August 2020

	August 2020

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BFSI	read more
Sashidhar Jagdishan appointed as the next CEO of HDFC Bank PNB Housing Finance appoints Hardayal Prasad as MD & CEO Ashwani Bhatia appointed as Managing Director of SBI SN Rajeswari appointed as Oriental Insurance CMD Paytm appoints Bhavesh Gupta as the CEO for its lending business Motilal Oswal AMC appoints Navin Agarwal as new MD & CEO SBI MF appoints Vinay Tonse as MD & CEO DBS Bank India appoints Prashant Joshi as Managing Director and Head of National Distribution Banks Board recommends Dinesh Kumar Khara as next SBI Chairman Cover Genius appoints Arijit Chakraborty as the companys chief for India and SEA Nirav Sheth named CEO of Emkay Institutional Equities IEX board accepts resignation of MD & CEO Rajiv Srivastava Karnataka Bank appoints former HC judge Justice AV Chandrashekar, ex-SBI MD Pradeep Kumar Panja as its additional directors Indiabulls Housing Finance appoints former RBI Deputy Governor SS Mundra as non executive chairman Nippon Life India AMC appoints Parekh Ashvin as Independent Director Sudhesh Chandrasekar appointed Slice first-ever CFO Sebi appoints G P Garg as Executive Director GIC Re appoints BoI’s MD & CEO Atanu Das as director on the board Action Financial Services (India) CFO Bakul Parek Resigns CSB Bank Gets Cenbank Nod to appoint Madhavan Aravamuthan as Part Time Chairman Dhanvarsha Finvest Appoints Sanjay Kukreja as CFO Dynamic Portfolio Management & Services approves appointment of Aamir Khan as CFO Goyal Associates approves Resignation Of Vinay Agrawal From Position of MD Mudra Financial Services appoints Vishal Surve as CFO Oswal Leasing CFO Surbhi Arora Resigns TCI Finance CFO Ramesh Sivaraman Resigns TCI Finance appoints Amit Kumar Ray as CFO Yes Bank appoints Sumit Gupta as Chief Risk Officer for Three Years SAIF Partners India Promotes Mayank Khanduja Sequoia Capital India announces Star India’s Gayatri Vasudev, GoJek’s Ajey Gore and Salesforce’s Shweta Rajpal as its newest Senior Executives Pine Labs appoints Gayatri Rath as Chief Marketing & Communications Officer Central Bank of India has appointed Mr. Ashwini Kumar Shukla as Chief Risk Officer BharatPe appoints Suhail Sameer as Group President HSBC appoints Nidhi Arora as SVP-HR Mirae Asset Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Directors Aye Finance appoints erstwhile Hero Fincorp Chief Business Officer as Deputy CEO Yes Bank appoints V. S. Radhakrishnan on board, nominated by SBI Capital India Finance Limited appoints Dr Harsh Kumar Bhanwala as Executive Chairman BharatPe appoints Jasneet Kaur as Chief Human Resource Officer BR Shetty resigns as co-chairman of Finablr Gaurav Khanna appointed CFO of IndInfravit Trust Roopank Chaudhary rejoins as partner at Aon India and South Asia Sequoia Capital strengthens Indian leadership team Waterfield appoints Nimish Shah as Chief Investment Officer-Listed Investments Alice Vaidyan appointed to the Board of Geojit Sameer Gehlaut steps down as Indiabulls Housing chairman After founding Junglee, Helion, veteran investor Ashish Gupta now joins Prime Venture Partners
Consumer	read more
