January 2023

	January 2023

BFSI Consumer_eComerce Government Healthcare Hospitality Industrial_Manufacturing Infrastructure Media Technology Others
BFSI	read more
Standard Chartered appoints new HR head and CTO for South Asia and India Quotient Ventures hires T. Gangadhar as group CEO Reliance Nippon Life Insurance appoints new Head of Performance and Rewards Sumitha Nandan appointed Manappuram Finance Executive Director Paytm Payments Bank appoints Surinder Chawla as MD and CEO after RBI approval Mastercard appoints new South Asia Leader Muthoot Homefin appoints Alok Aggarwal as CEO BSE Ltd appoints Sundararaman Ramamurthy as MD YES Bank names Winay Bari as VP – Digital Marketing Future Generali India gets Reena Tyagi as CHRO Geetika Mehta is Ananta Capital’s new group CHRO Jindal Stainless commits to Net Zero with appointment of its first Chief Sustainability Officer Morgan Stanley appoints new India country head Danish insurer Tryg appoints Johan Kirstein Brammer as CEO Lakshmi Ganesh joins Auxilo Finserv as Head – HR & Administration JPMorgan names Anu Aiyengar sole head of global M&A Shalini Singh joins NAB Innovation Centre India as Senior Vice President ZEE5’s Mansi Prasad joins the fintech company Progcap Mastercard appoints Gautam Agarwal as Division President, South Asia & Country Corporate Officer, India Progcap appoints CXOs for BFSI vertical Shri Ajay kumar Srivasatava elevated as MD & CEO of Indian Overseas Bank Anurag Gupta appointed as VP at American Express Banking Corp., India Citi appoints Aditya Bagree as head of markets for India and South Asia RBI approves appointment of Prabdev Singh as India head of JP Morgan Chase Govt extends tenure of Bank of Baroda MD and CEO Sanjiv Chadha by 5 months PFS shareholders approve appointment of new independent directors NJ Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Key Personnel IDFC Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Fund Manager and Key Personnel Shriram Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Directors Invesco Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Key Personnels LIC Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Key Personnel IDBI Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Key Personnel SBI MF Announces Appointment of Independent Director WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Key Personnel-Assistant Fund Manager Edelweiss Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Independent Director Board of Axis Bank appoints director PTC India Financial hits the roof as board appoints S Gopal as CFO L&T Finance Holdings appoints Chief Risk Officer Karnataka Bank appoints Executive Director
Consumer_eComerce	read more
TBZ – The Original appoints Subhashis Sinha as CHRO Tata Consumer Products hires Tarun N P Varma as Global CHRO Shamalbhai B Patel re-elected as chairman of Amul Nykaa appoints P Ganesh as Chief Financial Officer IIMA appoints Bharat Bhasker as new Director Dalmia Biz hires Nitin Khindria as CHRO Equiniti India appoints Vijayaraj Palaniraj as Talent Acquisition Head Ferns N Petals appoints Shashwat Goswami as chief marketing officer Noise ropes in Rahul Bhojraj as Head of Creative Content Duroflex appoints Rajat Rastogi as new CFO Welspun Corp appoints Kumar Priyaranjan as CHRO com onboards Sanjay Kumar as chief people officer Colgate-Palmolive appoints Lorrie Norrington as lead independent director of the board SUGAR Cosmetics appoints former Nykaa CHRO Nirav Jagad as chief people officer Ajay Simha quits as Nivea’s marketing director Zomato co-founder Gunjan Patidar resigns BharatPe CEO Suhail Sameer steps down, Nalin Negi to be interim CEO Neha Sharma Katyal joins Spotify as Director of Sales Prashant Deshpande elevated as Chief Brand Officer, Kurlon Amul MD RS Sodhi resigns; Jayen Mehta takes interim charge Garima Garg joins The Label Life as CEO upGrad CEO Arjun Mohan resigns The Hershey Company appoints Herjit Bhalla as Canada VP Joyee Biswas to head sports and media partnerships at Virtualness Pilgrim onboards Konark Gaur as Chief Marketing