February 2024

	February 2024

BFSI CONSUMER_ECOMM GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE HOSPITALITY MANUFACTURING INFRASTRUCTURE LEGAL_LAW MEDIA OTHERS TECHNOLOGY
BFSI	read more
MoneyGram Accelerates Global Digital Strategy with Appointment of New Senior Hires Aditya Birla Money appoints Anju Jumde as Head- HR & Admin Nippon India Mutual Fund appoints Kaiyomurz Daver as Chief Marketing Officer FSN E-Commerce Ventures appoints Neelabja Chakrabarty as Company Secretary and Compliance Officer Angel One appoints Meenal Maheshwari Shah as Group General Counsel Preqin appoints Gurkan Tasoren as Head of Sales, APAC DCB Bank re-appoints Anuradha T P as Chief Internal Auditor BharatPe Group appoints Rohan Khara as Chief Product Officer Aptia appoints Roopa Abraham Kochhar as Chief People Officer LIC Mutual Fund appoints Ravi Kumar Jha as MD and CEO Tata AIA Life appoints Venkatachalam H. as CEO and MD Mahindra Group announces leadership rejig Asian Development Bank appoints Mio Oka as country director for India Tata AIA Life appoints Venkatachalam H as CEO & MD MobiKwik elevates Mohit Narain as Chief Operating Officer – Consumer Payments Lodha Ventures onboards Mahesh Shah as president of corporate communications Vishal Singh resigns as CIO of Suryoday Small Finance Bank CarePal Money appoints Sahil Lakshmanan as Chief Business Officer UCO Bank appoints Aravamudan Krishna Kumar to its Board Mohammed Turra steps down as SVP – Leasing Business of Mahindra Finance Mahendra Lodha resigns as CFO of PTC India Financial Services TerraPay appoints Ruben Salazar Genovez as President Godrej Capital appoints Bhavya Misra as CHRO Personetics appoints Udi Ziv as new CEO Global X ETFs appoints Ryan O’Connor as CEO ATFX hires Aditya Singh as Business Development Director Institutional at ATFX MENA Capri Global Capital appoints Vivek Jain as CHRO Policybazaar for Business announces three appointments to its advisory board SBM Bank India appoints Ashish Vijayakar as MD & CEO CRISIL appoints Saugata Saha to its Board DSP Mutual Fund appoints Chirag Joshi as Head of Distributor Success & B2B growth Leadership rejigs at Kotak Mahindra Bank under new CEO and MD Sundaram AMC appoints industry veteran Anand Radhakrishnan as CEO SBI Capital Markets names Virendra Bansal as new MD and CEO PwC welcomes Anirban Das as Senior Director – Human Capital Visa names Shruti Gupta as VP & Head of CMS, India and South Asia Amita Maheshwari to move out of Kedaara Capital Star Health and Allied Insurance ropes in Diana Monteiro as VP of corporate communications Flourish Ventures announces executive changes Alok Kedia joins Brickwork Ratings as MD & CEO Kotak Mahindra Bank appoints Prasanna Kotian as Head of Group Corporate Communication MoneyHero Group appoints Rohith Murthy as CEO CHRO movements of the month: These companies welcome new HR heads Vijay Shekhar Sharma steps down as Chairman of Paytm Payments Bank\ Sahil Lakshmanan joins CarePal Money as chief business officer PayPal appoints Geoff Seeley as its Chief Marketing Officer
CONSUMER_ECOMM	read more
PUMA appoints Julie Legrand to lead Global Brand Strategy PVR Inox appoints Dinesh Kanabar and Shishir Baijal to its Board Allcargo Logistics re-appoints Radha Ahluwalia to its Board Air India appoints Ravindra Kumar G P as CHRO ACL Airshop appoints Bernhard Kindelbacher as CEO Waldencast names Manuel Manfredi as CFO HUL announces leadership changes to its Management Committee HUL’s Nitin Paranjpe to retire this year Rajneesh Chopra named new Amway India CEO Daniel Ervér named President-CEO for H&M BCCL’s Malcolm Raphael joins Sideways Consulting as Chief Growth Officer Ground Zero Consulting ropes in Ankit Doshi as head – strategy Nikhil Sharma joins Perfetti Van Melle India as managing director Ankit Jaiswal joins CarDekho South East Asia as Legal and Compliance Head Tata Group announces key HR leadership moves: Kandi to Tata Motors, Kumar to Air India Jason Ding to lead Bain & Company’s Greater China business ST Digital appoints Chirag Patel as COO and Rishipratim Dasgupta as VP – Music Business GD Goenka Group appoints Dr. Amrita Bahl as Chief Education Officer eBay Inc. appoints Zane