GoAir appoints Kaushik Khona as CEO Roca gets new MD for Asia-Pacific, re-appoints MD for India Silver Oak (India) Ltd Says Appoints Vivek Chibba As CEO Ruchi Soyas Managing Director Shri Acharya Balkrishna Steps Down, Baba Ramdevs Brother Ram Bharat Takes Over as MD GoAir loses yet another CEO; Vinay Dube quits Bikram Basu quits Allied Blenders & Distillers as COO Airasia Says CIK Noor Neelofa Binti Mohd Noor Resigns As Independent And Non Executive Director Dilip Seth has tendered his resignation from the post of Whole Time Director (Finance) and Chief Financial Officer(CFO) Elegant Marbles And Grani Industries has approved reappointment of Rajesh Agrawal as MD Gillette India Says Chairman Bansidhar S.Mehta To Retire From Board Super House Appoints Krishan Dutt Misra CFO Umang Dairies CEO Manish Bandlish Resigns Umang Dairies Names Sandeep Bhalla As Manager Kimberly-Clark hands APAC marketing lead Nitish Gupta MD role for Malaysia Puma appoints Shreya Sachdev as Head of Marketing & Strategic Initiatives Madan Mohan Mohapatra quits Future Group after a 13-year-long stint Gillette India appoints independent director Jayesh Gadodia joins Faber-Castell India as CFO PepsiCo announces senior leadership appointments
Industrial	read more
Deepak Shetty appointed as Deputy CEO and MD of JCB India Mark Bush appointed as CEO of JSW Steel USA Vedanta elevates Hindustan Zinc’s former CEO Sunil Duggal as company’s CEO Solara Active Pharma Sciences appoints Bharath R Sesha as MD and CEO BCL Industries approves appointment of Kushal Mittal as Joint MD Waters Corp names Dr Udit Batra as President & CEO IEL Ltd names Ronit Shah as MD Nagesh Basavanhalli Resigns as MD, CEO of Greaves Cotton Bhikam Chand Mishra Resigns as CEO of Hindustan Motors Rajiv Srivastava Tenders Resignation as CEO of Indian Energy Exchange Sudeep Narayan, Director Volvo Auto India quits JSW Energy CFO Jyoti Kumar Agarwal to move out in September General Motors Dhivya Suryadevara joins Stripe as CFO ACC Ltd appoints Yatin Malhotra s CFO Adhunik Metaliks approves appointment of Raghunath Panda as CFO Asian Oilfield Services appoints Nirav Talati as CFO B K Bansal has resigned as CFO of Balkrishna Industries Ltd Caprolactam Chemicals Reappoints Zaver Shankarlal Bhanushali as MD GI Engineering Solutions CFO Ravi TR Resigns Siddharth Jain appointed CFO of Hilton Metal Forging Impex Ferro Tech CFO Sanjeet Kumar Gupta resigns IMP Powers Ltd approves resignation of Bakul Desai as CFO Ind Renewable Energy CFO Kalpesh Sanghavi Tenders Resignation Ind Renewable Energy appoints Nirmal Shah as CFO Vanamali Polavaram Resigns as Chairman of JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Maximus International appoints Paresh Thakkar as CFO Sagar Cements appoints Kolappa Thanu Pillai as Chairman Simplex Castings CFO J Suryam resigns Simplex Castings Names Deb Mukherjee as CFO Dipankar Bhattacharjee appointed as new Independent Non-Executive Director of Glenmark Ola Electric loses another co-founder as Ankit Jain quits Harley-Davidson appoints Jagdish Krishnan as chief digital officer Dr Seshu Bhagavathula joins all-electric Volta Trucks K.B.S. Anand & Dr Punita Kumar-Sinha join Lupins Board as independent directors INEOS Styrolution India announces change in Chairman Rajesh Kumar Rai joins MRL Tyres as VP-HR Board of Sterling & Wilson Solar appoints COO Solar International Projects Hindustan Copper announces appointment of Govt nominee director Nikesh Mehta appointed as Macpower CNC Machines Chief Executive Officer Honda India Power appoints Masaaki Morita as Additional Director SE Power jumps ~5% after appointment of Vaibhav Gupta as new Director Dr. Reddys Laboratories Ltd has appointed Reethika Nair as head of digital marketing and e-commerce RIL appoints former IOC Chairman Sanjiv Singh as group president Midas Safetys Group appoints Shirendra Lawrenceto Director on Board Luminous Power Technologies appoints Sr VP for R&D Appointment of Ms. Supriya Prakash Sen as a Director on the Board of Azure Power Global Limited Former DIPP Secretary Ramesh Abhishek named to Cyients Board
