people > in the news In the news Sanjay Reddy promoted to COO, Zee 04 July 2009 Omnicom appoints Tim Lowe as CEO 03 July 2009 Japan's Yukiya Amano to succeed el Baradei at the IAEA 03 July 2009 Yahoo! appoints Penny Baldwin Senior Vice President, global integrated marketing and brand management 02 July 2009 Mahesh Narayanan joins AdMob 02 July 2009 Conde Nast appoints James Bilefield as president, new media division 02 July 2009 Manish Agarwal joins UTV New Media Ventures 02 July 2009 Koichi Takahara (DoCoMo Inter-Touch Ltd) 02 July 2009 Sandeep Jain joins Morgan Stanley’s Mumbai division 01 July 2009 Ajit Thakur to head GEC at Balaji 01 July 2009 Sanjay Raina to join MEASAT Broadcast Network System 01 July 2009 Nirupama Rao to succeed Menon as country’s next foreign secretary 30 June 2009 US government seeks 150-year sentence for Madoff 29 June 2009 Gaurav Tandon to join Navia Asia 29 June 2009 Durga Raghunath takes charge as editor Wall Street Journal India 29 June 2009 B K Birla bequeaths empire to Kumar Mangalam, daughters 27 June 2009 India industry welcomes Nilekani as head of identification number project 26 June 2009 King of Pop Michael Jackson passes away 26 June 2009 Nandan Nilekani quits Infosys to head government agency 25 June 2009 Dick Cheney inks $2 million deal for memoirs 25 June 2009 Senior management moves at Castrol India 25 June 2009 Steve Jobs gets new liver, but at who’s cost? 25 June 2009 BP selects Ericsson CEO as new chairman 25 June 2009 Rajiv Hiranandani, Kunal Bajaj appointed as co-chairs, MMA 24 June 2009 R. Srinivasan is new MD of HAL’s Helicopter Complex 23 June 2009 MasterCard hires Ajay Banga as president and COO 22 June 2009 US billionaire Stanford charged with $7-billion fraud 20 June 2009 Ramki Sundaram exits Kingfisher Airlines 20 June 2009 Andy Bhatt transferred to BBDO New York as head of interactive production 20 June 2009 Former IPA president becomes chair of ASA funding body 20 June 2009 Meera Sharath appointed managing director of WPP's digita arm, Syzygy 19 June 2009 Colin Mitchell, John Shaw appointed joint worldwide planning director at Ogilvy & Mather 19 June 2009 Wipro's Premji receives Global Vision award from USIBC 19 June 2009 Christopher Graves appointed global CEO, Ogilvy Public Relations Asia 18 June 2009 Luke Bradley Jones 17 June 2009 Yash Khanna joins CMCG India as president 17 June 2009 Leo Burnett Mumbai brings in a new ECD 17 June 2009 Ajay Vidyasagar joins Sun TV as COO 17 June 2009 Two senior changes at Ogilvy PR, Asia Pacific 13 June 2009 Indian Express appoints V Natrajan as VP 13 June 2009 Leji Koshy quits Big Cinema, joins Sadhna News 12 June 2009 Raj Bhattacharya appointed as business head at Selvel-One 12 June 2009 Nuclear scientist goes missing at Kaiga, search on 11 June 2009 Jon Rubinstein to lead Palm 11 June 2009 Anthony Edwards appointed as communications planning director, Euro RSCG 11 June 2009 Yannick Colaco promoted to COO, Nimbus Sport 11 June 2009 Ashit Kukian promoted, president, sales, Radio City 11 June 2009 Nandan Nilekani to host new series on CNBC-TV18 10 June 2009 Former SEBI and LIC chairman, G N Bajpai, joins US advisory group's board 10 June 2009 Vikram Channa promoted to vice-president Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific 10 June 2009 Time Warner promotes Mark D'Arcy to president and COO 10 June 2009 Former AT&T CEO Edward E Whitacre Jr to take over as GM chairman 10 June 2009 S Yesudas to head Vizeum India 09 June 2009 Saumya Chattopadhyay appointed planning head Rediffusion - Y&R, Mumbai 09 June 2009 Piyush Pandey to head Craft jury at Spikes Asia Festival 09 June 2009 Vice admiral NK Verma to be next chief of naval staff 09 June 2009 Ethnic Indian, Peter Varghese, to be new Australian high commissioner 08 June 2009 Web guru Rajeev Motwani dies in drowning accident 08 June 2009 Saurabh Dasgupta to judge Globes Awards 2009 08 June 2009 Amod Dani, Vikram Pandey become creative directors at Leo Burnett 06 June 2009 Anil Srivatsa quits Meow FM 06 June 2009 Pillai is new home secretary; Khullar moves to commerce 06 June 2009 Jobs to be back at Apple helm; but may miss WWDC 06 June 2009 