Rowe to its Board Abhishek Sapra resigns as President – Finance of Archies VLCC elevates Vikas Gupta to MD & Group CEO Unilever appoints Mairead Nayager as Chief People Officer Anandh Sundar appointed to CERA Sanitaryware Board Jet Freight Logistics appoints Deepak Dinesh Kacha as interim CFO GB Srithar joins VFS Global as Head of Tourism Services Boeing names Nikhil Joshi as MD of Boeing Defense India KPI Partners welcomes Ramya Nagaraj as HR director SolarEdge Technologies welcomes Ratika G as senior director- HR Myntra ropes in Venu Nair as Chief of Strategic Partnerships and Omni Channel Flipkart Group’s Ayappan R moves on after 11 years Samyukta Ganesh Iyer joins Sephora as Chief Experience Officer: VP & Head of Marketing Hershey India’s Marketing Director Ankit Desai takes on global role Kriti Kohli named Digital Communications Officer, University of Southampton Priya Rege Jaggi moves on from Meta, joins McDonald’s as Associate Director, Marketing CARS24 appoints Arpit Srivastava as Head of Brand Versuni appoints Véronique Pauwels as new President & CEO Neeti Sharma appointed CEO – TeamLease Digital Nat Habit onboards Ankita Srivastava as Chief Marketing Officer CHRO movements of the month: These companies welcome new HR heads Ravi Mishra joins BITS Pilani as head-HR Ayyappan Rajagopal moves on from Flipkart Group Swiggy ropes in Abhishek Shetty as marketing lead – Instamart VLCC elevates Vikas Gupta to the positions of MD and group CEO Arpit Srivastava appointed as head of the brand at CARS24 Bisleri elevates Tushar Malhotra to Director of Sales & Marketing Mohit Kumar elevated to Head of Media and Digital at Yum! Brands World Gold Council appoints Sachin Jain as new India CEO
GOVERNMENT	read more
5 tasks awaiting MIB Secy Sanjay Jaju USISPF ropes in Salil Parekh to its Board of Directors
HEALTHCARE	read more
Sanofi CHC India appoints Zepto’s CHRO Roma Bindroo as People Director & Head of HR Paul Arthur Dueman joins Meril as general manager of marketing Thyrocare Technologies appoints Nitin Chugh as Chief Commercial Officer CMR Surgical hires Sushobhan Dasgupta to drive operations across Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa Novartis India appoints Gira Sardesai to its Board Panacea Biotec appoints Ambika Sharma to its Board Boston Scientific appoints Madan Krishnan to lead India Subcontinent Sekhmet Pharmaventures onboards Uma Rao Ganduri as CHRO Curativity appoints Aarti Srinivasan and Neha M Dhanani to leadership team Charlotte Hanneman to succeed Abhijit Bhattacharya as Philips’ CFO ReNAgade Therapeutics appoints Joe Bolen as Chief Science Innovation Officer CHRO movements of the month: These companies welcome new HR heads CARE Hospitals Group names Shalabh Dang as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
HOSPITALITY	read more
Exclusive: Ayub Ali joins Ramee Group as Corporate HR Head unveils plans for hiring & retention Mahindra Group announces leadership rejig JW Marriott Chandigarh elevates Tenzin Phunstok as executive chef Ashish Tiwari promoted to F&B manager of DoubleTree by Hilton Baani Square Gurugram Hilton, Hilton Garden Inn Bengaluru Embassy Manyata Business Park appointments Stephen George joins Renaissance Bengaluru Race Course Hotel as director F&B Nicky Esther John appointed cluster marketing manager of Kochi Marriott Pratiti Rajpal appointed as general manager for Ronil Goa Ena Roy appointed as director ops at Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel Appointments at DoubleTree by Hilton, Goa Panaji JW Marriott New Delhi appoints Vivek Gomes Pereira as hotel manager JW Marriott Mumbai Sahar appoints Prakash Chettiyar as director of culinary Manish Koolwal appointed director of finance of Hyatt Regency Dehradun Ravindra Bhandari appointed F&B Manager at Westin Pushkar Resort World Hotels and Resorts appoints Dhiman Mazumdar as COO Manoj Bhat set to replace Kavinder Singh as MD & CEO of Mahindra Holidays Deep Preet Bindra appointed GM of Westin Hyderabad Mindspace HostBooks appoints RD Mishra as VP f&B to drive growth in hospitality sector Hilton Chennai welcomes Yoganathan AG as HR director Shana Susan Ninan appointed Cluster Director of Marketing for 17 Marriott hotels in India Avik Sarkar takes on new role as Mars business head for South-East and South Asia Viral Jasani is now director-HR, The Westin Mumbai Garden City IHG Hotels & Resorts welcomes Jacob John Paul as HR director