Officer Clovia names Nikhil Gulati as Head of Brand Marketing Dabur International CEO Krishan Kumar Chutani quits, Raghav Agarwal to now take charge KnowledgeHut upGrad elevates Rajesh Durai to Vice President – Growth & Strategy CollegeDekho appoints Abhinav Upadhyay as Chief Marketing Officer Simpl ropes in Ashwini Ravindranath as VP of Partner Success team Haldiram’s appoints Harshit Gupta as Deputy Manager – Digital Marketing Legends League Cricket appoints Aditi Kaushik as Director Marketing Hein Schumacher named new Unilever CEO Manu Kumar Jain moves on from Xiaomi Zepto appoints Shreyansh Modi as Head of Growth & Monetization mCaffeine ropes in Neetha Thomas as head – people function Anushree Singh returns to Avery Dennison as HR Director-EMEA, apparel solutions Sabato De Sarno is the new creative director of Gucci Capri names insider Cedric Wilmotte as CEO of Michael Kors Anoo Bhuyan becomes head of media labs at The Whole Truth Foods Spencer’s Retail MD Devndra Chawla steps down; to join GreenCell Mobility as CEO Resha Jain moves on from SUGAR Cosmetics, joins Giva as Chief Brand Officer Sharechat’s group head of marketing Kishore Acharya moves on Nishant Kumar joins Earthy Tweens as Co-Founder & CEO BharatPe appoints Ambuj Bhalla as CISO Swati Agrawal appointed Chief Executive Officer of CART Scaler appoints Manish Pansari as senior VP to strengthen data science, machine learning verticals Nona Lifestyle appoints Shivang Agrawal as Tech Lead Cuemath announces key appointments to leadership team Zoomcar appoints Ashu Singhal as Chief Technology & Product Officer mCaffeine onboards Suman Kumar as National Retail Head Tata ClassEdge appoints Anish Raghunandan as CEO Reliance Brands ropes in Dean Gomes as Marketing Head for Superdry ShareChat’s co-founders Farid Ahsan and Bhanu Pratap Singh step down from their executive positions Utkarsh Classes hires former WhiteHat Jr Ankur Nyati as COO Nothing elevates Megha Vishwanath to global product marketing manager Uber ropes in Aditi Awasthi as corporate communications lead Raymond’s Shawn Chandy joins Paragon Footwear as CMO Reliance Retail appoints Prajakta Rathe as Deputy General Manager for beauty vertical Abhishek Shahabadi moves on from Diageo India Soumen Samanta joins BlissClub as Chief Revenue Officer Celio India appoints Stanton Ambrose as new Head of Marketing & PR Adda247 appoints Chandan Singh as the new Co-Founder D2C brand Spice Story elevates Vibhor Rastogi as Co-Founder toothsi (now makeO) appoints Ex-Rupeek techie as CPTO KnowledgeHut upGrad Appoints Rajesh Durai as VP – Growth & Strategy Cuemath appoints Lipika Kapil Brown Living appoints Dr. Kapil Narula to their Advisory Board Vahak, announces appointment of five senior leaders to its management team Bharti Airtel appoints Naval Seth as Head of Investor Relations Vodafone Idea ropes in Sujeet Sharma as VP-active network and commercial Indus Towers appoints Ramesh Abhishek as Independent Director Ironhill India onboards Vejay Anand as CEO Board of Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail appoints directors Shoppers Stop appoints director Bata India appoints Anil Somani as CFO Board of Berger Paints India appoints VP & CEO
Government	read more
Shashi Sinha’s tenure as ASCI board member comes to an end Ajit Kumar Saxena takes charge as MOIL CMD Shri Anil Kumar Lahoti takes over the charge of new Chairman & CEO of Railway Board Commodore A Madhavarao is new Director (Technical), BDL Shri K Mohan Reddy takes additional CMD charge of NLC India Limited Shri Santosh Kumar Yadav, IAS joins as NHAI Chairman Vinay Prakash Singh takes over the office of General Secretary of Asian Pacific Postal Union Shri Rajeev Gupta assumes charge as Director (Projects) of EIL Mr Damodar Bhattad takes charge as Director (Finance) of BEL Prasanna Kumar Mottupalli Assumes Office as CMD of NLC India Ltd Shri Anurag Kumar assumed the charge of CMD ECIL Shri Debasis Acharyya takes over as Director (Personnel) of SECL G. Jawahar joins BEML Ltd. as Director (HR) Shri K.P.M Swamy takes over