Ahluwalia reappointed deputy chairman of planning commission 05 June 2009 Angelina Jolie tops Forbes Celebrity 100 05 June 2009 A Mathew George appointed sales head, Big FM 05 June 2009 Grady Burnett of Google AdWords to join Facebook 05 June 2009 Shubha George promoted COO, MEC South Asia 05 June 2009 Prasana Krishnan promoted to COO, Neo Sports Broadcast 05 June 2009 Hatim Kantawalla appointed group technology editor for Network18 04 June 2009 Tata Capital Limited appoints Mr. Jamshed Daboo as Head - National Sales and Service Organization 04 June 2009 Standard & Poor's appoints Suzanne Smith to head South and Southeast Asia ratings analytics 03 June 2009 PNB's K C Chakrabarty named as RBI deputy governor 03 June 2009 Air Chief Marshal PV Naik takes over as new IAF chief 02 June 2009 Air Marshal AK Gogoi is new DG Operations, IAF 02 June 2009 Air Marshal PK Barbora takes charge as vice chief of the IAF 02 June 2009 Air Marshal NAK Browne is Western Air Command chief 02 June 2009 SBI Mutual Fund appoints R Srinivasan as senior fund manager, equity 02 June 2009 Literary India grieves as Kamala Das passes away 01 June 2009 Prakash Telang to be new Tata Motors MD, Ravi Kant to be non-executive vice chairman 29 May 2009 Author, UN-diplomat Tharoor takes charge as mos external affairs 29 May 2009 Timothy J. Roemer nominated as US ambassador to India 28 May 2009 N Chandrasekaran to take over from Ramadorai at TCS 27 May 2009 Breaking convention, Mamata takes charge of railway ministry from Kolkata 27 May 2009 Ex-shuttle commander Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden nominated to head NASA 25 May 2009 Former S Korean president Roh Moo-hyun falls to death 23 May 2009 Amitabh Bachchan now also in Bollywood Zone at Madame Tussauds New York 22 May 2009 Aruna Tadanki joins Yahoo! India as MD 21 May 2009 Vaasu Gavarasana to head Dentsu Communications' Bengaluru operations 21 May 2009 Ex-Telstra chief Sol Trujillo exits Australia with no plans to return 21 May 2009 Mukherjee's long walk as finance minister from 1984 20 May 2009 Priya Jadhav joins Geometric as VP, Finance 19 May 2009 Leroy Alvares becomes CEO of Wunderman India 19 May 2009 US Supreme Court to hear appeal of jailed media mogul Conrad Black 19 May 2009 Former US envoy to spearhead KKR’s buyout operations in Middle East 19 May 2009 IAMAI makes fresh appointments 18 May 2009 BP Solar CEO Reyad Fezzani takes over as chairman of Tata BP Solar Shyamal Gupta retires 15 May 2009 Andrew Heller, promoted to vice-chairman TBS/Management changes at TBS 13 May 2009 Digitas appoints Sunita Prakash 13 May 2009 Euro RSCG announces new APAC strategic council 13 May 2009 Dilip Marathe joins Rediffusion – Y&R 13 May 2009 Ashok Vidyasagar, senior VP Bates 141, quits 13 May 2009 Ashok Chawla appointed finance secretary 12 May 2009 Publicis Worldwide promotes COO Richard Pinder 12 May 2009 V Vaidyanathan appointed ICICI Prudential Life’s new MD and CEO 11 May 2009 Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar Shaw to receive Nikkei Asia Prize 11 May 2009 John Rowley appointed as President for Lloyd’s Register Asia 11 May 2009 Ajay Verma joins eBus as chief executive 11 May 2009 Ramanuj Shastry to join Saatchi & Saatchi 11 May 2009 Wipro’s Premji tells US to avoid protectionism 08 May 2009 David Thodey to replace Sol Trujillo as Telstra CEO 08 May 2009 Investor magazine lists Nooyi, Ayer, D'Souza among best CEOs in US 07 May 2009 Finance Asia ranks HDFC Bank's Aditya Puri India's best CEO 07 May 2009 Development Credit Bank appoints StanChart's Murali Natrajan as MD and CEO 06 May 2009 Infosys inducts ICICI’s K V Kamath on board 05 May 2009 ANZ CEO quits in surprise move 05 May 2009 Rakesh Mohan to step down as RBI deputy governor; take up assignment at Stanford 04 May 2009 Western Union Financial Services appoints Kiran Shetty as the country director 04 May 2009 D1-BP Fuel Crops appoints its Asia Pacific MD Jim van Drunen Littel as MD for India 04 May 2009 Arvind Jadhav is new CMD of Air India 04 May 2009 Girish Shah nominated to CMO Council Worldwide’s Asia Pacific Advisory Council 04 May 2009 Sanjoy Ghosh quits Dainik Jagran to