MANUFACTURING	read more
CK Birla Group appoints Sandeep Gautam as Group Head – Corporate HR Pfizer Ltd re-appoints Meena Ganesh as Independent Director Binani Industries appoints Archana Manoj Shroff as MD cum CFO Sitaram Kandi announced as the new CHRO of Tata Motors RP Sanjiv Goenka Group appoints Subir Verma as CHRO – Power Business Arun Surendra appointed as Chairman of VST Tillers Tractors Limited ATHA Energy appoints Suraj Ahuja as Technical Advisor Castrol India re-appoints Rakesh Makhija to its Board Sterling Tools Limited appoints Rashmi Urdhwareshe and Anish Agarwal to its Board Luminous Power Tech appoints Rubi Khan as Head of Culture, Learning, Talent & DEI SkodaAuto Volkswagen India names Jan Bures as EVP-Sales, Marketing & Digital Western Copper and Gold appoints Sandeep Singh as CEO Infra.Market appoints three new Independent Directors to its Board Whirlpool Corporation appoints Richard J. Kramer to its Board ABB India appoints Kapil Agarwal as Process Automation Process Industries India Business Head Trident Group appoints Samir Joshipura as Group CEO Carlsberg India appoints Vandana Kapur as VP – HR Enerflex appoints Preet Dhindsa as SVP and CFO Alphawave Semi appoints Charlie Roach as Chief Revenue Officer Bridgestone India names Hiroshi Yoshizane as MD Aditya Birla Textiles welcomes Chandra Bhattacharjee as CHRO Ritika Chandhok joins RHI Magnesita as Head of Communications and Public Affairs Shishir Mishra elevated as brand director for Citroën in India Jignesh Shah to head media and digital marketing at Adani Wilmar Nilesh Malani moves on from Polycab India as its CMO Ultraviolette appoints Ajay Shanker as CFO VIP Industries appoints Manish Desai as CFO; reassigns Neetu Kashiramka as MD Mahindra & Mahindra ropes in Swati Khandelwal as SVP and head of group corporate communications Sudipta Chakraborty joins Aditya Birla Group as Vice President – Group Legal & Compliance Curia appoints Steve Lavezoli as VP of Biologics CHRO movements of the month: These companies welcome new HR heads Michael D’Ambrose retires, Uma Amuluru appointed CHRO & executive VP-HR, Boeing M Shyamprasad Kamath will lead MRPL as MD Mukesh Agrawal takes charge at Coal India as New Director (Finance) N. Franklin Jayakumar takes over Director (Technical) charge at SECL Vivek Kumar Gupta assumed charge as NHSRCL’s MD Shri Jai Prakash Dwivedi assumed charge as WCL CMD Manish Kumar Director (Personnel) assumes additional charge of CMD NCL
INFRASTRUCTURE	read more
Godrej Properties re-appoints Pirojsha Godrej as Executive Chairperson Welspun Living appoints Sunil Duggal as Independent Director Schneider Electric welcomes Preeti Gupta Mohanty as CFO Tribeca Developers welcome Simantika Mukherjee as CHRO Tribeca taps Tata realty veteran to lead HR growth Yamin Shihab appointed as MD for Colliers Project Leaders- Middle East Siemens Smart Infrastructure India appoints Apeksha Jain as HR Head Boeing appoints Uma Amuluru as CHRO Alta Equipment Group appoints Sidhartha Nair as Director MRPL names Mundkur S Kamath as Managing Director CHRO movements of the month: These companies welcome new HR heads Ms. Sangeeta Kaushik appointed MD of Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Geeta Kapur steps in as SJVN CMD (Additional Charge)
LEGAL_LAW	read more
SAM Tax Partner Amit Singhania sets up a new firm – Areete Law Offices Divi Dutta joins Khaitan & Co as a Partner in Private Client Practice Chitra Raghavan joins Rajaram Legal as Partner in General Corporate practice LKS onboards Jivesh Chandrayan and Sudin Sabnis as Partners Karthik Somasundram joins Spice Route Legal as Partner in disputes practice Ankita Mishra joins Nothing Technology as Head of Legal (India) Royzz & Co. elevates Muthu Pandi to Partnership Goldman Sachs Executive Director Pallavi Banerjee joins Trilegal as Partner Haroon Asrar joins Solomon & Co. as Partner and Head of Pune Offic Jay Maroli appointed General Counsel at GE Vernova Basava