May 2020

	May 2020

BFSI Consumer Industrial Legal Media & Entertainment TECH & TELECOM Others Government
BFSI	read more
Leo Puri to take over as Chairman of JP Morgan Max Bupa appoints Krishnan Ramachandran as MD, CEO SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd appoints Mr. Mahesh Kumar Sharma as MD and CEO Investor risk assessment firm Syntoniq appoints Harsha K as MD, India Grapevine: TPG veteran set to head KKR’s India PE business BBB selects SN Rajeswari as CMD of Oriental Insurance via video interview ePaisa appoints Pravinkumar Bhandari as CEO New CEO, President Take Helm at Crawford & Co. Ex Tata Capital CEO joins Standard Chartered India Credit Suisse appoints Head of Wealth Management for India Lakshmi Vilas Bank Extends tenure of Subramanian Sundar As Managing Director & CEO Chhibber to be J&K Bank Chairman, Zubair MD for 3 years SBI Life Insurance Company announces change in HR head Bajaj Allianz appoints Santanu Banerjee as its new CHRO Nishant Jain joins BharatPe as chief business officer Brazil’s Troyjo appointed president of BRICS bank; India’s Anil Kishora to be vice president Pratik Gauri appointed host and president of FINTECH.TV-India J&J’s Richa Goswami back at HSBC for second stint Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund Announces Appointment of Director KV Kamath resigns from National Development Bank Two senior executives quit Axis Bank for Piramal NBFC Govt appoints Tarun Bajaj as Director on RBI Central Board RBL Bank appoints Deepak Kumar as Chief Risk Officer Indian Economist Appointed To Key World Bank Position Yes Bank Appoints Neeraj Dhawan As Chief Risk Officer With Immediate Effect For 3 Years
Consumer	read more
Groupe SEB India appoints Ashish Kakkar as CEO Avon appoints Jayant Kapre as Managing Director for India Bhaane announces Deepika Deepti as CEO Chumbak appoints Vasant Nangia as CEO Board of Colgate-Palmolive (India) approves appointment of directors Fujifilm India ropes in Kunal Girotra as National Business Manager for INSTAX range of Cameras JK Paper announces change in company secretary Personal care brand Mamaearth announces key leadership appointments Bibhu Nanda joins Milk Mantra as COO OnePlus hires ex-Apple executive Navnit Nakra in key role for India Too Yumm! CMO Anupam Bokey moves on Tupperware Brands appoints new CHRO VAHDAM® Teas appoints Nikhil Sareen Chief Business Officer
Industrial	read more
Goodyear India appoints Sandeep Mahajan as MD GE Power India appoints Mahesh Palashikar as Chairman of the Board Mahesh Babu appointed Mahindra Electric’s MD and CEO Sterling and Wilson appoints Raghu Menon as CEO, CoGen Business Dr.Reddy’s Re-Appoints G V Prasad As Whole-Time Director Designated As Co-Chairman, MD DICV restructures Top Management team: Karl-Alexander Seidel appointed as India Head of Daimler Buses Prag Bosimi Synthetics Re-Appoints Hemant B. Vyas As MD NGL Fine Chem Re-Appoints Rahul Nachane As MD Aartech Solonics Approves Resignation Of Anil Anant Raje As Chairman And MD JSW Holdings – Re-Appointment Of Mr. K. N. Patel As Joint Managing Director, CEO & CFO Of JSW Holdings Limited Polaris India appoints Lalit Sharma as new Country Manager: Pankaj Dubey steps down Zydus Wellness Approves Re-Appointment Of Tarun Arora As CEO For 5 Yrs W.E.F. May 7 Urja Global Ltd Names Arun Bhardwaj As CEO Vaishali Pharma Ltd – Appointed Hemant Pathak As CEO Vedanta’s oil and gas head Ajay Dixit quits; co says his term comes to an end Vivimed Labs Appoints Ramesh Krishnamurthy As CEO Ganga Pharmaceuticals Names Sanjay Kulkarni