October 2023

	October 2023

BFSI CONSUMER_ECOMM GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING INFRASTRUCTURE LEGAL_LAW MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
BFSI	read more
Canara Bank appoints Bhavendra Kumar as Executive Director Bank of Baroda appoints Lal Singh to its Board UCO Bank appoints Vijaykumar Nivrutti Kamble as Executive Director ESG Book appoints John Wise as new Chair Motilal Oswal Equity appoints Saptarshi Bhattacharya as Chief People Officer Punjab National Bank appoints Jatinder Singh Bajaj as Shareholder Director Punjab & Sind Bank appoints Ravi Mehra as Executive Director Solomon Partners appoints Karan Garg as Head of Healthcare Services, Brad Hildebrand as MD KKR appoints Kasper Rørsted as Senior Advisor UTI AMC appoints Vinay Lakhotia as chief financial officer P R Seshadri takes charge as MD & CEO of South Indian Bank Invest India appoints Amulya Sah as Senior Vice President- HR Future Generali India Insurance gets Rajesh Gupta as VP-HR HUDCO appoints Sanjay Kulshrestha as Chairman & MD Mela Ventures appoints Viju George as Partner HDFC Life Insurance Company re-appoints Bharti Gupta Ramola as Independent Director ING appoints Sjoerd Miltenburg as Head of Investor Relations Future Generali India Insurance Company appoints Akshaya Kashyap as Chief People Officer TRUST Mutual Fund appoints Mihir Vora as Chief Investment Officer IAN Group appoints Sarika Saxena as Managing Partner at IAN Alpha Fund Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. to retire as Chairman of Visa’s Board of Directors; Lead Independent Director John F. Lundgren to be named Chair IIFL Finance appoints Abhiram Bhattacharjee as Chief of Staff Bandhan Bank appoints Abhijit Ghosh as interim CFO IIFL Securities appoints Nemkumar H to its Board Mela Ventures appoints Viju George as Partner Ethos expands footprint in India, hires Vijay Ratnam as MD ING appoints Sjoerd Miltenburg as Head of Investor Relations Branch International appoints Krishna Priya as Head of People for India Motilal Oswal Equity welcomes Saptarshi Bhattacharya as chief people officer Future Generali India Insurance gets Rajesh Gupta as VP-HR P R Seshadri takes charge as MD & CEO of South Indian Bank UTI AMC appoints Vinay Lakhotia as chief financial officer IIFL Finance appoints T S Ramakrishnan to its Board Axis Bank Names Munish Sharda As Its Executive Director Ex-Flipkart senior executive Sushanth Ravikumar to head marketing at Niyo Pankaj Adhav joins Yes Securities as SVP – HR Sanghamitra Bhargov joins Cashfree Payments as Director – PR & Corporate Communications Future Generali India promotes Akshaya Kashyap as CPO Amulya Sah joins Invest India as CHRO and senior VP Rajesh Gupta appointed VP – human resources, FGII Company Pankaj Adhav joins Yes Securities as SVP – HR Piramal Enterprises elevates Manjul Tilak to CHRO Kotak Mahindra Bank to Appoint International Banker, Ashok Vaswani as MD & CEO Cashfree Payments appoints Sanghamitra Bhargov as Director – PR & Corporate Communications SBI General Insurance appoints Rakesh Kaul as Chief Business Officer ACC OKs appointment of 12 EDs for PSBs including BoB, BoI, PNB, UCO Bank, and more
CONSUMER_ECOMM	read more
Flipkart: Amrendra Saxena elevated to Director-Customer Loyalty and Retention Honasa Consumer appoints Nishchay Bahl as Senior Vice President For offline business Rochelle Pinto is Head of Editorial Content for Vogue India Arvind Fashions appoints Govind Shridhar Shrikhande as Independent Director Soren Bjorn named CEO of Driscoll’s Shobhit Shrivastava joins CARS24 as Senior Director of Engineering Dunzo faces leadership shift as second co-founder Mukund Jha resigns within seven days ZEEL appoints Deepu Bansal as Independent Director for 3 years Vishal Mega Mart appoints Dhruva Dubey as CHRO Soch Apparels appoints Deepak Mahnot as Chief Marketing Officer Crompton announces new Board appointments Domino’s appoints Sam Jackson as Executive Vice President of Human Resources Borosil appoints Sweta Kochar as CHRO Bata India appoints Gerd Graehsler to its