Rao joins Tatva Legal as a Partner in Corporate practice Singularity Legal expands to Singapore with Rohit Bhattacharya at the helm Former Bira 91 legal head Vandana Bedi joins Vertiv as Vice-President, General Counsel Jacqueline Aikin joins JCSS Law as Partner – Corporate and Commercial Dentons Link Legal elevates Abhinav Sharma to Partnership IC Universal Legal appoints Tejesh Chitlangi and Kavitha Vijay as Joint Managing Partners Luthra Partner Asim Abbas sets up new firm – Spectra Law LKS onboards Jivesh Chandrayan and Sudin Sabnis as Partners Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas adds four lawyers to management board
MEDIA	read more
Shemaroo Entertainment appoints Pooja Sutradhar as Company Secretary and Compliance Officer Is Keigan Pinto moving out of FCB India? Susan Credle named first-ever IPG Creative Advisor S4’s Media.Monks names Robert Godinho as Managing Director – Content for India Joji Jacob appointed as Regional CCO for Havas Southeast Asia and North Asia Update Geotarget ropes in Gaurish Pathare as Managing Partner Planet Marathi OTT appoints filmmaker Abhijit Panse as Director of Content Amit Kumar Sinha elevated to Chief Strategy Officer of India TV MENA added to Gaurav Gandhi’s portfolio at Prime Video Andrés Ordóñez named FCB’s Global Chief Creative Officer Karan Abhishek Singh to move on from Network18 Mirum India appoints Mihir Karkare as MD; Hareesh Tibrewala and Sanjay Mehta move on Bodhisatva Ganguli joins Network18 as Group Consulting Editor Viacom18 Digital Ventures COO Gourav Rakshit steps down Gaurav Mishra joins Bennett Coleman as VP-Strategy Senior journalist Sanjay Singh joins IANS Shamsher Singh quits India Daily Live Banijay Asia expands into southeast Asia with CreAsia Studio, appoints Jessica Kam-Engle as EVP Media.Monks elevates Robert Godinho as managing director of content for India Rimona Ganapathy joins Red Bangle as senior VP – creative services Two99 welcomes Vishnu Kanth Gokul as chief growth officer to spearhead digital and media sales Rishi Palak joins WPP as the influencer lead of StudioX Ad land’s young guns: Abhishek Pujar, Partnerships Manager, India & South Asia, IAS Gypsy Moth appoints Mansi Mehta as Head – HR News18 Network names Mitul Sangani as CEO-Indian Languages business Jaibeer Ahmad to move out of Havas India Rajnish Ahuja steps down as Editor, Zee News Sanjay Trehan joins YuktaMedia as Advisor Megha Tata moves on from Cosmos Maya FCB India elevates Udayan Chakravorty & Anusheela Saha as National Creative Directors Creativeland Asia appoints Divya Agarwal as Chief Strategy Officer Ajay Rao joins Outlook Publishing as VP (South) and National Head – Growth Vertical Dr Samir Shah named new Chairman of BBC Heeru Dingra moves on from dentsu India Tatler Asia appoints Parminder Singh as COO India Today appoints Manash Chakraborty as National Sales Head for Live & Connected TV VML retains Wunderman Thompson senior management India Daily Live News appoints Jitender Kumar as a Chief Revenue Officer-Ad Sales B. Ramanathan to return to Ogilvy India as Chief Client Officer NDTV India appoints Vikas Bhadauria as Editor, National Affairs Mugdha Mishra joins NDTV India as Editor, Auto Warner Music India appoints Vaibhav Nagpal as Head of Partner Relations, Music Acquisition Toaster India ropes in Mohini Varma and Abhishek Deshwal Kunal Jerath joins Red FM as national marketing head iCubesWire appoints Nivedita Dwivedi as senior business director Collective Artists Network welcomes Dhruv Sheth to lead the M19 joint venture Famous Innovations announces new leadership in Delhi Indian-origin Samir Shah becomes new chairman of BBC Toaster India ropes in Mohini Varma and Abhishek Deshwal FCB India announces new creative leadership and departure of creative chairperson The PRactice onboards Zacharia James and Rishi Seth as investors and partners Curativity announces appointments of Aarti Srinivasan and Neha M Dhanani VML India announces new leadership team MSL India appoints Pallavi Bahuguna as north lead Hareesh Tibrewala and Sanjay Mehta step down as Joint CEOs of Mirum India; Mihir Karkare takes charge Mahesh Bhupathi named CEO of SG Sports and Entertainment NOFILTR.Group ropes in Hitarth Dadia as Partner & CEO Sagnik Ghosh joins Times of India Group Gaurang Menon joins Hashtag Orange as Regional & Creative Head – West region Manu Kumar Jain announces founding team of G42 Nat Habit onboards Ankita Srivastava as Chief Marketing Officer
