September 2023

	September 2023

BFSI CONSUMER_ECOMM GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRIAL_MANUFACTURING INFRASTRUCTURE LEGAL_LAW MEDIA Technology Others
BFSI	read more
Tamilnad Mercantile Bank appoints J Sundaresh Kumar as Chief Compliance Officer Uday Kotak steps down as CEO and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank Association of Investment Bankers of India (AIBI) appoints Mahavir Lunawat as Chairman InCred Capital onboards Philipp Orgler as Head of Product Development and Suchitra Subramanian as Head of Trading & Risk Management Federal Bank appoints Elias George to its Board Dipak Gupta’s appointment as interim MD of Kotak Mahindra Bank approved Buddy Loan’s VP Jitesh Shah quits Bandhan Bank’s CCO Sudheer Reddy Govula resigns Max Healthcare appoints Mayank Mathur as Senior VP – of Marketing EnKash onboards Vibhor Chugh as Chief Risk Officer ABN AMRO intends to appoint Ton van Nimwegen as COO and member of the Executive Board Aviva Life Insurance appoints Gyanendra Singh as chief technology officer Leadership change at Yes Bank SMFG India Credit appoints Gaurav Terdal as CHRO ICICI Lombard names Sanjeev Mantri as MD and CEO; Bhargav Dasgupta joins ADB as VP RBI extends HDFC CEO and MD Sashidhar Jagdishan’s appointment for 3 years Liberty General Insurance appoints Parag Ved as Director & CEO Designate Bandhan Bank’s CCO Sudheer Reddy Govula resigns UTI AMC appoints Vinay Lakhotia as Chief Financial Officer SBI General Insurance appoints Jitendra Attra as Chief Financial Officer 360 ONE launches its Global Platform with the appointment of Vikram Malhotra SBI Securities appoints Suresh Shukla as Chief Business Officer Bharti AXA Life Insurance appoints Rikhil Shah as Chief Financial Officer Tamilnad Mercantile Bank MD & CEO S. Krishnan resigns
CONSUMER_ECOMM	read more
Sonam Pradhan exits Mahindra, set to join Kellogg’s Reckitt’s Dilen Gandhi appointed MD at Tasty Bite DHR Global names Vikram Chhachhi as Managing Partner, APAC, Consumer & Retail Practice Nissin Foods elevates Sandeep Bakhshi to MD of Indian unit EW Nutrition appoints Jan Vanbrabant as new CEO Indo Nissin elevates Sandeep Bakhshi to Managing Director Dilen Gandhi appointed as MD, Tasty Bite Sachin Kataria moves on from Nykaa Pepperfry elevates Ashish Shah to CEO post Ambareesh Murty’s demise Anjana Ghosh moves on from Xotik Frujus Sonam Pradhan appointed as Head of Media & Digital Marketing at Kellogg’s India Pilgrim announces senior-level appointments Croma appoints Rohan Ekbote as Head of Media & PR Manyavar-Mohey appoints Bata’s Anand Narang as chief marketing and digital officer DHL Supply Chain appoints Apoorva Mishra as regional senior HR manager Swiggy’s Anuj Rathi moves on after 7-yr stint Gati appoints Palani Balasundaram as Head Digital Marketing Bisk Farm appoints Saikat Ghosh as Senior VP and Head of Sales Clensta on-boards Mamaearth’s Ashish Mishra as Co-founder and chief Business Officer HMD Global appoints Tanuj Patro as CFO for India & Asia Pacific markets
GOVERNMENT	read more
Century-old Railway Board gets Jaya Varma Sinha as the first woman chairperson Singapore Tourism Board appoints Lim Kean Bon as Area Director, India, S Asia & Africa Century-old Railway Board gets Jaya Varma Sinha as the first woman chairperson
HEALTHCARE	read more
Alkem Laboratories appoints Dr. Vikas Gupta as CEO Jupiter ropes in Swiggy’s Anuj Rathi as Chief Product & Marketing Officer Vijaya Diagnostic Center appoints new MD and CEO Leadership rejigs at Biocon; Peter Bains named as Group CEO Pureplay Skin Sciences CMO Shivani Behl moves on Nishant Nayyar joins Kaya as VP and Head of Marketing Glenmark Pharmaceuticals appoints Alpana Vartak as senior VP- HR Alive Wellness Clinics appoints Deepanshu Khurana as chief business officer ClearMedi majority stake; Cdr. Navneet Bali appointed as group CEO Mansi Sharma elevated to creative director of House of Beauty Mayank Rautela joins Apollo Hospitals as Group CHRO Prakriti Sinha joins Sandoz India as Head – People & Operations
HOSPITALITY	read more
