March 2021

	March 2021

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BFSI	read more
Mashreq names Mohua Sengupta as new Managing Director Matam Venkata Rao appointed MD & CEO of Central Bank Arcil appoints Pallav Mohapatra as CEO & MD Chirag Gandhi is new MD Senior Advisor, Team Head, at Julius Baer India Asia Capital announces resignation of the director Aye Finance appoints new CTO Devdutt Chand Appointed Executive Director Of Bank Of Baroda Bank of India appoints three executive directors Berkshire Hills Bancorp appoints Subhadeep Basu as CFO Bharti AXA Life Insurance appoints new Deputy Vice President and Head of Technology Infrastructure CARE Ratings appoints Sachin Gupta as Chief Ratings Officer Central Bank of India appointed 2 Executive Directors Elitecon International announces resignation of MD Avaiz Ali Equitas Small Finance Bank appoints new leaders in Technology, Digital, Operations, HR and Affordable Housing Finance verticals FIDC appoints T T Srinivasaraghavan as chairman emeritus Fidelity International appoints Nitin Sharma as the India Site Head Fincare Small Finance Bank appoints Sai Suryanarayana M as Chief People Officer Geojit Financial Services appoints Mini Nair as CFO IIFL Securities appoints Manav Verma as CMO S Srimathy assumes charge as Executive Director of IOB Imran Amin Siddiqui appointed as ED of Indian Bank Kalaari Capital ropes in former Paytm operations chief as partner Karnataka Bank appoints Dr. D S Ravindran as Additional Director Mani Mulki, Tata Capital CIO joins Kedaara Capital Kotak Mahindra Bank Appoints Dr Ashok Gulati as an Additional Independent Director on its Board Mahindra Finance Appoints Amit Raje as Chief Operating Officer Digital Finance Digital Business Unit Max Financial Services Limited appoints Mr. K. Narasimha Murthy as an Independent Director Mirae Asset MF Announces Appointment of Fund Manager and Key Personnel Standard Chartered CEO of Middle East and Africa joins MoneyTap as Global Adviser mPokket appoints Sanjoy Kumar Agarwal as new Chief Financial Officer Nippon India MF appoints Pranay Sinha as senior fund manager Nippon Life India Asset Management Reappoints Sikka as, Executive Director, CEO PhonePe appoints Ankita Biyani as Growth Marketing Manager Piramal appoints Saurabh Mittal as CTO of Retail Finance Business Rajkot Investment Trust MD Nishant Nyati resigns Sterling Bank appoints two directors Sun Life Announces Manjit Singh as Chief Financial Officer Aakash Goel exits Trifecta Capital amid new fund closure Uco Bank gets a new executive director after a year U GRO Capital Appoints Amit Gupta As Chief Treasury Officer U GRO Capital appoints Pia Shome as chief people officer Ujjivan SFB appoints Ittira Davis as the new part-time Chairman Nitesh Ranjan assumes charge as Executive Director of Union Bank of India Virat Leasing Ltd announces resignation of CFO Manoj Biyani
Consumer	read more
JSL Lifestyle appoints Rajesh Mohata as CEO and Executive Director Sameer Katole appointed as the CEO of Crossloop Ola Face Another Top Level Exit As Ola Foods CEO Pranay Jivrajka Resigns Raymond CMO Shantiswarup Panda moves on AB InBev elevates Vineet Sharma as VP, marketing and new business development for South Asia Vandana Knitwear announces resignation of MD Mukesh Gadiya Adinath Exim Resources appoints Manoj Shantilal Savla as Chairman Aditya Birla Fashion appoints Vikram Rao and Yogesh Chaudhary as Additional Directors Angi Appoints Kulesh Shanmugasundaram Chief Technology Officer Astron Paper & Board Mill appoints Vashishath Raval as CFO Astron Paper & Board Mill announces resignation of CFO Parth Patel CavinKare appoints Amlan Pati as digital marketing head Emami Paper Mills CEO P S Patwari resigns Grob Tea Co announces resignation of CFO Bajrang Lal Patawari Annapurna Vishwanathan moves on from Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Organic India appoints Akila Chandrasekar as Marketing Head Ovobel Foods CFO Sudhir Kulkarni resigns PepsiCo Indias Dilen Gandhi to join Reckitt Benckiser Praxis Home Retail Ltd announces appointment of directors RCL Retail CFO Kishan Sunil Bhagat resigns Ruchi Soya Industries announces appointment of Sanjay Kumar Aggarwal as CFO Sameer Aggarwal appointed COO of Sam’s Club US ecommerce business Shirpur Gold Refinery appoint Shankar Bhandari & Prakashchandra Pandey as Non Executive Directors Sutlej Textiles And Industries announces appointment of Updeep Singh Chatrath as CEO Tata Consumer Products appoints TV Swaminathan as global chief digital officer