float NGO 30 April 2009 R Seshadri re-elected as president of Ad club Madras 30 April 2009 Subramanian joins O&M 30 April 2009 Ajay Vidyasagar may join Sun TV 30 April 2009 Anil Ambani copter sabotage case gets murkier 29 April 2009 French bank Societe Generale's chairman resigns 29 April 2009 Kashkari to quit as head of US bank rescue programme: report 29 April 2009 Yash Khanna quits Star TV 29 April 2009 Top British honour for TCS CEO Ramadorai 28 April 2009 Bharath Bhushan named interim CMD of Air India 25 April 2009 Yunus's Grameen Bank lends over $1.5 million to New York's poor 23 April 2009 Yahoo hires Jeff Russakow as senior VP 23 April 2009 Raju brothers bail decision on Saturday 23 April 2009 Freddie Mac acting CFO David Kellermann found dead 22 April 2009 Sourabh Mishra quits TBWA India 22 April 2009 Sameer Desai quits Design Sutra 22 April 2009 Mudra Connext appoints Pradeep Ramakrishnan as VP 22 April 2009 Bright recovery prospects for Stephen Hawking from current illness 22 April 2009 Nayak leaves behind fine record at Axis Bank 21 April 2009 Mulye takes over as CEO & MD of ICICI Venture 21 April 2009 Physicist Stephen Hawking rushed to hospital with respiratory ailment 20 April 2009 Raymond appoints S Raghunathan as president finance 20 April 2009 Nandini Nair appointed group creative director TBWA India 20 April 2009 Saying it with the foot 17 April 2009 HSBC recasts India top brass; Kidwai named group head 17 April 2009 Daimler CFO, Bodo Uebber is new EADS chairman 16 April 2009 Manjiri Kamat is now general manager of Mediaedge:cia (MEC) 16 April 2009 Suyesh Shankar returns to India as national strategy director, Starcom IP 15 April 2009 Kampani faces arrest in Nagarjuna Finance scam as SC quashes petition 13 April 2009 Sanjib Dey promoted to president, Saatchi & Saatchi 13 April 2009 DBS chief executive Richard Stanley dies of cancer 11 April 2009 Airtel marketing head Sanjay Gupta joins Star India as COO 08 April 2009 After Bush and Jiabao, Chidambaram gets the boot 08 April 2009 Network Advertising Initiative appoints Charles Curran 07 April 2009 Sandeep Goel joins Mudra Connext as VP 07 April 2009 Pradeep Guha becomes part of advisory board of Komli Media 06 April 2009 SpiceJet appoints GoAir’s G P Gupta as administrative chief 04 April 2009 Genpact’s Pramod Bhasin to be new NASSCOM chief 03 April 2009 Ashok Nayak takes over as chairman at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd 01 April 2009 German rail chief resigns over snooping scandal 30 March 2009 White people with blue eyes caused the credit crunch: Brazilian President 28 March 2009 Sunil Mittal joins Carnegie Endowment’s board of trustees 28 March 2009 Venu Srinivasan is CII's new president, Hari S Bhartia becomes VP 27 March 2009 Air Deccan chief Gopinath joins LS poll fray 27 March 2009 Former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi becomes first repeat space tourist 27 March 2009 Walter Vieira wins Indy’s lifetime achievement award 26 March 2009 Veteran communicator Roger Pereira appointed global vice chairman of PR firm Edelman, Robert Holdheim to be India head 26 March 2009 Volkswagen appoints Neeraj Garg director, for passenger cars division 25 March 2009 Yahoo appoints Elisa Steele as chief marketing officer 25 March 2009 Dr Earl Wood, inventor of G-suits, passes away 24 March 2009 Ajay Vidaysagar quits Star 23 March 2009 Air Marshal PV Naik to take over as new IAF chief 23 March 2009 ABN Amro India chief to contest LS poll 21 March 2009 BrahMos chief, Dr AS Pillai, receives international recognition for leadership 20 March 2009 US Navy Admiral James Stavridis to head NATO Command 19 March 2009 Chef Sanjeev Kapoor to launch 24-hour food channel 18 March 2009 Neelam Kapoor named principal director general of PIB 18 March 2009 Google appoints Dennis Woodside as VP, Americas 18 March 2009 India appoints new envoy to Islamabad 16 March 2009 Indian-origin MIT professor A Chandrakasan honoured 16 March 2009 TheStreet’s CEO quits 14 March 2009 Pankaj Chandra appointed as chief lead, BigFlix 14 March 2009 Kaushik Ghosh appointed VP, ad sales at Star Entertainment 14 March 2009 David Mulford