As Chairman (Non-Executive) Deccan Gold Mines Re-Appoints Sandeep Lakhwara As Managing Director Air Works appoints A K Singh as an Independent Director Abhinav Bindra Appointed By Bajaj Auto As Independent Director Till May 2025 Brooks Laboratories Says Anil Kumar Pillai Resigns As CFO Cipla Ltd reappoints Ms. Samina Hamied and Ms Naina Lal Kidwai as directors Motors Names Kaleeswaran Arunachalam As CFO Mr. Vijay Chhibber Appointed as Director General of Electric Power Transmission Association (EPTA) Filatex India CFO Anil Mohla Resigns Honda 2Wheelers India rejigs top management Jiya Eco-Products Ltd – Vipul Shshikant Vora Resigns As CFO Maharashtra Seamless Ltd -Danish Parvaiz Bhat Appointed As CFO Mahindra & Mahindra’s CMO Vivek Nayer steps down Onelife Nutriscience appoints Vinay Jain as Chief Operating Officer Board of Shukra Pharmaceuticals approves change in CEO and appointment of director Shukra Pharmaceuticals Appoints Mehul Patel As CFO Dilip Oommen of AM/NS is the new president of India’s largest steel association Volkswagen Passenger Cars India appoints head of marketing Board of WABCO India appoints director Rajendra Mehta Is The New CHRO at Welspun India Great Wall Motors appoints James Yang as president, Parker Shi as MD for GWM India
Legal	read more
Big 4 PwC expands regulatory South with Algo partner Archan Chakraborty, PA Vijay Santosh Trilegal double-scoops CAM homegrown fin-reg partners Shruti Rajan, Garima Joshi (with 3 months’ notice) Ex-Luthra partner Alina Arora joins Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas as equity after 4-month break Link Legal hires SAM’s Vijay Sureka for corporate boost in Mumbai IC Universal Legal appoints new partner, announces promotions across levels SAM gets new COO to ‘navigate together’ in ‘critical times’: KPMG consultancy COO Jaideep Ghosh Singh Associates hires Luthra lit MA Apoorve Vashistha as partner designate, targets ‘aggressive… exponential growth’ Algo hires Ankit Guha after ex-JSA-SAM-VC lawyer sells his ed-tech start-up (NUJS ’09) UK shipping giant Watson Farley promotes ex-Trilegal-ILS Dhruv Paul to partner in Dubai Namita Das (NLUJ ’09) returns to Link Legal as partner after 6 years at AZB, SAM NDA’s Karan Kalra starts Bombay Law Chambers mid-Covid: Targets VCs, start-ups with novel external GC take Ex-Christ Law principal John Thaliath takes over top job at General Electric South Asia from 8-year GC Tejal Patil TTA promotes Deepa Christopher, Neville Golwalla to partner
Media & Entertainment	read more
Sony Music India hires Rajat Kakar as Managing Director Disney’s Kevin Mayer joins TikTok as CEO Hill+Knowlton Strategies appoints Abhishek Gulyani as CEO for India Liqvd Asia gets Sagnik Ghosh as managing partner Lowe Lintas CEO Raj Gupta hangs up his boots Former Havas Media CEO Anita Nayyar joins ZEE5 as head of customer strategy and relationships Ayaz Memon joins 1 Play Sports as Consulting Editor-in-Chief, India Disney+ Hotstar ropes in Anant Patel as Marketing Director Yogesh Manwani joins Applause Entertainment as Head of Marketing & Revenue CNN Worldwide appoints Rani Raad as President Fox Star Studios’ Rucha Pathak moves on to Excel Entertainment as Producer HT’s National Editor Padma Rao moves on ZEE5 India’s CEO Tarun Katial to head IAMAI’s digital entertainment committee JioSaavn brings Virginia Sharma on board as VP, brand solutions Khabri appoints Dushyant Kohli as Chief Operating Officer Pranav Harihar Sharma moves on from Leo Burnett Harsh Deep Chhabra to head Mindshare Fulcrum Monk Media Network