Category: Company Wire

Cyber security solutions company Kaspersky has appointed Dipesh Kaura as general manager, South-Asia. As part of his new role, Kaura will oversee operations across India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives....

Oracle has nominated former Infosys chief executive officer (CEO) Vishal Sikka to the board of directors. Sikka comes with deep expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). In his new role,...

Nokia is planning to appoint its former networks chief Sari Baldauf as chairman, succeeding Risto Siilasmaa. Risto Siilasmaa will be stepping down from the company after eight years. Baldauf, 64, had headed Nokia’s...

Tata Communications has appointed Amur Swaminathan Lakshminarayanan as the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company. As per a regulatory listing, Lakshminarayanan’s appointment shall be...

JDA Software which provides artificial intelligence-based supply chain management solutions, has appointed Umesh Gaur as Managing Director of JDA’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) in India at Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The two CoEs...

Yotta Infrastructure, the Hiranandani Group’s data center arm, has appointed Bhavesh Adhia as the head of alliance and channels. In this role, Adhia will be responsible for leveraging strategic alliances and developing...

NTT Limited has appointed Kiran Bhagwanani as the chief executive officer (CEO) for its India operations. Bhagwanani will focus on ensuring that the company meets its ambitious objectives. He will report to John Lombard, CEO,...

Gautam Anand, chief people officer, for India, South Asia, Bharti Airtel has quit the organisation with immediate effect. He has reportedly quit due to personal reasons. Following this development, the human resource functions...

Bill Barney, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Reliance Communications (RCOM) has resigned from his post. Barney, who is also the chairman and CEO of RCOM’s subsidiary, Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) will now focus on the...

Bharti Enterprises has appointed Rajesh Sud as MD, financial services. He will report to Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder and chairman, Bharti Enterprises. As part of his new responsibilities, Sud will lead the financial services...

Tata Communications has appointed Amur Swaminathan Lakshminarayanan as managing director (MD) and CEO. He takes over Vinod Kumar who resigned from the company recently. Lakshminarayanan is currently president and CEO, Tata...

Realme India has appointed Deepak Nakra as sales head. His appointment comes at a time when Realme is planning to foray into offline trade and set up company-owned stores through foreign direct investment in single brand retail...

OPPO has appointed Sumit Walia as vice-president (VP), product and marketing, for its India operations. In his new role, Walia will focus on localisation in the field of product and marketing. He will also build the OPPO brand...

Chinese telecom gear manufacturer ZTE has appointed Yan Xiao as the new deputy CEO and Rajat Mukarji as chief corporate officer for its Indian operations. Prior to his new role, Xiao was CEO of ZTE’s Myanmar operations....

The Vodafone Group has appointed Vinod Kumar as chief executive officer (CEO) of Vodafone Business. He will take charge from September 2, 2019, and at the same time become a part of the executive committee. He will report to...

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) has given Sushil Kumar, director, human resources and enterprise business, additional charge as chairman and managing director (CMD). He takes over from P.K. Purwar, who has recently been...

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has cleared the appointment of Anshu Prakash as secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DoT). He will replace Aruna Sundararajan, who is retiring on July 31, 2019, after serving for...

Eric Schmidt has resigned from his position as chairman of the board of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. According to the company, he does not intend to seek re-election to the board when his term expires in June 2019, but...

Citrix has appointed Manish Sharma as vice president of partner sales for the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Based out of Singapore, Sharma will be responsible for Citrix’s partner ecosystem in the region and will oversee...

Amazon India’s senior vice president and country head Amit Agarwal has been appointed chairman of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). He takes over from Rajan Anandan, former vice president, Google India and...