Board byteXL’s appoints senior education experts to its leadership team Soren Bjorn named CEO of Driscoll’s Sneha Beriwal moves out of VAHDAM Soch Apparels appoints Deepak Mahnot as CMO BYJU’S appoints Pradip Kanakia as Senior Advisor; Nitin Golani gets add’l role as CFO Vishal Mega Mart onboards Dhruva Dubey as CHRO Flipkart chief people officer Krishna Raghavan resigns MPS appoints Suhas Khullar as Additional Director Priya Nair named President-Beauty & Wellbeing at Unilever Madison Media onboards Avinash Pillai as Advisor for Godrej Consumer Lalit Kar elevated as senior VP – workforce management at Reliance Retail Satish Nair joins Zappfresh as the senior vice president of retail Mallika Mutreja joins Godrej Agrovet as CHRO ONDC announces Rachita Gupta as new vice president- communications Srikanth VK joins Croma as chief digital officer Swiggy SteppinOut’s Founder Safdhar Adoor joins VRO Hospitality Lalit Kar elevated as senior VP – workforce management at Reliance Retail Vishal Mega Mart ropes in Dhruva Dubey as CHRO Anant Goenka appointed vice chairman, RPG Group Nishchay Bahl appointed as Senior Vice President For The Offline Business of Honasa Consumer
GOVERNMENT	read more
Jean Touboul elected as President of the Indo-French Chamber of Commerce & Industry PESB recommends Ravindra Kumar for Director, Operation of NTPC BHEL appoints Koppu Sadashiv Murthy as CMD Sadhna Saxena Nair becomes first lady to take charge as c Shri A.K. Manohar takes charge as Project Head of NTPC Kanti Sanjay Kulshrestha takes over as Chairman & Managing Director, HUDCO Ajay Kumar Sahani assumes charge as Chief Vigilance Officer at IREDA Anurag Malviya Assumes charge of Director (Personnel) of ECIL BHEL appoints Bani Verma as Director (Industrial Systems & Products) IOCL, India’s leading oil company appoints new Director (Finance) Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan AVSM VSM assumes charge as Chief of Personnel Indian Navy CONCOR’s new CMD Sanjay Swarup assumes charge Achyut Ghatak takes over as Director (Technical) of CMPDI
HEALTHCARE	read more
Zydus appoints Punit Patel as President and CEO to lead its business operations in North America Mankind Pharma appoints Prateek Dubey as President – Global CHRO Sequent Scientific CFO P V Raghavendra Rao resigns Venus Concept appoints Dr. Hemanth Varghese as President and COO Sequent Scientific CFO P V Raghavendra Rao resigns Venus Concept appoints Dr. Hemanth Varghese as President and COO Oasis Fertility onboards Samidha Mohanty as CHRO Pathkind Labs welcomes Vivek Vashisth as HR head Pfizer Ltd appoints P. Rengan as Executive Director of Plant Operations Kapiva appoints R Govindarajan as Chief Innovation Officer Sanjay Koul is the CMO of Mankind Pharma Vivek Vashisth joins Pathkind Labs as Head – HR
HOSPITALITY	read more
Himanshu Sharma is Director of Sales & Marketing at Pullman & Novotel New Delhi Aerocity Pride Hotels Group appoints Chandrashekhar Belose as Corporate Chief Engineer. Bengaluru Marriott Whitefield appoints Girish Pawan Kumar Agoor as Director of Engineering Fortune Resort Benaulim Goa appoints Chaitra Dwivedi as new General Manager Courtyard by Marriott Pune Chakan appoints Vikram Bajpe as Director of Sales Vivek Mahajan takes the helm as General Manager of Grand Mercure Agra ITC Grand Central appoints Anurag Mishra as Head of Human Resources Novotel ibis Chennai OMR and Novotel Chennai Sipcot welcomes new leadership Lilac Hotels appoints Kannan as Hotel Manager Saravanan Ranganathan joins The Westin Chennai Velachery as Executive Chef M R Synrem joins as Managing Director of ITDC New Director of Operations Vedagiri Rajaram joins JW Marriott Kolkata M. Santosh Kumar appointed as Executive Chef at DoubleTree by Hilton Goa Pullman & Novotel Aerocity welcomes Himanshu Sharma as Director of Sales and Marketing Novotel Pune appoints Mangesh Darole as Security Manager Phulay Bay appoints Michelin-Starred Chef Christian Herrgesell Sarita Untawale appointed Cluster Marketing Manager at JW Marriott Pune & Courtyard Pune Hinjewadi Kamat Hotels India