Hospitality	read more
GoAir MD Jeh Wadia steps down, Ben Baldanza appointed as Vice Chairman Former TCS Chief Vinod Bhat joins Vistara as CIO replacing Ravinder Pal Singh Lufthansa appoints Elise Becker as vice president for Asia Pacific Luxury Escapes appoints Arun Ashok as regional Head for India and Middle East market Accor appoints Reema Diwan as Director Design and Technical Services Concept Hospitality appoints Sujadh Khan as Director Sales Crowne Plaza Today Gurugram appoints Deepak Behl as the Director of Sales and Marketing Aashka Sodha joins DoubleTree by Hilton Pune Chinchwad as Human Resources and Training Manager Indu Khatri joins Fairmont Jaipur as Deputy Director Sales and Marketing Arun Kumar Singh joins FHRAI-IHM as Director Hard Rock Hotel Goa appoints Tanuj Arora as Hotel Manager Aditya Shamsher Malla joins Hilton Bangalore Embassy GolfLinks as General Manager Hyatt Regency Dharamshala Resort appoints Kuljit Singh as HR Director Hyatt Regency Pune Hotel & Residences appoints N Gopi as executive chef ibis appoints Ajit Jose and Sandip Satange as General Manager Indore Marriott Hotel appoints Rishi Kumar as General Manager JW Marriott Kolkata appoints Sumeet Suri as their General Manager Kochi Marriott Hotel appoints Subhankar Bose as General Manager Sarovar Hotels and Resorts appoints K Paul Singh as the new General Manager of Park Plaza, Zirakpur Stic Travel Group names Isha Goyal as CEO Amit Mathuri joins The Fern Residency, Jamnagar as their General Manager The Fern Hotels & Resorts appoints Sujadh Khan as Director of Sales – RSO Bengaluru Sunil Kumar appointed as General Manager at soon to launch Westin Goa The Westin Mumbai Garden City appoints Rashmi Jain as Director of Finance The Westin Mumbai Garden City welcomes Sonali Merchant as Director of Human Resources
Industrial	read more
HAIL appoints Ganesh Natarajan as Chairman Dr. Anish Shah appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. Star Sports Gautam Thakar is now Global CEO OLX Autos Nayara Energy gets new CEO; incumbent Anand elevated as president Kiran Patil named Managing Director of Wonder Cement Ltd TIL appoints Rajiv Soni as CEO Zoomcar appoints Uri Levine as chairman of its board Adhunik Industries appoints Rama Shankar Gupta as Chairman Pudi Ravi Krishna Joins Airmeet as Director, Product Design Ankit Metal & Power says Suresh Kumar Patni resigns as Chairman Sapan Gupta elevated as global legal head of ArcelorMittal Ravi Agarwal, President Rupa & Co Ltd appointed as chairman ASSOCHAM Eastern Region Council Balasore Alloys announces resignation of cfo Nikunj Pansari Best Agrolife announces resignation of cfo Deepak Bhutani D K Mohanty appointed as chairman of CII for Vizag zone Cords Cable Industries announces resignation of cfo Manoj Kumar Gupta Cords Cable Industries appoints Sandeep Kumar as CFO Sujeeth Pai joins Danfoss Drives as Director of Sales and Service Duke Offshore Ltd announces resignation of Shaival Suresh Trivedi as CFO Duke Offshore appoints Venkatesham Busa as CFO Electrotherm (India) Ltd announces resignation of CFO Shraddha Vyas Engineers India announces change in directorate GWEC India appoints its first policy director IGC Industries appoints Prachi Rajesh Marwah as CFO Impex Ferro Tech announces resignation of Suresh Kumar Patni as Chairman ISF Ltd announces resignation of MD Amarjit Singh Hardeep Singh Brar appointed as National Head of Sales and Marketing at Kia Motors India Iol Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals appoints Sanjay Chaturvedi as CEO Manorama Industries appoints Nipun Mehta as