rejoins Credit Suisse as international vice chairman 13 March 2009 Sony CTO Mats Lindoff to quit 13 March 2009 NYSE Euronext appoints Ronald Kent executive vice president 13 March 2009 Peter Liquori quits Fox Broadcasting 13 March 2009 Time Warner taps senior Google executive to head AOL 13 March 2009 TV journalist Zaidi gets 3 years for ‘booting’ Bush 13 March 2009 Peter and Indrani Mukerjea to quit INX Media 12 March 2009 Bill Gates still the world’s richest as crisis erodes rankings of others 12 March 2009 CEO Manoj Kohli sells 1.23 lakh Bharti Airtel shares 12 March 2009 Procter & Gamble president Susan Arnold to step down 09 March 2009 US national cyber security chief resigns over turf battle 09 March 2009 Sanjay Gupta pulls out of US Surgeon General race 07 March 2009 I bid for Gandhi articles on my own: Mallya 06 March 2009 Vivek Kundra to head Obama's technology mission 06 March 2009 Vijay Mallya tops the bid for Gandhi's items at $2.1 million 06 March 2009 Bob Gamgort, president of food giant Mars, resigns 28 February 2009 Shalini Dam selected as jury member for AdFest 2009 28 February 2009 Chipmaker NVIDIA appoints new CFO 28 February 2009 Sameer Sainani becomes Radio Mirchi's national sales head 28 February 2009 Tata Steel names Kirby Adams as Corus CEO; Nerukar appointed ED 27 February 2009 Tendulkar, Bhupati among 14 Indian WEF young global leaders 27 February 2009 Sir Richard Branson to take Virgin around the globe in 8 days 26 February 2009 Syngenta board proposes Stefan Borgas to become new Director 26 February 2009 Citi India Appoints Nikhil Nagle as Head of Equities 26 February 2009 Business award for Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan 26 February 2009 Laqshya CEO Soumitra Bhattacharyya quits 26 February 2009 Ashish Limaye becomes Starcom MediaVest Group general manager - marketing 26 February 2009 Jairam Ramesh resigns as minister to join poll campaign 25 February 2009 Peter Chernin to quit News Corporation 25 February 2009 Bernanke draws grim picture of economy 25 February 2009 Steven Rattner to oversee US auto industry restructuring 25 February 2009 Honda names new president and CEO, struggles to find buyer for F1 racing team 24 February 2009 Bhavdeep Singh becomes CEO of Fortis 24 February 2009 S R Ramanujam appointed CEO of CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Ltd 23 February 2009 Kunal Dasgupta quits SET 21 February 2009 Clinton owns up regulatory lapses, asks Obama to give America hope now 21 February 2009 Rahul Welde named chairman, WFA's Asia-Pacific Media & Marketing Network 21 February 2009 Maxus appoints Sidharth Parashar national trading head 19 February 2009 'Acquisition man' Rosling quits Tata Sons 17 February 2009 Japan’s finance minister quits as Japan faces slump 17 February 2009 Patni appoints Mike Reynolds as VP financial services in EMEA 17 February 2009 Prem Kamath becomes general manager, marketing, Channel V 17 February 2009 Barista appoints Sanjay Coutinho as COO 17 February 2009 Sushma Jhaveri joins Carat India 17 February 2009 Philippe Berthelot promoted to global business director for Lipton tea account 16 February 2009 Prasson Joshi to judge Titanium and Integrated Lions category at Cannes 16 February 2009 Parade CEO Anderson retires 16 February 2009 Lois Jacobs becomes global chief executive officer at WPP B to D Group's 16 February 2009 Narayana Murthy appointed IT adviser to Sri Lankan president 14 February 2009 Dinesh Keskar to head Boeing India 14 February 2009 Ambani, Premji among business leaders to meet Obama 13 February 2009 Queen Elizabeth II to unveil revamped royal website 13 February 2009 Buffett investment fails to save Swiss Re CEO’s job 12 February 2009 Subho Sengupta joins Saatchi & Saatchi 12 February 2009 ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair presented Manorma News award 11 February 2009 Narayan Murthy to head Nascom's new governance and ethics committee 11 February 2009 Milind Dabke quits Percept Pictures 11 February 2009 Vaybhav Singh and Swami Anand Tirth to join Dhar & Hoon 11 February 2009 Zee Group's G Ramprasad joins Tata Teleservices as CEO 11 February 2009 