OTHERS	read more
USISPF appoints Joe Ucuzoglu, Raj Shah, Alex Rogers, and Prashant Ruia to its Board CHRO movements of the month: These companies welcome new HR heads
TECHNOLOGY	read more
SecureKloud Technologies appoints Suresh Venkatachari as CEO, S. Ramachandran as CFO Biz2X appoints Pankaj Sharma as Chief Revenue Officer Collabera Digital appoints Kaushik Sarkar as President AGS Transact Technologies re-appoints Vinayak R Goyal and Stanley Johnson Panacherry to its Board Maveric Systems appoints Anil Sachdev and N S Parthasarathy to its Board Mindteck appoints Harish A. Nair as Chief Sales Officer ContourGlobal appoints Antonio Cammisecra as CEO Aura appoints Ravi Narula as CFO Flash.co appoints Amit Verma as Chief Product and Technology Oﬃcer SKF names Manish Bhatnagar as President, Industrial Region Americas Rimini Street appoints Gertrude Van Horn as CIO Naveen Tahilyani appointed as Tata Digital CEO & MD; Pratik Pal steps down Muon India welcomes Susan Joy as head HR Nokia names Tarun Chhabra as new India head upGrad appoints Ankur Nyati as President – Study Abroad Swiggy’s Sneha John joins Pincode as Director-Brand Swiggy names Ashwath Swaminathan as Chief Growth & Marketing Officer Dilip Venkatraman gets new role at Tech Mahindra as SVP & Business Head (M&E) PR Professionals appoints Sanjay Gupta as chief executive officer Devadas Krishnan becomes the co-founder of Stealth Mode AI/ML Valueleaf Group appoints Vijesh Vijayan as VP of marketing and communications Ola announces ex-Unilever executive Hemant Bakshi as new CEO Pure Storage appoints Fredy Cheung as Area Vice President for Asia Eventbrite hires Himanshu Verma as VP Engineering and Country Lead India AdhereTech appoints Paul Sekhri to its Board of Directors Sandy Motley appointed Country Manager for Nokia in the U.S. Fulcrum Digital ropes in Krishnakumar Hariharan as Global Head – Talent Acquisition Crystal appoints Navin Gupta as CEO Clarifai appoints Amith Nair as President and COO Starlab Space names Tim Kopra as CEO, Mohit Sharma as CFO Prodapt appoints Manish Vyas to its Board of Directors IGT Solutions appoints Katie Stein as new CEO UnitedLex appoints Renee Meisel as General Counsel, Shelley Armitage as Director, IP Services & Solutions Aryaka appoints Shailesh Shukla as CEO and Chairman ExaGrid appoints Rohan Cook as AVP of APAC Sales Netradyne elevates Pooja Madappa to Senior VP to lead HR globally John Radford joins Compport’s advisory board Swiggy ropes in Abhishek Shetty as Marketing Lead – Instamart Fello onboards Snigdha Sunil as Head of Marketing Tathagat Jena elevated as Head of Marketing, DTC & Online Biz head, India & APAC at HMD PubMatic’s Peter Barry returns to APAC as VP, Addressability and Commerce Media Archana Vohra joins Google as MD, Payments & Commerce, APAC Shivaram Lakshminarayan joins Ruder Finn India as COO Kofluence appoints Sohail Qadri Khan as vice president – client success Microsoft appoints Pallavi Walia as director of communications, India & South Asia Ipsos India appoints Malvika Mani as ED; expands Archana Gupta’s role to spearhead shopper research SocioClout appoints Abhilash Singh as chief revenue officer to drive revenue growth The PRactice onboards Zacharia James and Rishi Seth as investors and partners MSL India appoints Pallavi Bahuguna as north lead Atos announces evolution of its Board of Directors Cin7 appoints Ajoy Krishnamoorthy as CEO MosChip Technologies names Sri Lakshmi Simhadri as VP – Head, Semicon Business Unit CHRO movements of the month: These companies welcome new HR heads Bhargavi Divi is senior director – talent acquisition, SMC Squared India Mr. Sanjay Kumar Jain appointed as CMD of IRCTC Amit Gupta to head Milagrow Humantech Salesforce ropes in Ashim Gupta as vice president of communications Creativeland Asia ropes in Divya Agarwal as chief strategy officer
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