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Deutsche Bank’s client management head
Mumbai: Akbar Poonawala is the new head of global client management group
of Deutsche Bank. The group will function within the corporate trust and agency services
of the bank.
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Rajeev Razdan joins Birlasoft
New Delhi: Rajeev Razdan has been appointed vice-president of
Birlasoft’s UK operations. Prior to this assignment, Mr Razdan has been business
manager of NIIT, Europe.
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Murray is Indo-American
Society head
Mumbai: Kevin A Murray, country risk manager of Citibank has been elected
president of Indo-American Society for the period beginning 1 September. Mr Murray has
been with the bank’s New York office where he was handling special projects for
emerging markets.
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Amazon.com founder is
Time’s man of the year
New York: Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, has been named as Time
magazine’s "Man of the year". The magazine said Bozos is a person who not
only changed the way we do things but helped pave the way for the future. Reacting to the
news about his selection, 35-year-old Mr Bezos said it is an incredible and humbling
honour. Mr Bezos, started Amazon.com in 1995 out of a rented two-bedroom home in the
Seattle suburb of Bellevue with an initial investment of $300,00, a garage converted into
a warehouse, three Sun workstations and 30 customers. Four years later, the company has a
total of 13.1 million customers and is at the forefront of on-line retailing which is
expected to attract $8 billion worth of sales in 1999.
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WWW creator wins grant
New York: Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the world wide web, is one of the recipients of
a $100,000 grant from Stargazer Foundation. The Vienna, Virginia-based foundation named Mr
Berners-Lee, currently director of the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Computer Science and Bill Shore, founder and
executive director of Share Our Strength a national anti-hunger Organisation as its first
two recipients for the tax-free grant. The foundation has announced the grant for
"ability of the entrepreneurial spirit to benefit society, worldwide".
Mr Berners-Lee, an Englishman, is credited with opening up
the Internet by creating the web, making it accessible to anyone.
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