AeroIndia 2009: Global downturn is a global opportunity 10 February 2009 Promotion Marketing Awards of Asia 2009 Open for Entries 10 February 2009 comScore appoints Mike Read 10 February 2009 Corus chairman quits Rio Tinto's board; rules out joining it 09 February 2009 Rajmohan Gandhi elected president of Initiatives of Change International 09 February 2009 Nielsen Online launches services in India; appoints Karthik Nagarajan 09 February 2009 Titus Upputuru plans to join Dentsu India 09 February 2009 Temasek CEO to quit 07 February 2009 H P Singhania to take over as FICCI president 07 February 2009 Asim Ghosh to quit as Vodafone CEO 07 February 2009 New Satyam CEO A S Murthy solicits staff help to tide over crisis 07 February 2009 Marten Pieters to take over as chief executive, Vodafone Essar 07 February 2009 Karnik appointed new Satyam chairman 06 February 2009 GlaxoSmithKline plc announces board changes 04 February 2009 Rohit Misra is president, Rediffusion Y&R 04 February 2009 Philips appoints Rajeev Chopra 04 February 2009 Yahoo executive Coleman joins AOL 04 February 2009 Wen follows Bush; escapes shoe missile at Cambridge 03 February 2009 Sunil Manocha quits Neo Sports to join Live Media 03 February 2009 Nandini Sethuraman to head marketing at Marks & Spencer India 02 February 2009 David King is chief executive at Time Out Group 31 January 2009 Arvind Mohan appointed on Global Planning Board, Young & Rubicam 31 January 2009 Chandradeep Mitra quits Mudra Max 31 January 2009 M A Alagappan conferred honorary doctorate by Birmingham City University 29 January 2009 Shivkumar Menon quits Zoom 29 January 2009 Jishnu Sen promoted to COO at Grey 29 January 2009 Fraud costs Satyam's Raju his World Economic Forum chair 28 January 2009 Pallav Moitra resigns from Paprika Media 28 January 2009 Former president R Venkataraman passes away 27 January 2009 eBay marketer Minal Shah quits 27 January 2009 Mithun Roy joins TBWA in Mumbai 24 January 2009 JWT's Dias, Leo burnett's Padhi set up new venture Roots India 24 January 2009 Ogilvy names John Seifert as North America region chairman 23 January 2009 Kirby Adams to succeed Philippe Varin as Corus CEO 23 January 2009 Former Merrill boss Thain ousted from Bank of America amid losses 23 January 2009 Sanjay Baweja appointed CFO, Tata Communications 20 January 2009 Founder's grandson Akio Toyoda to head Toyota 20 January 2009 ABP appoints Prosenjit Datta as editor, Businessworld 20 January 2009 Brijesh Jacob to join White Canvas 19 January 2009 Is Apple just Steve's job? 16 January 2009 Steve Jobs' health worries Apple investors 16 January 2009 M A Parthasarathy, Alok Sinha join Mindshare as partners 15 January 2009 Sandeep Vij of Mudra promoted to Chief Knowledge Officer 15 January 2009 Yahoo has new CEO, Carol Bartz 14 January 2009 The Washington Post appoints Elizabeth Spayd and Raju Narisetti as managing editors 14 January 2009 Saatchi & Saatchi appoints Pinaki Bhattacharya as senior VP, planning 14 January 2009 Ramswaroop Gopalan to head, digital services at Rediffusion Y&R 13 January 2009 MMA appoints Mike Wehrs as president and CEO 13 January 2009 Gerry Human is now worldwide executive creative director, Unilever 10 January 2009 IRI confers Democracy’s Hero award on Pakistan’s information minister Sherry Rehman 08 January 2009 R C Sinha quits as Maytas Infra chairman 08 January 2009 Farid Kuresha joins Zee Group's OOH Company 08 January 2009 Russell Barrett joins Bates 141 as executive creative director 08 January 2009 Satyam: Is Raju telling the truth even now? 07 January 2009 Ram Mynampati takes over as interim CEO of Satyam 07 January 2009 German billionaire Merckle commits suicide over financial mess 07 January 2009 Mohan Krishnan to head Consumer Research and SRI IMRB North 06 January 2009 Obama's cabinet choice meets first casualty 06 January 2009 Another accused in NFL fraud held; search on for Kampani 05 January 2009 N Balachandar appointed chief human resources officer Strides Arcolabs 05 January 2009 K V Sridhar to be judge at New York Festivals 2009 05 January 2009 Ravi Uppal is new MD, CEO, L&T Power 02 January 2009 Dr Reddy's elevates Saumen