Legal	read more
Indus Mumbai poaches two partners from Algo: star duo Siddharth Manchanda, Minhaz Lokhandwala HSA Cal partner, Argus co-founder Ramya Hariharan reboots Citadel Law in City of Joy LKS boosts corporate with ex-Themis partner Amritha Salian, Oyo A-GC Gaurav Dayal Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan hires two partners from Shardul Amarchand, Themis Algo promotes Neha Madan to associate partner + 8 associates Ashok Dhingra A’s co-founder Smita Singh joins Singh & A’s post ADA management change of guard Breakaway Anoma now 13 after adding K Law partner Vishal Bhat for South India property + debt push ELP equity Darshan Upadhyay + 3 corp partners Gada, Manubarwala, Pandya start up Stratage Ex-chambers AKS grows to 5 partners, starts corp practice with ex-SAM SA Anish Jaipuriar Indus opens equity beyond founders, promotes 8 into a new modified lockstep Samvad promotes 2 in Bangalore, grows to 16 partners
Media & Entertainment	read more
DY Works appoints Tresa Paul as CEO and MD as Alpana Parida moves on Bruce Clay appoints Ajay Chhabra as Country Head Srikanth Swaminathan Joins Investis Digital as Managing Director of its Baroda India Office Subhash Chandra to take role of chairman emeritus at Zee Entertainment; R Gopalan appointed new chairman Suresh Kumar is new CEO of TTD’s SVBC Ajit Varghese exits WPP as Global President of Wavemaker Chimp&z Inc appoints Manan Shah as Head of Client Services, West and North India Sony Music appoints Mairu Gupta as Director, Digital Business Ken42 appoints Itisha Peerbhoy as marketing head The Marcom Avenue appoints Nitesh Agarwal as associate director- digital operations, India Update Geotarget elevates Prabeer Patankar as Head of National Sales Cheil India appoints Sourav Ray as Chief Strategy Officer In an internal move, Ratika Mehra to now spearhead brand Dettol at RB Tilt Brand Solutions ropes in Paul Dueman as its new Chief Strategy Officer Publicis Media appoints Mimi Deb to lead GSK unit A+E Networks\|TV18 appoints Karishma Dhawan as Revenue Head Ajay Azad quits as India News Output Head Akash Banerji quits Voot BuzzOne Influencer Marketing appoints Kaizad Patel as Business Head for west India Cheil India COO Atika Malik steps down Chimp&z Inc elevates Sean Pereira and Aarti Maghnani Dwaipayan Bose appointed Editor of Indiatoday.in Ethinos announces key appointments to leadership team FoxyMoron promotes Prachi Bali as National Head, Client Partnerships Gozoop elevates Amyn Ghadiali as Vice President – Business & Strategy Gozoop promotes Premkumar Iyer as VP, National Operations Havas Media Group names Sanchita Roy as Head of West India India Today Group appoints Darpan Singh as Executive Editor India Today Group’s Kamlesh Singh gets additional responsibility Mathew C joins marunadanmalayali.com as Business Head Moving Walls appoints D Sriram to advisory board Pradeep Dwivedi named IAA VP & Area Director, APAC Rajnish Ahuja of ABP News gets new responsibility as Head of Corporate Communications ReDefine appoints PC Vikram to head newly launched pre-production services Romil Ramgarhia steps down as BARC India COO Sakshi Joshi bids adieu to News24 Scarecrow M&C Saatchi appoints Vijay Assudani as Creative Director Senior journalist Jayanta Ghoshal bids adieu to India TV Times Internet adds Durga Raghunath and Rohit Saran to leadership team TVF sees core members calling it quits Vivek Srivastava takes on additional charge of Times Network’s News Business portfolio Hersh Bhandari & Priya Mukherjee appointed new COOs at Republic Media Network Leo Burnett India appoints Sujay Rachh as executive director SugarBox strengthens leadership team with five new appointments Ex OYO digital transformation lead, Atma Godara joins Netflix MediaMonks India appoints Karan Amin as Creative Lead Sochcast ropes in first employee Akanksha Thapliyal as Head, Originals
