Autobot Academy appoints Rajeev Sharma as new Head of L&D Tata Motors appoints Al-noor Ramji as Independent Director New Director-Projects, GAIL; Deepak Gupta assumed the charge Honda Motors names Takuta Tsumura as President & CEO of Honda Cars India Limited Dassault Systèmes’ Prachi Mishra joins Vanderlande as regional head of learning Steel manufacturer Viraj Profiles CHRO Priya Ranjan Kumar steps down
Media & Entertainment	read more
Dentsu APAC promotes Siddarth Malhotra to CEO of Isobar Vietnam MSL elevates Amit Misra role to CEO, South East Asia Pritish Nandy Communications appoints Neerja Shah as Additional Independent Director on the Board Interactive Avenues appoints Juin Chakraborty as AVP, client servicing – west ADP appoints erDavid Goeckel to Board of Directors Rediffusion appoints P Ramchandran as Chennai Branch Head Abundantia Entertainment elevates Shikhaa Sharma to Chief Creative Officer Digitas India ropes in Abraham Varughese as Chief Creative Officer Adda247 appoints Rahul Pandey as Chief Marketing Officer Criteo appoints Brian Gleason as Chief Revenue Officer WONDRLAB appoints Siddhyesh Narkar as Chief Technology Officer Rediffusion appoints Dhanwinder Singh as Client Servicing Head, Mumbai Aashish Walia quits IndiaFirst Life, joins Fabled Minds as CMO Siddharth Chopra roped in as PEN Music COO
TECH & TELECOM	read more
Niyogin appoints Tashwinder Singh as Managing Director Kaspersky appoints Sandra Lee as managing director, APAC Srinivasan Arunachalam joins MIC Electronics as CEO Anuj Vaid appointed CEO of CMS IT Services Orange appoints Christel Heydemann as CEO Publicis Groupe India appoints Google’s Amaresh Godbole as CEO, Digital Tech Business SG Analytics appoints Sid Bannerjee as an Advisory Board Member Venkatraman GS Joins Maveric Systems as Chief Finance Officer Outbrain ropes in Paul Knegten as Chief Marketing Officer New Street Technologies appoints Arun Prasad G as Chief Operating Officer FCB Interface appoints Aditi Patwardhan as Chief Strategy Officer Paromita Deb Areng appointed CHRO, Zaggle Cigniti Technologies appoints Vinay Rawat as CRO; Sairam Vedam as CMO Airtel DTH Marketing Head Joydeep Mukherjee joins myclassroom as CMO HP Sandy Ono becomes CMO of OpenText Cigniti Tech appoints Vinay Rawat as CRO HCL Technologies appoints Masayuki Nakayama as Country Head in Japan Wipro appoints Namita Tiwari as Director and Head of CIS Marketing Protiviti India ropes in Vishal Sinha as Director IT Satya Raghavan appointed as Director of Marketing Partners, Google India IBM appoints Deepali Naair as director, digital sales centre Wipro appoints Jasjit Singh Kang as head of digital operations and platforms Ranveer Singh joins Apna as Head of Engineering – Communities Amazon ropes in Vivek Srivastava as Head of Partnerships for Prime Video Channels, India Reliance Jio ropes in Akila Jayaraman as Head Of Sales Strategy Lenovo appoints Chandrika Jain as India marketing director Meta CEO Zuckerberg promotes Nick Clegg to lead on policy issues Coforge appoints Vishal Dixit as Senior Vice President & Country Head Varun Singla joins Airtel as SVP, CISO Yahoo elevates Paul Sigaloff as VP & Head of APAC EdTech platform Leap Scholar appoints Zuhaib Khan as VP of International Expansion Airtel gets Preeti Jain as VP-HR Accenture announces change in executive leadership team Mindshare China MD Vinish Mathews moves on SoCheers announces elevations to strengthen leadership MediaCom Srinivas Rao moves to Wavemaker Reliance Jio Errol Marquis moves on from the company Vodafone Idea’s CDO Reema Jain steps down, telco realigns consumer digital business Virginia Sharma steps down from JioSaavn as VP – brand solutions
Others	read more
CredAvenue appoints Mathangi Sri as chief data officer Anuj Jain appointed as Managing Director of Kansai Nerolac Paints Athar Shahab elevated as Managing Director of Zuari Global Cressanda Solutions appoints Soumyadri Shekhar Bose as Managing Director CFA Institute appoints new regional MD for marketing and societies Calm acquires Ripple Health Group; appoints new co-CEO Arjuna Natural appoints Anup Krishnan as new CEO Duroflex elevates Mohanraj J as CEO Vinay Subramanyam to join Pidilite Adobe India’s Sunder Madakshira joins Rezolve as CEO in India Smaaash appoints Shirish Kotmire as CEO Prasuma promotes Lisa Suwal to CEO Mahendra S Bhadouria to head OMA Living as CEO TCM Flooring appoints Shyam Bhatter as CEO Tata-owned Taneira has appointed Ambuj Narayan as the CEO Duroflex elevates Mohanraj Jagannivasan as CEO Yash Pakka appoints Satish Chamyvelumani as CEO – Compostables Division RattanIndia Enterprises appoints Chandramouli Venkataraman as CEO of Cocoblu Retail Yash Pakka names new CEO of its Compostable Division in Satish Chamyvelumani Mr. Amarendu Prakash Assumes Additional Charge of Director In-charge (Burnpur & DSP), SAIL Shivani Priya steps up as ICRA’s additional Director Nureca board appoints Sushil Bhardwaj as Additional Director and Whole-time Director SG Analytics appoints Sid Banerjee as Advisory Board Member WhiteHat Jr ropes in Shreshtha Mathur as Assistant Vice President Growth MarketsandMarkets appoints Sumantra Mukherjee as AVP of Brand & Communications Indian Oil stock trades in green