Chakraborty as president, corporate and global generics, Umang Vohra as new CFO 02 January 2009 Samrat Dasgupta promoted to regional creative director at Lowe 01 January 2009 Nikon to double India growth in 2009 26 December 2008 Lowe Lintas makes changes in senior management 23 December 2008 Lloyd Mathias joins Tata Teleservices as marketing chief 23 December 2008 Patni appoints Jeya Kumar as CEO 19 December 2008 K V Kamath to be non-executive chairman of ICICI Bank 19 December 2008 Watergate's Deep Throat slips away 19 December 2008 Chanda Kochhar to succeed K V Kamath as CEO, ICICI Bank 19 December 2008 Obama chooses Mary Schapiro as first woman SEC chairman 18 December 2008 Motorola CEOs take pay cuts; relinquish bonus 18 December 2008 Maersk appoints Rizwan Soomar MD, for India & Sri Lanka 18 December 2008 Time names Obama as “Person of the Year” 18 December 2008 Online gambling tycoon nailed by DoJ 17 December 2008 Llyod Mathias joins Tata Teleservices 16 December 2008 Bush discovers WMD in Baghdad — no consolation prize, though 16 December 2008 Deepak Sandhu becomes media adviser to prime minister 13 December 2008 Microsoft's global ad sales head to leave 13 December 2008 Nissan Motors announces new management appointments 12 December 2008 Bewkes replaces Parsons as Time Warner chairman 12 December 2008 Divakar Kaza rejoins Lupin as president, HR 12 December 2008 Bhupendra Mathur, senior VP, IMRB International, passes away 11 December 2008 Vodafone's Arun Sarin could be new Yahoo CEO: Report 10 December 2008 Illinios governor Blagojevich arrested by federal authorities on corruption charges 10 December 2008 No future for the Big Three: Nobel economics laureate Krugman 08 December 2008 Rajesh Chaddha appointed as director-production Endemol India 08 December 2008 Ashok Chavan chosen new Maharashtra chief minister 04 December 2008 Barack Obama’s US citizenship challenged 04 December 2008 Anand Narasimha quits Bates 141, is now a brand consultant 04 December 2008 Nikhil Nehru becomes chairmain, Results International Group (RIG) 04 December 2008 Partho Dasgupta and Vishakha Singh quit Future Media to launch new venture 03 December 2008 Janez Jansa, former Slovenian PM tipped to be new NATO chief 02 December 2008 Nitin Alawadhi joins TOI 02 December 2008 Hillary takes over at State, Gates continues at Defence 02 December 2008 Xerox India appopints Mark Petit as executive director, Xerox Global services 01 December 2008 Shinde likely to succeed Deshmukh as Maharashtra CM 01 December 2008 Maharashtra deputy CM RR Patil makes his exit 01 December 2008 Security shuffle: A change of rooms for Chidambaram 01 December 2008 Honeywell appoints Anil Gupta as India president 28 November 2008 Aegis CEO Robert Lerwill steps down 28 November 2008 Tham Khai Meng becomes global creative chief and chairman of O&M's WW Creative Council 28 November 2008 Volcker to head Obama’s economic advisory committee 27 November 2008 Hormuzd Masani elected president of Asia Pacific Audit Bureaux of Circulations 26 November 2008 Mohit Anand joins Belkin Asia Pacific 25 November 2008 P V Shyam is distribution head BBC South Asia 25 November 2008 Microsoft appoints Asia-based head of Ad operations 24 November 2008 Jatin Das selected Creativity & Business International Network ambassador 22 November 2008 Wal-Mart replaces H Lee Scott, appoints Mike Duke as new CEO 22 November 2008 Rajiv Dhar quits as Tata Communications CFO 21 November 2008 Citi's South Asia chief Sanjay Nayar quits, moves to KKR 21 November 2008 Jamshed J Irani receives `Lifetime Achievement Award' 19 November 2008 Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban counters SEC charges on his web site 19 November 2008 Jyotsna Chauhan becomes COO (North), IBD India 19 November 2008 Amba Preetham Parigi receives prestigious award 18 November 2008 Rajdeep Sardesai elected president of Editor's Guild of India 18 November 2008 Founder Jerry Yang exits CEO's position at Yahoo! 