as Director (Commercial) of NBCC IAS officer Vikram Dev Dutt appointed as the new DGCA chief Hindustan Zinc chairperson Kiran Agarwal steps down, Priya Agarwal to take over Bharat Electronics appoints Damodar S Bhattad as Chief Financial Officer ONGC appoints Arun Kumar Singh as CEO Mahanagar Telephone Nigam announces appointment of Govt. Nominee Director Indian Oil Corporation announces appointment of Government Nominee Director Hindustan Petroleum Corporation announces appointment of Director (Marketing) SEPC appoints director New Delhi Television appoints director PDS appoints Rahul Ahuja as Group CFO Board of SEPC appoints director IGL appoints Rakesh Kumar Jain as chairman
Healthcare	read more
Wipro GE HealthCare names Chaitanya Sarawate as MD of South Asia Akums Drugs & Pharmaceuticals hires Arvind Srivastava as HR President Tarun NP Varma moves from Shell to TCP, as global CHRO Akums Drugs & Pharmaceuticals ropes in Arvind Srivastava as president-HR Neelesh Marik joins iThrive Board of Directors Solara Active Pharma Sciences appoints CEO
Hospitality	read more
Mayur Hola joins Culinary Brands as CMO Novotel names Amartya Chakraborty as Director of Sales and Marketing Le Meridien Nagpur appoints Amit Chakraborti as Executive Chef Holiday Inn Mumbai International Airport appoints HA Anoop as Director of Human Resource. Garima Singh joins as Director of Sales and Marketing at Grand Mercure Bengaluru at Gopalan Mall Manish Dayya takes over as General Manager at Sofitel Mumbai BKC Crowne Plaza Greater Noida appoints Kkeyur Sangani as new Crowne Meeting Director Novotel Visakhapatnam Varun Beach appoints Pempo Lepcha as new Recreational Manager Prashant Sonawane takes over as General Manager at 7 Apple Hotel, Nashik Clarks Safari Jawai appoints Rajkumar Singh Kumpawat as Operations Manager Novotel Kolkata Hotel and Residences announces senior leadership appointments Hilton Garden Inn New Delhi/ Saket appoints Vibhor Uniyal as new Director of Sales Courtyard by Marriott Mahabaleshwar welcomes Aalok Jaiswal as new Associate Director of Sales Accor appoints Omer Acar as CEO of Raffles & Orient Express Holiday Inn Bengaluru Racecourse appoints Ajit Tiwari as Executive Chef Devendra Kumar appointed HR Manager at Crowne Plaza New Delhi Okhla Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor appoints Joseph Colina as new General Manager Akshay Varma appointed Director of Sales at Courtyard by Marriot Bengaluru Hebbal Chef Cong Yong Li appointed Chef de Cuisine at Hyatt Regency, Trivandrum Conrad Pune appoints Chef Taj Qureshi as new Sous Chef at Zeera Hilton Garden Inn Pune Hinjewadi appoints Anuj Majumdar as AGM Savio Fernandes appointed Director of F&B at Four Seasons Hotel Bengaluru Minor Hotels appoints Martin Zarybnicky as GM of Anantara Bangkok Siam Hotel Rishabh Tandon Joins SAMHI Hotels as Cluster Director of Human Resources Hilton Garden Inn New Delhi Saket appoints Shrutika Puri as new HR Manager Sheraton Grand Chennai Resort & Spa elevates Akash Kushwaha and Manish Tiwari Jenvie Peter’s joins Holiday Inn Mumbai International Airport as Operations Manager Crowne Plaza Kochi appoints John Mathulla as Director of Operations Subhajit Sadhukhan appointed Executive Chef for Crowne Plaza Pune City Centre Vishal Sharma joins Crowne Plaza New Delhi Rohini as Director of Sales and Marketing Daikin India Chairman & MD KJ Jawa appointed as President of RAMA Fairmont Jaipur appoints Gaurav Shrivastava as Director of Revenue NHCC and HICC appoints Rubin Cherian as General Manager Anjali Yadav appointed Assistant Manager Marketing & Communication at The Westin Kolkata Rajarhat Shri Raj Goswami elevated to Director of Restaurants & Bar at The Ritz-Carlton Pune W Goa appoints Sunil Dutt as new Culinary Director JW Marriott Pune appoints Davesh Rawal as Director of Sales Westlife Foodworld appoints Saurabh Bhudolia as CFO Sanjiv Kapoor to remain CEO-designate of Jet Airways Novotel Pune appoints Abhijeet Gadgil as the Director of Sales and Marketing Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa, Nashik appoints Jatish Ghai as the new general manager Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Center appoints Sanjay Gupta as General Manager Aartee Thadani has joined The Westin Goa as their Marketing & Communications Manager Board of Oriental Hotels appoints CFO