Park Hyatt Chennai appoints Michael Lestourgeon as DoSM Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park Gate elevates Gobu Kumar as Executive Chef. Khushnooma Kapadia elevated to VP, of Marketing at Marriott International Hyatt Regency Trivandrum announces two key elevations JW Marriott Mumbai Sahar appoints Chef Alessandro Piso as new Italian chef at Romano’s Jacob Paul was appointed Director of Human Resources at Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park Maria Turkmani appointed Complex Lifestyle Marketing Manager at Al Habtoor City Hotel Collection The Westin Resort and Spa Himalayas appoints Pankaj Singh Panwar as Executive Chef Deepak Rana appointed Executive Chef at The Roseate New Delhi The Orchid Mumbai appoints Shubhamoy Banerjee as General Manager Crowne Plaza Greater Noida appoints Neha Rustagi as Marketing & Communication Manager Novotel Ahmedabad appoints Sunil Dhasmana as the new Learning and Development Manager Khushnooma Kapadia was promoted as Vice President of marketing, South Asia, Marriott International Inc Park Hyatt Chennai appoints Michael Lestourgeon as DoSM Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park Gate elevates Gobu Kumar as Executive Chef. Charanya Sathyamoorthy was elevated as Financial Controller for Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park Pavan Kumar Manikonda joins The Lalit Ashok Bengaluru as General Manager NHCC and HICC elevate Prabin CB as Director of Revenue Management JW Marriott Maldives Resort & Spa welcomes Srijith Ravindranath as Director of Sales and Marketing The Westin Maldives Miriandhoo Resort appoints Debanjan Kundu as Director of Sales and Marketing Praveg announces resignation of Paras Patel as Managing Director Marriott International elevates Vinay Jaswal to VP-HR
INDUSTRIAL_MANUFACTURING	read more
Jatin Punamiya to head Loreal’s media, digital & audience data Schneider Electric appoints Niharika Mohan as VP-HR Pratip Francis joins MRF Tyres as GM, to head Brand Marketing Daimler India Commercial Vehicles appoints Sreeram Venkateswaran as President & Chief Business Officer Shirish Agarwal joins Samsung India as Director-Marketing Schneider-owned Luminous appoints Shikha Gupta as CHRO after Niharika Mohan’s exit Audi of America names Emilie Cotter as Head of Brand Marketing and Communications, Chief Marketing Office Shirish Agarwal returns to Samsung India as Director – Marketing United Breweries names Vivek Gupta as MD & CEO Morris Garages India names Abhishek Malhotra as the Marketing Lead for EV business Wayfair India The Phoenix Mills onboards Gautam Srivastava as HR director MK Agrotech appoints Sridhar Vaidyanathan as COO Saurabh Vatsa resigns from Citroen India Asian Paints appoints Ireena Vittal to its Board ACG appoints Borja Guerra as VP of International Sales at ACG Engineering Neetu Gursahani joins ADF Foods as Head of Marketing & Branding Anand Singh Saluja joins Oppo India as Senior Manager-Marketing Mustufa Arsiwalla joins Ferrero as Trade Marketing Director Maneesha Khanna named Senior Director- Global Media Capability Lead at PepsiCo Umesh Jadhav is now CHRO, Infiiloom Vedanta appoints Chris Griffith as CEO for Base Metals Green panel appoints Sunil Singh & Shital Gupta at the C-suite level Saurabh Agrawal transitions from Lenskart into a consultant role G Ravindran R joins Hogar Controls and SuperSurfaces as vice president of marketing Sharad Jain joins Revolt Motors as Vice President – HR Ajay Virmani and Aditya A. Shriram were elected as President & Vice President of AMAI
INFRASTRUCTURE	read more
SILA appoints Sakshi Shahapure as group HR head Tribes appoints Arpan Jain as Chief Creative Officer Gati appoints Palani B as Head-Digital Marketing Sophie Ames is the new EVP & CPO, Mitel WeWork India Announces Senior Leadership Appointments Bajel Projects Limited appoints Rajesh Ganesh as Managing Director ReNew appoints Kailash Vaswani as Chief Financial Officer Nilay Chandra of Ather Energy moves on Kuwait Airways appoints Ahmed Alkreebani as acting CEO Kiran Prasad Ivaturi joins Lodha Ventures as Group CHRO
LEGAL_LAW	read more
