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Yogesh Lohiya is new GIC chief
Mumbai:
Yogesh Lohiya has taken charge as the chairman and managing director of General Insurance Corporation of India, effective May 28, 2007 from RK Joshi, who retired on April 30.

Lohiya was earlier General Manager of The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd, according to a press release. Lohiya is a mechanical engineering graduate from the Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, and joined the insurance industry in 1977.
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Bharti reshuffles top deck; brings in new hands
Mumbai:
Bharti Group is seeing some senior-level changes.
The officials exiting the company include Nilanjan Mukherjee and Harshvendra Soin. Mukherjee is joining Reliance Communications (RCOM) as the chief marketing officer (CMO). At Bharti Mukherjee was looking after vital markets, where growth is linked to affordability. Harshvendra Soin is joining AV Birla group's retail operations. While his new designation is not yet clear, he is likely to head the HR function for the new retail arm of the Birlas.

The group director (human resources) at Bharti Daljit Singh is moving to Singapore.

Singh joined Bharti in August 2005 and will complete a two-year stint with the group on July 30 and will move back to Singapore, where he was based.

Bharti has roped in Krish Shankar of Hindustan Lever (HLL) as director-HR at Bharti Airtel. He will look after the HR functions of the company, which is hiring by the dozen as it expands operations and manages a customer base of over 40 million.

In March this year, Bharti Enterprises had introduced its new apex level organisational structure responsible for evaluating new business opportunities, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic alliances for the group.

The group has four lead directors — Bharti Enterprises vice-chairman Rakesh Bharti Mittal; Bharti Enterprises managing director Akhil Gupta; Bharti Enterprises managing director Rajan Bharti Mittal; and Bharti Enterprises director Badri Agarwal.
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