TECH & TELECOM	read more
HP appoints Ketan Patel as India MD, Vinay Awasthi moves to a new role within a year Anil Kumar Jain appointed as the new CEO of NIXI Udemy for Business appoints Vinay Pradhan as new Country Head for India and South Asia Krishnan Seshadri appointed CEO of Onmobile Global Adobe APAC MD Ben Goodman joins tech firm New Relic to run India biz Airtel Lanka appoints Ashish Chandra as new CEO & MD HMD Global appoints Alain Lejeune in Global Operations Leadership Role MPL appoints Himanshu Raj to Head Brand Communications Air Marshal (Retd) Bhushan Nilkanth Gokhale Joins Quick Heal Technologies as an Independent Director Sunil Mahale Joins Commvault as VP, Sales Engineering and Emerging Technology, APJ GoMechanic appoints Rakesh Sidana as Assistant Vice President Realme elevates Madhav Sheth, to also lead Europe operations Birlasoft names Chandrasekar Thyagarajan its new CFO Hike appoints Suvesh Malhotra as new VP & Head of Engineering Mindtree Appoints Venu Lambu as President of Global Markets RMSI Appoints Venu Nair as Chief Operating Officer One Global Service Provider MD Kamalkumar Rajendra Aggarwal Resigns Persistent Systems CEO Chris O’Connor resigns Nokia veteran CB Velayuthan joins Equinix as Global Managing Director Kedar Teny joins Avataar.me, an AI company as SVP, Country Head Micromax ropes in Rachna Lather as Marketing Head Practo ropes in Subhanka Roy Choudhury as Head of Digital CleverTap Names Abhishek Gupta as Chief Customer Officer Triller India appoints TikTok’s Raj Mishra as head of operations Nutanix Partners in Shock After Dheeraj Pandeys Sudden Exit Accolite appoints Arjun Malhotra as chairman of companys advisory board SeQuent inducts of Dr. Kamal K Sharma and Mr. Milind Sarwate as Independent Directors, Dr. Kamal K Sharma also appointed as the Chairman of the Board Amazon ropes in Akash Banerji as Head of Marketing for mobile business development unit Pomelo Digital appoints Sanjay Trehan as Digital Advisor CentriLogic expands leadership team; Shalini Duggal to take the helm as CPO LogiNext appoints Neetha Thomas as Head HR Bharti Infratel reappoints D S Rawat as MD & CEO; Rajinder Pal Singh reappointed as Independent Director Dell Technologies Names Rola Dagher Global Channel Chief Cyble appoints Mandar Patil to scale international business and customer success Ex VP, HR of Unilever Harsha Jalihal joins MongoDB as Chief People Officer Sarah Shin joins Cloudera as the Chief Diversity Officer 8K Miles Software Services re-designate Suresh Venkatachari as CEO Aaron Au joins Gloat as Chief Strategy Officer Sasken appoints Edwin Moses as President and COO Indian Investor & Entrepreneur Mahin BS Is Chairman of Board of Directors of Boostmysites.com TEMA appoints BK Syngal as Chairman of TEMA 6G Council Flipkarts Anil Goteti resigns to pursue entrepreneurial ambitions
Others	read more