Rohit Sharma and Rubal Bansal Maini join Luthra and Luthra as Partners Ma HanFeng joins Oon & Bazul as Partner to set up Tax Practice Dentons Link Legal makes six Partners Sirisha Sampat joins SNG & Partners as Partner in Real Estate practice Nishith Desai Associates appoints Darren Punnen as Head of the Munich Office S Rohit Kumar joins Trilegal as Counsel in Tax practice JSA strengthens Chennai office after merger with Commercial Law Advisors Aditya Bhattacharya joins Samvād: Partners as a Partner Khaitan lawyer Himanshu Vidhani joins Chandhiok & Mahajan as a Partner in Disputes and Insolvency practices Nishant Arora joins Kochhar & Co. as a Partner in Real Estate and M&A practice Abhinav Maker quits SAM to join Trilegal as a Partner in the Capital Markets practice Lall & Sethi appointed Jyotideep Kaur as the new Managing Partner of the firm
MEDIA	read more
Economic Times’ Brand Director Neeti Chopra moves on Red Bangle appoints Vivek Chandra Shenoy as VP of Marketing and Strategy Global Media appoints Kritika Arora as the Director of Performance & Acquisitions Reha Rewal, and Saurabh Chauhan were elevated as Nat’l Creative Directors at Tribes Communications Ideacafe appoints Ritesh Chaudhary as Chief Content Officer Ruchika Mehta joins the India Today Group Rahul Shivshankar to join Network18 as Consulting Editor Abhijeet Dhar moves on from CNN Disney Star promotes Subin Devan as Associate Director – Ad Sales, Sports POKKT’s VP-Sales Piyush Chhaperwal moves on MX Player’s Abhishek Jaggi joins Way2News as National Sales Lead Guy Marks named CEO of PHD Worldwide ABP Group appoints Soumava Maiti as Chief Marketing Manager Venugopal Kasturi elected as Chairman of Kasturi and Sons Rahul Shivshankar to join Network18 as consulting editor Ex-Twitter country head Kanika Mittal appointed as Taboola Country Manager ET elevates Pranab Dhal Samanta, Mallika Rodrigues and Vinay Pandey Raj Nayak appointed to the advisory board of YAAP Arjun Paramhans is India Director, Strategy & Influencer Management for AnyTag WPP appoints Andrew Scott to the board as Executive Director Industry grapevine: Is Dheeraj Sinha joining FCB India Ramgopal Iyer joins MediaSmart as Director – Partnerships and Strategy, India & SEA Moneycontrol’s Ravi Krishnan joins Mint The Economic Times Mandeep Singh joins NDTV as revenue head Red Bangle appoints Ankur Bora as Senior Vice President – Business Development and Client Servicing The Marcom Avenue appoints Nikhil Sharda as AVP – Marketing Rana Barua elected president of The Ad Club RK Swamy Hansa Group’s Srinivasan K. Swamy elected as Chairman of ABC Deepak Saluja joins Pivot Marketing as Chief Strategy Officer Endorphins Entertainment appoints Ahmad Faraz as Director and COO to lead India and Global Operations Monk Entertainment onboards Aju Philip and Aishwarya Gunjal to strengthen South India presence Khushboo Gupta appointed as Business Head – Performing Arts by Mediascope Wardwizard Group appoints Tejas Mehta as CFO Iron Mountain appoints Arvind Subramanian as EVP and MD, India Bharat Media & Entertainment Group appoints Aatif Ali as Business Lead- East Saugata Gupta named ASCI Chairman Ravish Kumar bids adieu to Viacom18 after 12-year stint Sruthijith KK joins ET as Executive Editor, Bodhisatva Ganguli assumes mentorship role Ullu appoints Avinash Dugar as CEO Connect OOH onboards Aditya Goel as National Head BBH India appoints Swati Balani as Executive Creative Director, Mumbai Bharat Express appoints Yana Mir as Senior Anchor Entravision India onboards Deepak Makkar to lead North India business Posterscope India appoints Pallavi Patil as Vice President – Strategy Chandrahas Shetty appointed Head of Demand – India at Magnite Laqshya Media elevates Amarjeet Singh Hudda to COO Manoj Mathan named CEO of Radio Mango Criteo appoints Mohit H Chablani as Head of Sales – Enterprise, India Shanth Kumar of Deccan Herald is PTI Chairman, Praveen Someshwar of HT is Vice-Chairman Mansi Mehta is now head – HR at Gypsy Moth The Telegraph appoints Sankarshan Thakur as the Editor Sruthijith K K appointed Executive Editor at The Economic Times Hashtag Orange appoints Ishwarya G Raman in HongKong NewsReach Appoints Anirudh Sanjeev, Formerly of Business Wire India, as New Head of Sales GroupM’s Anilkumar Sathiraju joins Ants Digital as vice president of growth Jahangeer Khan joins Garage Group as AVP New Business and Client Servicing ABP Network CEO Avinash Pandey re-elected as President of the IAA India Chapter MRUCI elects Shailesh Gupta as Chairman and Shashank Srivastava as Vice Chairman Ogilvy rejigs leadership; Hephzibah Pathak appointed exec chairperson, VR Rajesh new CEO, and Piyush Pandey moves into advisory role Manish Menon joins Madison World to head Human Resources Boomlet Group announces appointments in the leadership team