elevates Tanya Mathana as COO Abhishek Vyas moves on from Zee Studios; joins Netflix India Ofcom appoints Alison Marsden as director of content standards Ogilvy India appoints Syed Mohammed Talha Nazim as Executive Creative Director Nandan Srinath joins Radio Mirchi’s holding firm as Executive President Industry Stalwart Bimal Parekh Joins the Board of Directors of Rainshine Entertainment Tanya Chaitanya moves on from Femina magazine, joins Reliance as the chief content officer Republic Media Network appoints Pooja Madan as Sales Director, North & East Shemaroo Entertainment appoints Sandeep Gupta as COO – Broadcasting Business Hyderabad: Silly Monks appoints Ratnakar as non-executive Chairman Pratap Bose steps down as Chairman & Founding Partner of The Social Street TikTok appoints Ashok A Cherian as the Marketing Head for India TVU Networks appoints Sushant Rai as VP sales for MEA and South Asia Vishwas Tripathi re-elected Chairman of UNI Board of Directors Premjeet Sodhi joins Wavemaker India as Chief Growth Officer M K Machaiah moves on from Mindshare; joins Wavemaker Windchimes Communications brings on board PK Anil as a partner and creative head OMD India’s Lalit Agrawal joins ZEEL PRHUB Founder Xavier PRabhu named next APAC President at IPREX
TECH & TELECOM	read more
Wipro names Capgemini’s Thierry Delaporte as CEO Nettlinx Appoints Manohar Loka Reddy As Chairman & MD Corning appoints Sudhir Pillai Managing Director for India Ola Money Raises INR 205 Cr From Matrix Partners, Appoints New CEO Criteo appoints Taranjeet Singh as Managing Director for Southeast Asia and India Google ropes in former Axis Bank CEO Shikha Sharma for its payments business Larsen & Toubro Infotech Re-Appoints Sanjay Jalona As CEO And MD Adrenalin eSystems Limited, a global HR software solutions company, announces the appointment of Suresh Kuppuswamy as Deputy CEO Mohit Gupta elevated as Zomato Co-founder Altimetrik appoints Krishna Muniramaiah as Head of HR, Asia Pacific Affle (India) appoints Sujoy Golan as Chief of Marketing & Omnichannel Platforms Former CarDekho Director appointed Baazi Games’ first-ever CFO Cognizant COO Srinivasan Veeraraghavachary to call it quits Cyient Appoints Felice Gray-Kemp as Global General Counsel Digisol Systems appoints Sarvesh Mishra as the Head of Sales and Marketing Dream Sports appoints Dev Bajaj as Chief Corp Development Officer Goibibo’s head of marketing Divyang Bhardwaj joins Facebook FarEye Appoints Amit Bagga As Chief Revenue Officer Sriram Venkataraman appointed as Flipkart, Myantra CFO Aashish Benjamin Oommen of Myntra elevated as Senior Director, Marketing Freshworks appoints SaaS veteran Tyler Sloat as new Chief Financial Officer Google ropes in the India research head at Microsoft Azure’s cloud division Google Cloud India appoints new VP, Engineering Bharani Kumar Aroll elected new HYSEA President Anant Ambani, Mukesh Ambani’s youngest son joins Jio Platforms as director, says ‘Reliance meri jaan hai’ India’s KPIT Tech Names Priyamvada Hardikar As CFO Somil Agrawal joins Makemytrip as director of marketing Mindshare India makes key leadership appointments Amandeep Singh Bhan is Senior Vice-President, Strategic Partnerships of Moglix Nettlinx CEO Chandra Sekhar Pogula Resigns Nodwin Gaming hires Lalita Nayak as new Head of Sales and Marketing IIMB alumnus Kishore M Naidu joins Opteamix LLC as Director of IT Operations OYO Hotels & Homes Announces the Appointment of Troy Alstead as Independent Member of the Board Paytm ropes in Vishal Shah as VP-talent and organisational