Jayaraman gets senior post in Colgate
Mumbai: Jay Jayaraman, managing director of Colgate Palmolive India Ltd, has been promoted as vice president of Colgate's Global Business Development Group in New York. He is expected to take charge on 1 January 2000.

Derrick Samuel, currently vice president and managing director of Colgate's South Pacific operations, will be the new managing director of Colgate-Palmolive India. His appointment takes effect from 1 September. He will also hold charge as vice president and managing director of Colgate South Asia.
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Srinivasan is MD of Centurion Bank
Mumbai: V.S. Srinivasan is the new managing director of Centurion Bank.

Prior to his appointment, Srinivasan has been vice chairman of the 20^th Century Finance Corporation. He has been actively involved in the bank ever since its inception and has served on its executive committee.

The bank had taken assets worth Rs 800 crore from the 20^th Century Finance Corporation under an agreement.
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Rono Dutta is president of United Airlines
San Francisco: The world's largest airline, UAL Corporation and United Airlines, has an India-born as president.

Rono Dutta, an Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur mechanical engineering graduate, has been selected as president of UAL. Dutta, like another Indian, Rakesh Gangwal, who has been selected to head US Airways, the sixth largest airline in the US, hails from Calcutta.

Currently senior vice president of the planning division of the airline, Dutta will assume charge of the airline on 13 July. He will work under James Goodwin, who will hold the post of chairman and chief executive officer.

Dutta and Gangwal have worked together at management consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton in Chicago and also at United Airlines.
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