Independent director Organic Coatings announces resignation of Shivshyam Maurya as CFO Pearl Polymers appoints Anant Kanoi and Ramesh Mehra as Additional Directors Polylink Polymers (India) appoints Mrs. Jyoti Shastri non executive independent director Rathi Steel And Power announces appointment of Rekesh Verma as CEO & CFO REHAU appoints Bhavana Bindra as Managing Director, South Asia Rungta Irrigation announces resignation of Joint MD N Krishnamurthy Sivakumar P joins SAR Group as CTO of EV business vertical Sharda Motor Industries appoints Srinivasan Narasimhan as CFO SML Isuzu names Junya Yamanishi as MD, CEO Ajay Mathur takes over as Director General of International Solar Alliance Subros names Hemant Agarwal as CFO Super Crop Safe to appoint Nishant Patel as MD, CFO Anju Banerjee resigns as Independent Director at Technofab Engineering Hardip Singh Goindi joins Three Wheels United as Chief Operating Officer Board of Ultracab (India) approves change in directorate
Legal	read more
Jerome Merchant hires Palash Gupta from Collyer Singapore to head int arbitration Khaitan & Co to expand to Singapore with foreign lawyer practice, arb under Anuj Shah, Jean Muller VoxLaw managing partner Udayan Choksi joins Khaitan in indi tax, hands over reins to Samir Kapadia L&L hires Dhir banking partner Girish Rawat and 2 lit partners, ex-judge alum Amrita Tonk, indie ex CAM Sidhartha Barua Luthra homegrown corp partner Damini Bhalla exits Khaitan hires Luthra Delhi IP partner Nirupam Lodha MZM takes on of counsel Mohammad Shine as permanent partner in criminal disputes S&R nabs Luthra cap markets Jitesh Shahani Khaitan PA Savani Gupte joins Samvad Mumbai disputes Trilegal promotes 5 to partner White & Brief continues aggressively, adds tax vertical with ELPs Vineet Nagla, Prateek Bansal to hit 6 partners One of early outbound India lateral partners, Rahul Guptan, to move from Clifford Chance to White & Case cap markets
Media & Entertainment	read more
Creativeland Asia appoints Shalini Sinha as CEO of consumer intelligence and director of strategy Ravi Capoor appointed CEO of SANSAD TV Ogilvy appoints Kedar Mehta as head of consulting for its experience business in India ZEEL appoints Rajiv Bakshi as Chief Operations Officer, Revenue 9X Medias Pawan Jailkhani moves on, Alok Nair appointed as Chief Revenue Officer Nachiket Pantvaidya moves on from Balaji Telefilms Carat India appoints Ashish Singh as Vice President Planning Dsj Communications appoints Shrikant Chilveri as CFO Enterr10 Television Networks elevates Shrutish Maharaj as Group Chief Business Officer ENV Media Recruits New Head of SEO, Rolls Out New Front-End Solutions Reedisha Rathi, ex TOI Group, joins Fickle Formula Gaana CEO Prashan Agarwal moves on Infectious Advertising elevates Chirag Raheja to Head of Copy Infectious Advertising ropes in Nitin Sharma as VP, business Arun Saha joins Iris Singapore as Head of PR Josh sets up Josh Studios, ropes in Seher Bedi as Head of Josh Studios Madison Digital appoints Tushar Ghagwe as Associate Vice President Mitron names Bhawin Jagad as Director of Product Design Manan Shah joins Network Advertising as Vice President, Digital Noise appoints Utsav Malhotra as its new Chief Operations Officer Omnicom Media Group India appoints Shailja Saraswati Varghese as Head of Content Amrita Randhawa leaves Mindshare to join Publicis Groupe Siriti makes senior level creative appointments Rahul Saigal and Vipul Salvi join Sparkt as partners Verizon Media Promotes Paul Sigaloff To Lead Teams Across India And South East Asia Sweety Advani joins Wondrlab as Chief Financial Officer
TECH & TELECOM	read more