Technology	read more
WNS announces retirement of John Freeland from the Board Firstsource Solutions appoints Ritesh Mohan Idnani as MD & CEO AnyMind Group names Riddhi Gupta to lead the gaming vertical Iris appointed Dibyendu (Joy) Mishra as Managing Director, of India Nasscom names Rajesh Nambiar as the new Chairperson after Anant Maheshwari steps down BDx Data Centers hires Prasheel Pardhe as global HR Head Capillary Technologies appoints Melody Mitchem as Global Head of HR Netscribes gets Patrick Tobin as Senior Vice President – Americas Dheeraj Sinha quits Publicis Groupe India Bharti Airtel announces the resignation of Abbas A. Rangawala as Group Head – M&A and Business Development Aspen Aerogels appoints Santhosh Daniel as Chief Accounting Officer SAP Lab’s first woman MD Sindhu Gangadharan joins Nasscom as vice chairperson Tech Mahindra elevates Harshvendra Soin as President APJ, Telecom, and Enterprise business Dheeraj Sinha named FCB Group CEO India, South Asia; Rohit Ohri gets new global role Signpost India appoints Sajesh Raghavan as COO Nielsen names Karthik Rao as CEO Ipsos India ropes in Shalini Sinha Tenon Group announces key management changes Termgrid appoints Anthony Sage as Global Head of Private Credit and Bank Coverage Altysys appoints Arjun Malhotra as Chairman of its Advisory Board EQUIPPP appoints Guruprasad Sowle as Advisor Wipro appoints Aparna C Iyer as CFO Edenred India appoints Kumar Vikrant as Business Head Cognizant appoints former Wipro executive Jatin Dalal as CFO Opendoor welcomes Venkata Machavarapu as the new India country head BYJU’S India gets Arjun Mohan as CEO Shell India’s Chairman Nitin Prasad joins Cyient’s Board of Directors Ants Digital appoints Anil Sathiraju as Vice President, Growth Initiatives Avyan Global brings Rahul Welde as partner and advisor Sharmila Sherikar is now Sr VP & head – corp. dev. Sonata Software Kalam appoints Deepanshu Singh as Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Kapture CX appoints Garima Rai as the VP of Marketing Samsung India appoints Shubham Mukherjee as Head Corp Comm Nikita Singh joins Park+ as head of customer experience Atlassian elevates Avani Prabhakar to Global Head of Talent and HR Business Partners CMS IT Services to strengthen its Operations, Delivery, and sales force with new Senior Leaders Indium Software appoints Jagannath Bharadwaj as Chief Operating Officer Dell Technologies appoints Steve Mollenkopf to its Board
Others	read more
L’Oréal appoints Manashi Guha as Consumer Products Division MD, UK & Ireland United Breweries appoints Vivek Gupta as MD & CEO CanAm appoints Piyush Gupta as VP for India and Middle East USISPF appoints Peter Marrs, General Manoj Mukund Naravane, and General Rich Clarke to the Board PrepInsta promotes Vibudh Upadhyay to Head of Growth Strategy Havells India appoints Indraneel Kumar Das as joint VP – HR SailPoint appoints Abhishek Gupta as Managing Director in India BHEL appoints Tajinder Gupta as Director (Power) ADF Foods appoints Pheroze Mistry to its Board SynSmart appoints Saurabh Kapure as CEO JCPenney India appoints Kaushik Das as Managing Director Tips Industries ropes in former TikTok Music executive Hari Nair as its new CEO Smita Murarka joins Deloitte as Director Divyanshu Singh elevated as COO of JSW Sports Deloitte appoints Smita Muraka as the Director DTL appoints Siva Prasad Nanduri as the CEO Iris appoint Dibyendu Mishra as the Visionary Force Behind India Operations The Audit Bureau of Circulations elects members for the year 2023-24 Madhur Pahuja joins Atlys as head of customer success
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