Ltd. appoints Varun Sahani as Senior VP of Operations Virgin Atlantic announces Shivani Singh Deo as the Country Manager for India Hyatt Regency Pune promotes Vikram Singh as Head Pastry Chef Arpit Pant appointed Director of Business Development for Ascott International Atul Bhalla takes over as Vice President Operations – North & West, ITC Hotels, India Prashant Thakur takes over as Director of Operations at Hyatt Centric Candolim Goa Shangri-La Eros New Delhi appoints Asim Mamgain as Resident Manager Kunal Pahwa returns as General Manager of ITC Grand Central Courtyard by Marriott Pune Chakan appoints Vikram Bajpe as Director of Sales M R Synrem joins ITDC as the managing director Annapurna Swadisht appoints GP Sah as joint managing director Zubin Songadwala promoted to Vice President, Operations for South and East Regions of ITC Hotels Shantla Jain takes over as Director of Marketing & Communications at JW Marriott Bengaluru and Mulberry Shades Bengaluru Nandi Hills Manas Krishnamoorthy appointed as General Manager at ITC Grand Goa Resort & Spa Sarovar Hotels & Resorts welcomes Chandrayi Basuthakur as Director of National Sales Bhagwan Balani assumes General Manager role at ITC Maratha Hotel, Mumbai Pride Hotels appoints Jayesh Wadher as Corporate Human Resource Manager Ramee Group of Hotels appoints Amit Ambre as General Manager DoubleTree Hilton appoints Juhi Maheshwari as Marketing & Communications Executive New Director of Operations Vedagiri Rajaram joins JW Marriott Kolkata
INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING	read more
Volvo Cars Malaysia elevates Amit Jain as Head of Marketing Operations-APeC Atul Sinha elevated to COO of CaratLane Biocon names Nitin Tiwari as Head – Quality Bata India appoints Gerd Graehsler to its Board Honeywell Automation India re-appoints Neera Saggi to its Board Amplify Energy appoints Vidisha Prasad to its Board Vikram Solar appoints Sabyasachi Biswas as Senior Vice President-Digital Transformation Panasonic Energy India appoints Pramod Bahuguna as GM – Special Projects Registrar Corp appoints Raj Shah as CEO Lilly announces leadership transitions Hitachi Energy India appoints Neha Ahluwalia as Head of HR Honeywell Automation India re-appoints Neera Saggi to its Board Borosil appoints Sweta Kochar as CHRO Domino’s appoints Sam Jackson as Executive Vice President of Human Resources Ethos expands footprint in India, hires Vijay Ratnam as MD Raptee appoints C Suresh as Head of Operations Parag Milk Foods appoints former Amul MD Rahul Kumar Srivastava as COO Shikhir Magan joins Beam Suntory as Category Manager India- Scotch & Malts The Laughing Cow’s The Bel Group names Alamjit Singh Sekhon to lead SE Asia expansion Talod Foods appoints Samit Shah as Chief Operating Officer Kshitij Sarup joins Greenlam Industries as Head of Marketing – Plywood Business Vedanta announces resignation of CFO Sonal Shrivastava, appoints Ajay Goel IOCL, India’s leading oil company appoints new Director (Finance) Achyut Ghatak takes over as Director (Technical) of CMPDI Krishna Priya joins Branch International as head – people operations, India Vikram Bector named director & GCHRO, Welspun World Raptee appoints former Ather and Ola Electric Veteran C Suresh as Head of Operations Shalimar Paints Ltd. Takes Bold Strides in Long-Term Transformation Strategy Kamlesh Kumar Sharma joins TVS Motor as Global Head of Communications
INFRASTRUCTURE	read more
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals appoints D. Sundaram as Chairman of the Board TRX Gold appoints Shubo Rakhit as Chairman of the Board SOBHA LTD ELEVATES SUMEET CHUNKHARE TO CHIEF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER CB VELAYUTHAN APPOINTED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF BAM DIGITAL REALTY ARPIT PANT TAKES OVER AS DIRECTOR, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, ASCOTT INTERNATIONAL INDIA Alphawave Semi appoints Rahul Mathur as Chief Financial Officer ShipBob appoints Ex-Google VP, Catherine Lacavera, as Chief Legal Officer Raptee appoints C Suresh as Head of