Industrial_Manufacturing	read more
BMW promotes Aparna Dhingra to a global role HIL appoints Akshat Seth as MD and CEO Manasi Tata named Toyota Kirloskar Motor Vice Chairperson Schneider Electric appoints Manish Pant as executive VP for international operations LG Electronics India appoints Hong Ju Jeon as managing director Jindal Stainless appoints Sushil Baveja as CHRO Schneider Electric appoints Binu Philip as zone India CHRO Hyundai Motor India elevates Tarun Garg to COO Shubhabrata Saha appointed MD & CEO of Ajax Engineering Saurab Kapoor named VP – Marketing (Future Mobility) at TVS Motor Company Vikram Bahl joins as CMO at United Breweries Jaguar Land Rover India President & MD Rohit Suri to retire Škoda Auto India’s Head of Marketing and Head of Sales resign Welspun Corp appoints Kumaar Priyaranjan as the CHRO Avi Kumar becomes CBO of Coto Piaggio Vehicles appoints Amit Sagar as Executive Vice President CV Domestic Business (ICE) and Retail Finance Turno strengthens its marketing vertical, appoints ex-AJIO and ex-Mercedes leader Nexgen Energia appoints Shipra Roongta as CFO Board of Orient Cement appoints CFO Board of PCBL appoints director Board of Responsive Industries appoints director Board of Uno Minda appoints director Board of Jindal Stainless appoints directors Board of Lloyds Metals & Energy appoints director Board of Polycab India appoints director Goa Carbon appoints Vikrant Garg as CFO
Infrastructure	read more
Vedanta Cairn Oil and Gas appoints Nick Walker as CEO Indus Towers appoints Prachur Sah as new MD and CEO TARC appoints Suneet Singh as its new vice president-marketing Snowman Logistics appoints N Balakrishna as CFO PTC India appoints director Ritco Logistics appoints CTO
Media	read more
Rajeev Dhal roped in as COO of AdOnMo Enormous appoints Ashish Kharwatkar as ECD Rubeena Singh to join AnyMind Group as Country Manager – India & MENA Prachi Bali moves on from FoxyMoron TV9 Network names Vikas Srivastava as President – Marketing Sapna Arora named Chief Client Officer of Dentsu India QYOU Media India elevates Pankaj Rai and Ashish Kotekar to strengthen national sales team Sunil Nair moves on from Firework Tejashree Karkera joins as GroupM’s Group Head- Digital Strategy & Planning Havas Media Group India appoints Sonali Bagal as Director – Marketing & Communications Innocean India appoints Santosh Kumar as COO YRF Talent names Punit Sheth as Head – Strategic Initiatives Nobin Dutta and Siddhi Bhopale join Little Lamb Films Ashish Bahl joins DY Works as CEO Ajit Varghese joins Disney Star as Head of Network Advertising Sales Wunderman Thompson India hires Rajeshwari Rao as Sr VP and ECD GroupM appoints Tanveer Kaur as National Senior Digital Strategy Director – Motivator R/GA CMO Ashish Prashar moves on NDTV president Suparna Singh resigns T Gangadhar joins Quotient Group as Co-Founder & Group CEO Go Colors’ Rahul Row moves on Tanisha Sangha quits Network18 Binodan Sarma joins DDB Mudra Group as Head of Digital – North Wunderman Thompson S Asia appoints Harsh Shah as Chief Digital Officer Karthik Nagarajan appointed CEO of Hogarth India OML Entertainment hires Manav Parekh as Creative Head for Branded Practice Sunil Nair named President of video ecomm tech company BeLive Reed Hastings steps down as Netflix CEO Hemanshu Makatia joins Starcom as AVP (Buying & Investment) Barcode Entertainment appoints Ajay Kulkarni as its Business Head The Hindu Group ropes in Karthik Nagappan as Head of Brand Havas Worldwide India appoints Debanjan Basak as Group Creative Director Chris Macdonald to step down as McCann’s Global Chairman & CEO Joy Chakraborty to move out of Zee Media Ruchir Khanna to take over as COO of Firstpost Mona Jain to join Zee News as Chief Revenue Officer Garage Worldwide gets Sanjay Deshmukh