Oracle, Intuit veteran Sanket Atal joins Salesforce as India MDs Teradata bolsters India leadership, appoints Ashok Shenoy as country manager Truecaller appoints Rishit Jhunjhunwala as managing director of India unit WhatsApp Pay appoints Amazon’s Manesh Mahatme as India head ZTE India gets new CEO amid uncertainty over BSNL business Wipro Appoints Pierre Bruno as Chief Executive Officer for Europe, Strengthens Commitment to the Region upGrad appoints Sendy Filemon as Country Head, Indonesia STL appoints Chris Rice as CEO for its Access Solutions Business Nick Sharma Announced as CEO to Lead Synerzip/Prime Salesforce appoints Arun Parameswaran as MD for sales and distribution in India Gaming platform PlayerzPot appoints Sunil Yadav as CEO QX Global Group Appoints Ravi Kurani as Country Head for North America NXTDIGITAL appoints Vynsley Fernandes as Managing Director of the company Gokada appoints Nikhil Goel as new CEO Clover Infotech appoints Kunal Nagarkatti as CEO, Siddharth Deshmukh as COO 365squared Ltd appoints Tonio Ellul as Chief Executive Officer with Immediate Effect Accolite Digital appoints Rajesh Balasubramanian as Head People and Culture Alteryx Appoints Former Google Executive, Anjali Joshi, to Its Board of Directors American Tower Corp appoints Sanjay Goel as executive VP ANS Commerce appoints Manasvi Mohan Lal as Business Director AppsFlyer Promotes Sanjay Trisal As New General Manager to strengthen regional collaboration Aspire Global recruits Aditya Bhushan as CTO Aspire Systems appoints Krishnan Jayaraman as Business Unit Head for Enterprise Analytics Akshay Verma Joins AutoFlipz as Vice President Satellite Broadband Firm Avanti UK Make Ex OneWeb Man CTO Baazi Games ropes in Divyenndu as their new Social Media Baazigar BitTitan Names Manoj Kalyanaraman New VP of Product and Engineering Cashinvoice appoints Tata Capitals Govind Sankaranarayanan to board Mahesh Nandyala Joins CoEnterprise as Chief Product Officer Cybermate Infotek appoints PC Pantulu as Chairman Rail Cybersecurity in India, Cylus appoints Ashish Upadhyay to expand its footprint. DealShare appoints Bhupesh Gupta as Senior Director, HR Pooja Gupta appointed CPO, Delhivery FarEye hires talent pool of startup PY Technology, appoints Jignesh Vasani as VP Firework appoints Vishwak Sinva as Head of Digital Strategy Fittr appoints Kapil Mehta as Head of Marketing IPO bound Flipkart rejigs leadership, appoints Unilever veteran Hemant Badri as Senior VP Supply Chain Caesar Sengupta quits Google GreyOrange Gets New Chief People Officer Sunil Pandey joins HFCL as CIO InMobis Kumar Shailove joins Hiver as Vice President of Engineering Sandesh Sarang Appointed As Enterprise Director At Infobip Infosys appoints Chitra Nayak as an Independent Director from today Intel appoints Dr Randhir Thakur to head its newly standalone foundry business unit Saurabh Saxena appointed as Intuits India site leader JK Technosoft appoints Atanu Roy as VP-Delivery, Sreenivasa Rao Sunkari as AVP Delivery JK Technosoft appoints M Natarajan as Senior VP and Head of Finance & Accounts Jump Networks Ltd MD Harshawardhan Sabale to resign LEAD appoints Arpit Mundra as CFO, Vipul Redey as chief excellence officer Lenovo promotes Amar Babu to APAC lead Lycamobile appoints new chief information officer Micron Appoints Raj Hazra as SVP and GM of Compute and Networking Biz Neelam Dhawan joins B2B Commerce start-up Moglix as Board Advisor OLX People elevates Olive Sen as head of product and marketing OneShield Appoints Senior Industry Executive to Lead Implementation Services Palo Alto Networks Appoints Anil Valluri as Regional Vice President for India and SAARC Region HR tech company, PeopleStrong, hires Vineet Pandita as Dy. CTO Proseed India appoints Sreenivasa Chary and Venkata Apparao as Additional Directors Robinhood appoints former Google executive Aparna Chennapragada as chief product officer Sandhar Technologies appoints Yashpal Jain as CFO Former UnitedHealthcare Chief Data Officer Fawad Butt Joins Skyflow to Deliver Privacy-first Covid-19 Solutions SmartBear Appoints Vineeta Puranik as its New SVP of Engineering Narottam Sharma, IT Transformation Leader of Sterlite Technologies Moves on Traydstream boosts India, Middle East expansion with sales hires upGrad names Karan Raturi as General Manager for North America Vehere appoints Ramsunder Papineni as President, Global Sales Wipro appoints Philippe Dintrans as head of Domain & Consulting, iDEAS Wipro names Subha Tatavarti as its CTO WPP names Dave Rolfe as Global Head of Production Former Vi executive Sundeep Kathuria joins XiFi Networks Zicom Electronic announces resignation of CFO Zoomd Ltd has appointed Parthiban Vairamudi to head India operations Zupee Names Dr. Subi Chaturvedi As Chief Corporate & Public Affairs Officer