18 November 2008 Debjyoti Datta appointed general mangaer, OOH Media 17 November 2008 Y V Reddy nominated to UN task force 15 November 2008 Forbes' Top 40 richest Indians 13 November 2008 ISRO chairman,G Madhavan Nair, selected for KR Narayanan award 12 November 2008 Endemol appoints MDs in South Africa 11 November 2008 Siddhartha Singh joins Rediffusion Y&R design unit 11 November 2008 Manas Mishra appointed executive vice president and national head, Mudra Connext 11 November 2008 Neena Raut becomes creative head, Endemol India 11 November 2008 Changes at NDTV India - Anindo Chakravarty promoted to Managing Editor, NDTV India 11 November 2008 Prem Mehta joins UTV 08 November 2008 Anil Thomas joins McCann Erickson Bengaluru 08 November 2008 Olympic boxer Vijender Singh to promote Bajaj Allianz 08 November 2008 Dhoni to promote Dabur Chyawanprash 08 November 2008 M Narendra takes over as ED of Bank of India 07 November 2008 Anu Aga, Nadir Godrej to join Indian Hotels board 07 November 2008 BoB ED Satish Chander Gupta takes over as CMD of United Bank 07 November 2008 Happy with Novelis despite downturn: Kumar Mangalam Birla 07 November 2008 Nitin Suri joins Bates 141 05 November 2008 I M Swaminathan appointed vice-president Times Internet 05 November 2008 Star TV appoints Ben Money as vice-president, international advertising sales research 05 November 2008 Karl Gomes appointed as national creative director, Rediffusion Y&R 04 November 2008 Hemant Sapre joins M&C Saatchi as senior creative director and vice-president 04 November 2008 Raghuram Rajan to advise PM; high-power panel to resolve industry woes 03 November 2008 Paul Skinner to step down as chairman of Rio Tinto 31 October 2008 Tushar Goculdas promoted to marketing director at Adidas 30 October 2008 Manish Ajgaonkar joins Contract as creative director 27 October 2008 Sun loses co-founder and chief scientist Andy Bechtolsheim to startup Arista Networks 27 October 2008 Second-generation space travellers return to Earth 27 October 2008 Srikanth Srinivasamadhavan becomes GM, Unilever, south Asia 25 October 2008 Percept Picture Company hires Rajan Vahi as COO, Preeti Mascarenhas as chief strategy officer 24 October 2008 Bharti Airtel appoints Sunil Tandon as COO mobiles for Maharashtra, Goa 23 October 2008 Bates 141 appoints key persons 23 October 2008 TBWA appoints Rahul Sengupta as national creative director 23 October 2008 Anand Sharma given additional charge of I&B Ministry 21 October 2008 Sanjay Aggarwal takes over as chief executive at SpiceJet 21 October 2008 Ratan Tata donates $50 million to Cornell 21 October 2008 Swasti Bhowmick is new group CFO at Rediffusion-Y&R 20 October 2008 Icahn may sell his yacht `Starfire' for $37.5 million: report 18 October 2008 Peter Harris becomes head of Iris Sponsorship 18 October 2008 V K Chopra elected president Delhi Ad Club 18 October 2008 Bhushan Kumar is senior creative director at Publicis Ambience 17 October 2008 Rajiv Lal becomes CEO of Perspectrum Consultancy 15 October 2008 Shah Rukh Khan to promote Linc pens 15 October 2008 TBWA appoints Ambareesh Chakraborty as head, creative functions 15 October 2008 Nishad Ramachandran will head iContract 15 October 2008 Bombardier Commercial Aircraft appoints new director of sales for India 14 October 2008 Birendra Raj joins Aegis 14 October 2008 Mindshare announces senior level appointments 14 October 2008 US economist Paul Krugman wins Economics Nobel 13 October 2008 Max New York Life appoints Rajesh Sud as CEO and MD, Rajit Mehta as COO 13 October 2008 Buffett pips Gates to become richest in Forbes list 10 October 2008 Former Finnsih president Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Nobel 10 October 2008 French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio wins Nobel prize for literature 10 October 2008 Unisys appoints corporate transformation leader J Edward Coleman as chairman and CEO 08 October 2008 Former Wipro executive Sudip Nandy appointed CEO of Aricent 08 October 2008 Three Japanese origin scientists share physics Nobel 07 October 2008 Kapil Dev becomes brand ambassador for Tata Housing 07 October 2008 Rajeev Raja to join DDB Mudra as creative head 07 October 2008 Wasim Basir appointed as group executive vice-president Rediffusion DYR 07 October 2008 L N Mittal, elected chairman of World Steel