development Prione Business Services ropes in Shilpa Vaid as head of human resources Qualtrics appoints new managing director for Asia Pacific, Japan Riverbed appoints Alex George as the Country Manager for India Sandhar Technologies Approves Appointment Of Narender Kumar Dogra As CFO Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria joins ShopX advisory board Swiggy co-founder Rahul Jaimini quits to join Pesto Tech Titan Intech MD K S Rao Resigns Uber CTO Thuan Pham steps down amidst job cuts Ex Google executive Kenny Kim joins Udacity as Chief Marketing Officer Velchamy Sankarlingam joins Zoom as President of Product and Engineering
Others	read more
Mahindra Lifespaces announces the appointment of Mr Arvind Subramanian as MD and CEO of the Company Colliers International India Appoints Ajay Sharma Ayyagari as Managing Director, Valuations (India) EIH Associated Hotels Re-Appoints Vikramjit Singh Oberoi As MD JTL Infra Approves Re-Appointment Of Managing Director Vipul Appoints Punit Beriwala As CEO KLAY Schools appoints AK Srikanth as the new CEO Flexituff Ventures International CFO Ajay Mundra Resigns Housejoy appoints Gaurav Joshi as senior vice president, growth and strategy PVV Infra Board Accepts Resignation Of CFO Lakshminarayana Badiga Vipul Ltd Says CEO Guninder Singh Tenders Resignation Ascott strengthens strategic leadership in India Talent search firm Catenon appoints Lakshmi Sridhar as VP Manoj Ahuja in new CBSE chief Vinay Jaswal is new HR head, InterContinental Hotels Group India Sotheby’s International Realty appoints Vineet Nanda as director of new projects Mahaan Impex Ltd -Appointed Manish Raichand Shah As Managing Director Shailaja Chandra to be appointed as Independent Director at Fortis Healthcare Ltd Lancor Holdings CFO K. Suryanarayanan Resigns LNJP Hospital gets a new Medical Director in MAMC Medicine Professor Dr Suresh Kumar Park Place Technologies Appoints Mohammed Atif As Business Development Director For India Santen appoints Dr Sophia Pathai as new Vice President of Medical Affairs EMEA Sanjay Rai takes over as the news Sr VP Sales & Marketing of Sarovar Hotels Talent investor, Entrepreneur First moves from strength to strength globally, announces high profile appointments Sujoy Sinha joins Unacademy as Associate Director – Brand Solutions Vedantu appoints Arvind Singhal as Chief Operating Officer Noted economist Deepak Nayyar appointed chairman of Institute of Development Studies Board of Trustees Nandini Sharma appointed Maulana Azad Medical College’s College’s Dean
Government	read more
ACC okays appointment of PK Das as CMD IREDA Shri Sanjay Kumar Jha assumes charge as CMD Midhani Govinda Rajulu Chintala appointed Nabard chairman Shri Manoj Jain gets additional charge of Mahanagar Gas Ltd Anand Kishore takes charge of Managing Director of Patna Metro Rail Corporation K Vinayak Rao takes over as finance member at AAI Balmer Lawrie And Company Approves Appointment Of Sandip Das As CFO Shri Baban Singh assumed the charge of director technical at MCL Dr. Anindaya Sinha assumes charge of director of NCL Shri Ramesh Babu takes over as director operations NTPC Mrs. Parminder Chopra appointed Director Finance PFC Seema Gupta assumes charge as Director of finance at PowerGrid Dr Ashutosh appointed as technical member BR Sharma takes oath as JKPSC chief Shri Sushil Sharma appointed as Director Electrical of SJVN Shri Sanjeeb Kumar takes over as director finance Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd
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