as Sujoy Chaudhary joins the Board ADP appoints David Goeckeler to Board of Directors Do Your Thng appoints Proteek Dey as Business Head Licious appoints Vidyanand Krishnan as chief customer officer & Meeta Aggarwal as CFO Scania elevates Jonas Rickberg as CFO Gati appoints Anish Mathew as CFO Calm acquires Ripple Health Group; appoints new co-CEO N. Chandrasekaran reappointed Tata Sons chairman for another 5 years Rajesh Padmanabhan appointed chairman at HONO Balmer Lawrie & Co. elevates Ratna Sekhar Adika to chairman & MD BARC India appoints Vikram Sakhuja as chairman of the technical committee JNU VC Jagadesh Kumar named as next chairperson of Universal Grant Commission Licious appoints Vidyanand Krishnan as Cheif Customer Officer Myntra Harish Narayanan joins Upstox as Chief Growth Officer Hero MotoCorp creates new management position; elevates Ranjivjit Singh as Chief Growth Officer Ashika Group appoints Vishesh Sharma as chief marketing officer Provident Housing appoints Mallanna Sasalu as Chief Operating Officer Russell Reynolds Associates (RRA) appoints Renée Bell as Chief People Officer Kaizzen appoints Soumya Dev as Chief Strategy Officer Ecom Express appoints Ashish Sikka as Chief Strategy Officer Volta Trucks appoints Steve Dichter as Chief Strategy Officer Schneider Electric appoints Gwenaelle Avice-Huet as Chief Strategy, Sustainability Officer Blox appoints Amit Goel as Chief Technology Officer Lendingkart appoints Asit Kumar as CHRO and Nitin Shiralkar as SVP, Product Engineering Satyadeep Mishra joins OYO as CHRO for tech & corporate teams Neha Rana Dutta appointed CHRO, Espire Hospitality Shri S. R. Narasimhan takes additional charge as CMD, POSOCO PESB selected Mr. Binesh Kumar Tyagi for SCI CMD post Cashify names Nakul Kumar as CMO, announces key elevations Instamojo names Ankur Sharma as co-founder Viacom18 CEO Jyoti Deshpande appointed Co-Chair of FICCI Media & Entertainment Board ESPL appoints Shareen Bhatia as Country Head – Business Solutions Graymatics appoints Rahul Bhardwaj as country head for India and South Asia Jellysmack ropes in Vipasha Joshi to lead India expansion AppsFlyer ropes in Ritu Sharma as its new country manager in India Maral Kazanjian takes charge as CPO at Moody’s Wondrlab ropes in Siddhyesh Narkar as CTO MX Player Vivek Saxena joins InMobi as Director – Agency, Programmatic & New Business Shri K. Mohan Reddy takes charge as Director (P&P), NLC India Vibhas Sen joins LawSikho as director of marketing Shri Sanjay Khanna takes over as Director Refinery, BPCL Shri Ramesh Chandra Joshi assumes charge as Director, Finance of NALCO Shri B. Veera Reddy takes charge as Director-Technical, CIL Havas Media Group appoints Chandra P Dobhal as EVP- investment Board of Godrej Agrovet approves appointment of Executive Director Quess Corp elevates Guruprasad Srinivasan as executive director and group CEO Welspun Anuj Arora joins Symphony as Global CMO Kate Broer appointed global inclusion & diversity officer, Dentons BARC India’s Ankita Maheshwari joins Sony Music as GM- HR & CSR (India & Middle East) K Gopala Desikan appointed Director and Group CFO of Sundaram-Clayton Pooja B Luthra joins Trident as Group CHRO IDAM House Of Brands names Rajat Khullar as Group Vice President, Business Gaurav Barjatya joins Times Professional Learning as Head – Brand Marketing & Comms Disney Star elevates Harry Griffith as Head – Rights Acquisition & Syndication (Sports) Wealthy.in gets Vivek Singh as head-HR Arha Padman joins Sleepyhead as Head of Brand Marketing Nesh.LIVE appoints Giridhar Joshi as Head of Engineering YULU appoints Manjunath Athrey as Head of Engineering Subramanya Srikant joins ReshaMandi as Head of Human Resources Melorra ropes in Kushal Singh as Head of Marketing Samiran Gupta to head public policy for Twitter in India Wondrlab ropes Shama Sayed as head of sales JetSynthesys announces two key appointments for its gaming investment arm Pernod Recard India appoints Zainab Patel as head-D&I; pushes for diversity Ranjith KP joins Palo Alto Network as HR director Shabdsharan Brahmbhatt appointed as independent director on IREDA board Zoomcar appoints Nirmal NR as India CEO Korn Ferry elevates Sandeep Bhalla as India Consulting Head, hires two partners JetSynthesys announces two key appointments for its gaming investment MediaCom’s K Srinivas Rao joins Wavemaker ONGC appoints Dr Madhav Singh as Non-official Independent Director; Stock surges 2% Shane G Eddy named president of Pratt & Whitney Intellect announces appointment of Uppili Srinivasan as President IKEA India appoints Susanne Pulverer as CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer Ex-Bosch head of engineering Pradeep Kumar Keloth joins Skill-Lync hBits appoints Krishna Menon as Senior Vice President – Engineering Upstox onboards Jayant Chauhan as Senior Vice President – Finance Pickrr ropes in Vineet Budhiraja as Senior Vice President, Operations Easebuzz appoints Nikhil Goel as Senior VP & Group Head- Sales Easebuzz appoints Rohit Katyal as Senior VP & Group Sales Head Lendingkart appoints Asit Kumar as CHRO and Nitin Shiralkar as SVP, Product Engineering WOW Skin Science appoints Dabur
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