Important Moves

Thomas Cook India has a new Managing Director
The board of Thomas Cook India has appointed Madhavan Menon as Managing Director of the company. Mr. Menon was earlier the Executive Director, largely looking after the forex business.

Vaswani the new MD at Temasek Holdings
Dinesh Vaswani will take charge as MD (investment) at Temasek Holdings advisors India. Mr. Vaswani was formerly with Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) as entrepreneur in residence.

Rajiv Kaul joins as Senior Vice -President Leela Ventures
Rajiv Kaul, a senior professional with 28 years of experience in hospitality industry has joined the core management team of Hotel Leela Ventures as Senior Vice – President of Operations. More recently he was with the Taj group managing its flagship property in Mumbai.

Mason & Summers revamps Top Management
Alco Bev will assume charge as the Chief Executive Officer of Mason & Summers.

Former CEO of Nortel joins Wipro board
William Arthur Owens, former CEO & Vice- Chairman of Nortel, is joining Wipro’s Board of Directors. Prior to joining Nortel in 2004, he was CEO and Chairman of Teledesic.

New Senior Vice- President for Satyam Computers
Satyam computer services have announced the appointment of Dr. Robert ‘Bob’ Baginski as Senior Vice-President, Global Marketing and Communications.

Global HR Head for Virtusa
Virtusa Corporation has announced the appointment of T N Hari as Vice- President and Global Head of Human Resources. Hari will be a part of the executive team and will be based in Hyderabad. Prior to joining Virtusa, Hari served for nearly four years at IBM – Daksh.

Convergys appoints Vice – President
Convergys Corporation has appointed Paresh Shah as the Vice - President and General Manager of Convergys information management operations systems in Hyderabad. Prior to this Mr. Shah was the Vice - President (Sales) at Lucent Technologies.

LG’s President to lead SE Asia, Australia operations
LGEIL Managing Director, K.R. Kim who was recently promoted as the President of the LG Electronics, South – West Asia Company has been further elevated. Mr. Kim will now be responsible for overall functioning of Asia and Australia.

Yes Bank appoints Group President
Sunil Gulati has been appointed as the Group President and Head of Risk Management and Corporate Development Teams. Mr. Gulati has 20 years of experience in diverse roles of wholesale banking and corporate finance.

Consumer Banking Head for ABN AMRO
ABN AMRO Bank has announced the appointment of Mr. Sumant Kathpalia as the Head of its Consumer Banking Business in India. In its new role he will be responsible for the retail banking business. He has over 18 years experience in the industry.

VP Marketing and Sales for Hero Honda
Hero Honda motors has announced the appointment of Anil Dua, who was Gillette’s Regional Business Director (Customer Development) as its Vice - President (Marketing & Sales).

New Country Head for Carrier India
Zubin Lara has taken over as the Country Head of Carrier India. He is taking over the responsibility from Vivek Kulkarni who is moving back to the US. At UTC, the parent company of Carrier, he is expected to assume a bigger responsibility.

3i appoints Head- Private Equity fund
3i has appointed Akshaya Bhargava to Head the Global Business Process Outsourcing market.

Jet airways appoints COO
Former worldwide Sales Director of British Airways Del Moss has been appointed as the COO of Jet Airways.

COO for Patni
Mrinal Sattawala has been appointed as the COO of the company. He will be in- charge of operations of business units of Patni.

CEO for Brics Commodities
Mr. Ramaswamy Iyer has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer for Brics Commodities Country Operations.

RABO India Finance has a New Managing Director
Rajesh Srivastava is the new Managing Director & Head - Corporate Commercial Banking .

New CEO for Lucent
Lucent technologies have appointed Vivek Mohan as President & Chief Executive Officer of Lucent India. Previously Mohan was a senior leader with Lucent supply chain networks organization.

Coca Cola repatriating Indians from overseas positions
Sumanta Datta, the current Brand Director of Coca Cola -China, will be joining Coca Cola- India, as Region Vice -President (North Operations) from June.