Anand K appointed as new CEO of SRL Limited BowerGroupAsia Welcomes Ratan Shrivastava as new Managing Director for India Atit Mahajan is MD, CMA CGM India Colliers International Appoints Subhankar Mitra as Managing Director, Advisory Services (India) Global Infraearth names Umesh Jhawar as Chief Executive Officer Dinesh Chauhan steps up as new CEO of CORE diagnostics Swasth announces Dr. Ajay Nair as the Chief Executive Officer Alumnus Mr. Vinay Piparsania appointed as first CEO of IIT Delhi Endowment Management Foundation Ankita Kar appointed MD J&K Trade Promotion Organization Benares Hotels Says Vijay Partap Shrikent Resigns as CEO Bentley Commercial Enterprises appointsf Kavya Gawde as CEO Esperer Onco appoints Dr Vivek Srivastav as VP-R&D operations and Dr Anubhab Mukherjee as principal scientist, R&D division Jaypee Infratech CFO Pramod Kumar Aggarwal resigns Beekay Niryat CFO Nipurn Dosi Resigns Deccan Health Care Says U. K. Singh Resigns As CFO Gaurav Mercantiles appoints Vivek Agarwal as CFO Dhara Shah resigns as CFO of Greycells Education Ltd Dinesh Gautama Resigns as CEO of Navkar Corporation DoubleTree by Hilton Gurgaon appoints Rajat Tuli as new GM Neha Chhabra joins Courtyard by Marriott Bengaluru Hebbal as General Manager CFO Vikash Sharma has resigned from SRS Ltd Colliers International appoints Bhupindra Singh in a strategic role in North India Ashoka University appoints Dr. Shahid Jameel as the Director of Trivedi School of Biosciences Dr. H.K. Chaudhary appointed new VC of CSKHPKV Palampur HSNC University appoints Dr. Akhil Shahani as a Governing Board Member Ajey Kumar steps down as MD of Zee Learn; Vikash Kumar Kar appointed as additional director Abdul Shayek is announced as the new artistic director of Tara Arts Ipsos India appoints Raja Bunet, Chief Operations Officer to lead Contactless Data Collection Operations Expleo Solutions Ltd appoints Mr. Rajesh Krishnamurthy as additional director Sai Shankar joins The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts as Vice President Procurement Sameer Malik joins Sarovar Hotels as their new Regional Sales Manager for West Aarya Lords Club and Resorts appoints Anil Chavan as General Manager Westin Goa appoints Tanveer Kwatra as their General Manager Eastin Easy Vita appoints Arun Sharma as their F&B Manager Sunil Jain takes over as CFO of MT Educare EY India Chairman & CEO joins joins Krea University Governing Council Praxis appoints former Axis Securities MD as Practice Leader for Financial Services Practice Bhuvana S. joins Randstad India as Sr VP Marketing & CMO Indian School Finance hires Sandeep Wirkhare as CEO in turnaround effort
Government	read more
PESB picks Soma Mondal as the next chairman of Steel Authority of India Shri Sanjeev Kumar Selected As CMD TCIL Dr Joshi appointed as UPSC Chairman CMDE Shri Saurav Deb selected for CMD NEPA limited Shri Tadi Lakshmi Narayan Reddy selected as MD Hindustan Steelworks Const Ltd Power Grid Corporation Of India Ltd approves appointment M. Taj Mukarrum as CFO Dr Sanjay Mukherjee becomes new Vice-Chairman Managing Director of CIDCO Chandan Kumar Mondol takes charge as Director (Commercial) at NTPC Coal India announces appointment of Govt. nominee director PTC India announces appointment of nominee director Ujjwal Kanti Bhattacharya takes over as NTPC Director Ms Vartika Shukla Takes Over As Director Technical EIL Shri A S Kesavan Nampoori Selected For Director Technical FACT Shri Dinesh Kumar Batra takes charge as Director Finance BEL Shri M V IYER Selected For Director Business Development GAIL Shri Pradosh Kumar Basu selected as Director Finance NALCO Shri Rajendra Prasad Shukia Appointed Director Finance WCL Shri Raman R took charge as General Manager Shri S. S. Sinha Director Technical Of NCL Shri Shyam Awasthi selected for Director Finance HSCL Shri Somnath Nandi Selected As Director Tech NMDC Ltd Shri Sushil Kumar Sharma Director Electrical SJVN
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