Operations Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals appoints D. Sundaram as Chairman of the Board HUDCO appoints Sanjay Kulshrestha as Chairman & MD GlobalLogic appoints Srinivas Shankar as Chief Business Officer and Head of Global Industries Former Vodafone Germany CEO Dr Hannes Ametsreiter joins Board of 1GLOBAL L&T appoints Subhashree Pradeep as Head – Talent Management & DE&I Bentley Systems appoints Kristin Fallon as Chief Marketing Officer, Colin Ellam as CEO of Cohesive Piramal Enterprises elevates Manjul Tilak to CHRO Ashok Ramachandran joins JSW Energy as chief operating officer Birlasoft appoints Selvakumaran Mannappan as chief operating officer SkyJumper onboards Ashutosh Bhatt as CEO Sterlite Power appoints Godrej’s Ruhie Pande as Chief Human Resources Officer Welspun World appoints Vikram Bector as director and Group CHRO Ashok Ramachandran steps down as CEO and president of Schindler Tata Communications’ VP-HR Ina Bajwa moves on RPG Group appoints Anant Goenka as vice chairman Hitachi Energy India names Neha Ahluwalia as Head- HR Dunzo faces leadership shift as second co-founder Mukund Jha resigns within seven days JK Fenner onboards Sakthivel M as VP-Corporate HR Air India names Capt. Klaus Goersch as new EVP and COO Sumit Neogi is appointed managing director HR-MEISA, FedEx Saumya Khati elevated to group CHRO, Shiprocket BHEL appoints Koppu Sadashiv Murthy as CMD Shri A.K. Manohar takes charge as Project Head of NTPC Kanti Ajay Kumar Sahani assumes charge as Chief Vigilance Officer at IREDA Anurag Malviya Assumes charge of Director (Personnel) of ECIL BHEL appoints Bani Verma as Director (Industrial Systems & Products) CONCOR’s new CMD Sanjay Swarup assumes charge Subhashree Pradeep joins L&T as Head – Talent Management & DE&I
LEGAL_LAW	read more
S&R Partner Rachita R Bhat joins Trilegal Vatsal Kishore joins Cleantech Industry Resources as President & Chief Legal Officer Anirudh Mukherjee joins Kochhar & Co as Partner in Employment and Corporate practice Divya Krishnan joins Singularity Legal Luthra and Luthra reorganises its governance model; announces new Management Committee Manish Gupta, Pratyush Khurana, and Ashish Ahluwalia leave IndusLaw to join Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas as Partners Trilega Counsel Shivani Khandekar joins Singhania & Co as Partner in Dispute Resolution practice Gyanendra Mishra joins Dentons Link Legal as a Partner in Employment Law and White-Collar Crime practices Madhavan Srivatsan joins Emerald Law Offices as Senior Partner in Corporate and M&A practice Gameskraft promotes Aditi Kapoor to Director-Legal LKS Joint Partner Ankit Parhar joins Poovayya & Co as a Partner NLSIU Grad Indraneel Basu Majumdar joins KPMG as Director of Financial Services team AZB Partner Ramya Suresh joins Saraf and Partners Prasad Subramanyan joins Matrix Partners India as General Counsel Khaitan Partner Suhana Islam Murshedd joins AQUILAW as Equity Partner Saga Legal appoints Sanika Mehra as Co-Managing Partner SPN Legal Promotes Laksh Kundlas to Partnership DSK Legal elevates Chirag Jain and Shruti Dogra to Associate Partners Khushboo Butail Karol joins ANM Global as Partner in New Ventures & Strategic Growth Amazon elevates Prithwish Bhattacharya to Director & Associate General Counsel Arindam Sarkar joins Fox & Mandal as Partner in Corporate practice Three Crowns barrister Maanas Jain joins Paul Hastings Amit Ganatra joins Khaitan & Co as Executive Director in Direct Tax practice Malini Raju rejoins AZB & Partners as Partner in Real Estate practice in Bengaluru Trilegal makes 7 Partners, taking the total tally to 112 Kirkland & Ellis elevates NLS grad Mallika Abidi to Partnerships Susanah Naushad joins Khaitan & Co as Counsel in Disputes practice in Singapore Vishnu Shankar joins Morgan Lewis as Partner in Privacy and Cybersecurity practice Bobby Chandhoke and Sudhir Sharma set up C&S Partners Yashvardhan Rana sets up boutique law firm YVR Law Offices Ashish Pyasi launches dispute resolution firm, Aendri Legal
MEDIA	read more