Others	read more
Kantar Public appoints Gaurav Sabharwal as India, South Asia CEO Quess Corp separates Chairman and MD roles, appoints new CFO Shriram Vijayakumar Appointed as CEO of IHH Healthcare India KPMG India appoints Accentures Anindya Basu as national managing partner Cipla reappoints Umang Vohra as MD & Global CEO for 5 years Colliers appoints senior leaders in capital markets and investment services team across India Dugar Housing Developments says Padam Dugar to resign as MD Krisumi Corporation appoints Vineet Nanda as Director Sales and Marketing Newtime Infrastructure appoints Ashish Pandit as Chairman PNC Infratech Board nods for the appointment of Subhash Chander as Additional Director Swagruha Infrastructure announces resignation of cfo Babu Sahebe Shaik Prasidha Menon joins Optum Global Solutions as director, marketing Biocon Biologics elevates Shreehas Tambe as deputy chief executive officer Biocons biosimilars subsidiary Biocon Biologics appoints Susheel Umesh as Chief Commercial Officer Cipla appoints Ratna Joshi as global head talent management Preetha Vasanji appointed as as Senior Vice President of Doceree Engage Future Group’s CMO Prachi Mohapatra joins Dr. Reddys Everest Organics appoints Venkatasatyanarayana Murthy as Additional Director US laboratory, Fermilab appoints Anju Jain as CHRO HealthCube appoints Runam Mehta as Chief Growth Officer Maze Therapeutics Appoints Atul Dandekar as Chief Strategy Officer and Expands Board of Directors NephroPlus appoints new independent director News Today OKYO Pharma announces appointment of Dr Rajkumar Patil as Chief Scientific Officer Asawari Sathaye named Director, Corporate Communications, OPPI AP Moller Maersk appoints CTIO Navneet Kapoor o companys board After Mehta, Subramanian quits Ashoka University BGC appoints Saurabh Chandra as Managing Director Epsilon announces two key appointments for APAC, MEA & SEA EuroKids International appoints Dr Indu Shahani to its board EuroKids International appoints Rohit Kumar as CHRO Greycells Education announces resignation of ceo Preeta D’souza IAAC Announces Appointment of Suman Gollamudi as Executive Director IIM-Calcutta Director Anju Seth Resigns Amid Rift With Board Kantar names Deepender Rana to lead South Asia Business Mahesh Rangarajan is new VC of Krea University MT Educare appoints Karunn Kandoi as Additional Director Prof. Rudra Pratap to join as Founding Vice Chancellor of the upcoming Plaksha University Suncare Traders CFO Rajkumar Chaudhary resigns Suncare Traders MD Niyant Parikh resigns Sunstone Eduversity appoints Ankur Jain as Chief Business Officer
Government	read more
Shri Sanjeev Kumar (IAS) appointed as Chairman of Airports Authority of India (AAI) Virendra Nath Datt, CMD of NFL joins RFCL as Chairman of the Board Bhopal Singh swears in as new Chairman of HSSC John M Thomas takes over as IT Parks Kerala CEO Sh. Ramesh Abhishek becomes the advisor of ADIF Shri A S Kesavan Nampoori took charge as Director-Technical, FACT Shri S Sakthimani took charge as Director Finance of FACT World Banks Deepak Mishra appointed as ICRIER director, chief executive Shri Upkar Kumar Kedia, ITS appointed as MOIL, CVO NALCO appointed Pradosh Basu as Director Finance NATHEALTH names Harsh Mahajan as president NHAI InvIT appoints Rajesh Kumar Singh as CHRO Shri P K Mohapatra, appointed as Managing Director ,OPGC Shri Anshul Bhargava appointed as Director HR, POSOCO Ashish Shrivastava, Punjab State Government CTO moves on Saurabh Garg appointed UIDAI CEO, Sanjeev Kumar to be AAI chief Murmu appointed chairman of an UN panel 14 CGMs/GMs elevated as Executive Directors in various public sector banks GP Samanta appointed Chief Statistician of India
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