Vedanta Resources said it has appointed Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan, the CEO of gold miner AngloGold Ashanti, as its new CEO and a member of the board. He will take over from interim CEO Kuldip Kaura on 31 August 2018. Since 2013, the 53-year-old has been the CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, an emerging market gold producer. Before […]
Aditya Birla Group and Vodafone have announced the list of office bearers who will run the company resulting from the merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular. Balesh Sharma, who is currently Chief Operating Officer of Vodafone India, has been chosen to head the new company, while the existing CEO of Vodafone India and Idea […]
Axis Bank, one of India’s top three private sector banks, called reports of resignation of its two top officials “speculative assertions”. Responding to a notice from the stock exchanges, Axis Bank said: “The bank does not comment on speculative assertions around its internal functioning.” It said it will inform the exchanges of any “material, unpublished […]
Promoters, including Malvinder Singh and Shivinder Singh, saw their combined shareholding in financial services provider Religare Enterprises Ltd come down by 2.16 percentage points due to the invocation of pledges, they said in a regulatory filing. The filing comes in the wake of reports that the company’s board may be reconstituted to give more representation […]
Idea Cellular and Vodafone India will gear their network heavily towards 4G after merger and will also shut down over 60,000 cell sites as part of network optimization, going by the presentation being made by Idea in front of investors. The companies had earlier announced that they would surrender around 6,300 cell sites that are […]
NIT Technologies said third-quarter revenue increased 2.6% sequentially to Rs 756.5 Crores, an increase of 9% on year. Operating Margins expanded 97 bps sequentially to 17.1% as a result of growth in Digital engagements in US and EMEA. Operating profits expanded 8.7% on quarter and 11.4% on year to Rs 129.5 Crores. Net profit improved […]
“I won’t be coming here again, I think,” said Infosys co-founder and chairman Nandan Nilekani at the company’s quarterly results press conference, indicating that he may step down from his role at Infosys sooner rather than later. Nilekani faced several questions from journalists about how long he planned to stay in the role of the […]
Zensar Technologies, the IT services company from the RPG Group, said its chief financial officer Manoj Jaiswal resigned with immediate effect. “He will be relieved from his duties with effect from the closing of business hours on Dec 4,” the company said. It was not clear why the CFO resigned abruptly. Zensar Technologies also said […]
Two crucial factors that swung the decision in favor of hiring Capgemini veteran Salil Parekh as the new CEO of Infosys were his familiarity with working in the IT sector in Bangalore and his overall ‘cultural fit’ with the Indian IT industry, said Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, who heads the committee that spearheaded the search for a […]
Tata Steel has promoted T V Narendran, currently MD for India and South East Asia, as the company’s new CEO and Managing Director. The Board also reappointed Koushik Chatterjee as Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer for a period of 5 years with effect from November 9, 2017, when his present term expires on November […]
Indian promoters are unwilling to give total management control to professional boards and managers, a survey by Assocham has revealed. A majority of the corporate firms have promoters’ holding well over 50 per cent and even those with much lower stake are not willing to bet fully on professionals, found the survey that was based […]
Former Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani, who took over as Chairman of the company to resolve the tension between key shareholders and the management, said he did not join the IT company to run it. He said he was not in the company to step into the shoes of Vishal Sikka, the CEO who resigned last […]
Infosys Ltd director board today came out strongly in support of ex-CEO Vishal Sikka and issued a strong rebuttal to a letter released by Infosys founder Narayana Murthy. Earlier in the day, Murthy was scathing in his review of the actions taken by the company and its board in addressing concerns of poor accountability and […]
Infosys co-chairman Ravi Venkatesan today assured investors and employees of Infosys that the changes brought about by Vishal Sikka will not be rolled back or lost with the exit of the CEO. Venkatesan was speaking at the press conference organized by the company to address worries about the resignation of the CEO. He also said […]
Vishal Sikka, the SAP-veteran who took over as the CEO of Infosys four years ago, has put in his papers after continuing differences of opinion with some of the key shareholders. He will, however, continue as the vice chairman of the company. He also wrote a long letter to the employees of explaining his reasons […]
Infosys said it appointed Unilever veteran D Sundaram as an independent director. He is currently the Vice Chairman and MD of TVS Capital Funds Ltd. “He joined Unilever Group in 1975 and served in various leadership capacities in Unilever Group in a career spanning over 34 years, including Director of Finance & IT, and Vice […]
Larsen & Toubro Deputy Managing Director and President S.N. Subrahmanyan has taken over as CEO and Managing Director with effect from today. He has been on the company’s board since 2011 and was named the new CEO in April this year. At the meeting on April 7, 2017, the company’s director board had also requested […]
E-commerce firm Snapdeal said it has appointed former housing.com CEO Jason Kothari as the Chief Executive Officer of its wallet service FreeCharge at a time when competition in the mobile payments space is at an all-time high. Contrary to rumors of a cash crunch, Snapdeal said it will invest an additional $20 million in Freecharge. […]
After TCS’ Chandrasekaran, it is the turn of Wipro’s former CEO and current executive vice chairman TK Kurien to retire. He was expected to step down in March. He will step down at the end of this month, a year after he was moved out of the CEO position. “TK and Abid have worked together […]
Tata Consultancy Services said it made two appointments in the wake of the departure of Chief Executive officer N Chandrasekaran: N. Ganapathy Subramaniam, elder brother of outgoing CEO Chandrasekaran, has been appointed as the chief operating officer, and former chief financial officer Rajesh Gopinathan has been elevated to the position of CEO. Former CEO Chandrasekaran has […]