Vigyeta Agrawal moves on from Jio Cinema Alex Lubar elevated to Global CEO of DDB Worldwide Janhavi Vyas named Head-Marketing, South Asia, Warner Bros. Discovery Ashish Pandey moves on from Disney Star after 15 years Madison Media appoints global digital expert Rob Norman as Advisor Pranshu Mishra appointed Resident Editor, HT, Lucknow Pranshu Mishra appointed Resident Editor, HT, Lucknow Nina Elavia Jaipuria quits Viacom18 after 17 years Disney Star’s Ashish Pandey to lead programming at Cineline India’s Movie Max ABP Group appoints Yash Mehta as CEO of Ananda Publishers’ education arm Bharat Media & Entertainment Group appoints Aatif Ali as Business Lead – East Nikunj Garg moves on from Times Group Pocket FM appoints Vivek Bhutyani as VP of Content Marketing Ogury names Samir Chabab as VP of Marketing Sreenivasan Jain joins News24 as Consulting Editor Prerna Jha joins Jio Studios as General Manager, Marketing Hindustan Times’s OTTplay ropes in Tariq Malik as Business Head Mitali Srivastava Hough is Head of Strategic Planning Mumbai at McCann Worldgroup Dentsu veteran Fumio Oshima named Group Chairman of Rediffusion
TECHNOLOGY	read more
Sreenivasa Reddy quits Microsoft, joins Google as Head of India Public Policy Wavemaker India appoints Sairam Ranganathan as Chief Digital Officer Manu Kumar Jain joins G42 as CEO Neena Dasgupta exits AIDEM Ventures Cisco appoints Dan Schulman to Board of Directors RateGain appoints Jay Wardle as President and General Manager at Adara UnitedAg appoints Satish Kurian as Chief Digital and Technology Officer Bentley Systems appoints Kristin Fallon as Chief Marketing Officer, Colin Ellam as CEO of Cohesive Ogury names Samir Chabab as VP of Marketing byteXL’s appoints senior education experts to its leadership team Nexdigm appoints Bimal Tanna as Senior Global Business Advisor Yves Bernaert appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Atos DSP International UK appoints Vaishak Swamy as business director, Europe and America Betterhalf announces new appointments to its leadership team Appian appoints Randy Guard as Chief Marketing Officer Syngene announces resignation of Joydeep Kant as SVP – Development Services Saviynt expands leadership in Marketing, Cloud Platform Innovation and Security GoTo promotes Damon Covey to Chief Product Officer and appoints Ruth Frank as Head of User Experience AXISCADES appoints Abidali Neemuchwala as Chairman of the Board Commvault appoints Richard Gadd as Senior Vice President of EMEA and India JK Fenner onboards Sakthivel M as VP-Corporate HR Kofluence names Sreeram Reddy Vanga as the new CEO Tata Communications’ VP-HR Ina Bajwa moves on Impact Communications names Mohan Kumar as Bu Head-Retail Bobble AI names Ravi Shharma as Chief Business Officer Krish Kidao named VP of Global Business at Mobavenue Shashwat Sharma elevated to COO of Bharti Airtel Veena Khandke appointed as Managing Director of Ensono India Former Vodafone Germany CEO Dr Hannes Ametsreiter joins Board of 1GLOBAL GlobalLogic appoints Srinivas Shankar as Chief Business Officer and Head of Global Industries SymphonyAI appoints Daniela Rus to its Board Mphasis appoints Ayaskant Sarangi as CHRO SymphonyAI appoints Daniela Rus to its Board Veena Khandke appointed as Managing Director of Ensono India SES appoints Adel Al-Saleh as CEO KFin Technologies appoints Radha Rajappa as Additional Director UnitedAg appoints Satish Kurian as Chief Digital and Technology Officer Bobble AI names Ravi Shharma as Chief Business Officer Krish Kidao named VP of Global Business at Mobavenue Shashwat Sharma elevated to COO of Bharti Airtel DDB’s Aditya Kanthy named CEO of newly formed Omnicom Advertising Services Vidyadhar Kale joins Wavemaker as Executive Director, Client Leadership Laurent Simon steps down as Chief Creative Officer at VMLY&R HP appoints Ipsita Dasgupta as SVP & Managing Director, India Market NxtDigital appoints Sooraj Keswani as its Chief Customer Experience Officer Veena Khandke elevated to the post of Ensono India’s managing director
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