as CEO Scarecrow M&C Saaatchi elevates Mustafa Kapasi to ECD Bharat Express appoints Nishant Mishra as Marketing Head ahead of official launch Voxxy Media appoints Ravi Jhaveri as Chief Revenue Officer Radio Mirchi CEO Prashant Pandey moves on Sreenivasan Jain moves on from NDTV Nidhi Razdan quits NDTV: Report Parixit Bhattacharya bids farewell to TBWA\ India EssenceMediacom India appoints Sonali Malaviya as chief strategy and transformation officer Abhinay Bhasin joins ProfitWheel as head of product marketing Publicis Worldwide appoints Lokesh Sah as senior VP NextG Apex appoints Rajeev Ramachandran as CTO SingleInterface appoints Divia Aggarwal as Head of Finance Spring Marketing Capital ropes in Kaushik Dasgupta to Head the Investments Team TikTok elevates Sameer Singh as Head of Global Business, North America B4U Network hires new leadership roles Saregama India ropes in Shrirang Deodhar as Senior Manager – Music Marketing ITV Network appoints Aanchal Johar as Vice President – Brand Solutions Former Network 18 Technology Head Sanjay Sharma joins Bharat Express Amita Major joins Enormous as Head of Planning, Digital Bharat Express ropes in media veteran Varun Kohli as their CEO ZEEL elevates Arnab Mukherjee as EVP, Head, International AdSales Exhicon Events becomes public company, expands its board of directors Kamlesh Sutar appointed as editor-in-chief of Lokshakshi Marathi Deepak Chaurasia joins Zee News as Consulting Editor & anchor Wootag expand presence in India & appoint its first Country Manager OML appoints Manav Parekh as the Creative Head DEPT appoints new EMEA leader to accelerate growth in the region
Technology	read more
CMS IT Services appoints Sanjeev Singh as CEO and Managing Director Synechron appoints Christin Spigai as Chief Human Resources Officer Revolut appoints Flipkart’s Sandeep Nainwal as Head of People for India BluePi appoints Monika Marwah as HR Director Roadcast Technologies appoints Rueben Das as HR Head Infosys appoints Govind Iyer as independent director Cognizant appoints former Infosys President Ravi Kumar as new CEO Meta hires ex-Tata CLiQ CEO Vikas Purohit as India head of global business Darwinbox appoints Panuwat Benrohman as managing director for Thailand NetApp gets Ritesh Doshi as Director Commercial for India and SAARC Hitachi Vantara appoints Monica Kumar as CMO Gupshup appoints Vartika Verma as Senior Director Global – Marketing Raj Raghavan joins CoreStack as CHRO Pine Labs ropes in Srinivasan J as head – HR services Sangram Pawar joins The DataTech Labs as CHRO Infogain appoints Tyson Hartman as Chief Technology Officer Trigital Technologies appoints Dr Santosh Honnagunti as CEO Cognizant looks to get its mojo back under new CEO Ravi Kumar S TPV Technology appoints Atul Jasra as Country Head – India MobiKwik appoints Preety Pandey to lead finance function ASUS India appoints Tribhuwan Joshi as head of corporate communications Siemens appoints director Board of Infosys appoints director
Others	read more
Tata Trusts hires Siddharth Sharma as CEO, Aparna Uppaluri as COO All you need to know about NASA’s new Chief Technologist A C Charania Randstad names new leaders for APAC, NA and technologies business Kantar names Cheong Tai Leung as CEO of insights business in APAC Ipsos makes two key appointments to global executive committee Ipsos India makes senior appointments in marketing functions Vikas Agarwal named Co-Founder and CBO of Credit Fair TIAA GBS India appoints Hema Priya Sukumar as Director, Employee Relations.. Sideways ropes in Swati Balani as creative head of digital Sideways onboards Aditi Patwardhan as chief strategy officer Groyyo appoints Abhishek Srivastava as Chief Technology Officer Allegis Group appoints Venkat Shastry as India MD IAMAI’s TravelTech committee announces new leadership CareEdge appoints Swati Agarwal as Chief Executive Officer, CART LLC appoints Ahmad Faraz as Intellectual Properties, Special Projects Head US CDC appoints Indian-origin Nirav Shah as second-in-command
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