Association 06 October 2008 Three scientists share Nobel prize for medicine 06 October 2008 Kaushik Roy becomes associate creative director, Contract 06 October 2008 Bharat Patel elected chairman ISA 06 October 2008 Star TV appoints Daniel Cheung to be new Star TV CEO inTaiwan 04 October 2008 Raj Raman appointed as MD & CEO of Bollywood Corporation 04 October 2008 Fashion designer Narendra Kumar unveils the Sunsilk style range at Lakme Fashion Week 04 October 2008 Abhinav Bindra is brand ambassador for Samsung India 04 October 2008 R S Lodha dies in London 03 October 2008 Peter Mandelson back in UK politics as Brown reshuffles cabinet 03 October 2008 Renuka Ramnath in US Banker's top 25 non-bank finance CEOs 03 October 2008 Authorised Buffett biography shows billionaire investor in new light 01 October 2008 Lt Gen BS Nagal takes over as chief of the Strategic Forces Command 01 October 2008 Jagdish Khattar ropes in Azim Premji in auto marketing venture 01 October 2008 No threat to ICICI Bank’s financial health, asserts Kamath 30 September 2008 Satyam BPO names Vijay Rangineni interim CEO 30 September 2008 Convergys appoints Hanumant Talwar as Vice President of Operations in India 29 September 2008 TR Ramachandran has been appointed as chief executive of Aviva India Life Insurance 29 September 2008 Raj Nayak elected as President of IAA 26 September 2008 Ambani v/s Ambani: Anil sues Mukesh for Rs10,000-crore for defamation 26 September 2008 Michael Toscano appointed AUVSI Executive Director 25 September 2008 Sandeep Pathak is new CEO Bates 141, Mukherjee COO 25 September 2008 Two promotions at TBWAIndia 25 September 2008 Major people movement in R&PM Edelman 25 September 2008 Arun Ramanathan appointed new finance secretary 24 September 2008 Ellen Kullman becomes DuPont's first woman CEO in 206 years 24 September 2008 Alok Aggarwal becomes COO India, Cheil Worldwide and Krishan Kant to head BTL 24 September 2008 BBH finalises three-member core team 24 September 2008 Christophe Cambournac becomes president of Nielsen Asia, Pacific and India 24 September 2008 Dominic Rowell appointed as global marketing director for Lonely Planet 23 September 2008 Dismissed employees beat CEO to death in Greater Noida 22 September 2008 Mint Business Head Rajan Bhalla quits 20 September 2008 Tendulkar becomes brand ambassador for The Royal Bank of Scotland Group 20 September 2008 Madhukar Kamath elected chairman of ASCI 20 September 2008 Tista Sen becomes senior vice-president JWT 20 September 2008 R. Subramaniyam to head Ogilvy Live 20 September 2008 Bharti Group's Hemant Sachdev to head Microsoft India's consumer and online international 19 September 2008 Tata Steel: A decade of transformation 18 September 2008 Sanjay Sinha is the new CEO of DBS Cholamandalam AMC 16 September 2008 M Madhavan Nambiar takes over from Ashok Chawla as new secretary, civil aviation 16 September 2008 Shalini Dam becomes national creative director for Grey Worldwide, India 16 September 2008 Ashok Chawla appointed secretary, department of economic affairs 16 September 2008 Sudhir Sahni becomes president, O&M Delhi 12 September 2008 Indo-UK ‘Business Person of the Year’ award for Jet Airways' Naresh Goyal 12 September 2008 Ramkumar Subramanian appointed VP sales and marketing, AMD India 11 September 2008 Subhiksha’s Subramanian takes over a chairman of Indian Retail Forum from ICICI’s Vaidyanathan 11 September 2008 Israel Army chief Maj Gen Avi Mizrahi arrives on three-day India visit 10 September 2008 Ameer Ismail promoted to executive director, LINOpinion 10 September 2008 Colvyn Harris is chairman of GoaFest 2009 09 September 2008 Ashim Mohanty appointed content head - Future TV 09 September 2008 Creativeland Asia brings Neil Flory on board 09 September 2008 Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award for Lakshmi Mittal 08 September 2008 Ashish Medhekar appointed executive vice-president and head for Everest Brand Solutions 06 September 2008 Credit Suisse appoints Pankaj Kalra, MD, investment banking 05 September 2008 Oracle CEO in lawsuit spotlight over failure to turn over evidence 05 September 2008 Ashok Bhasin joins Wadhawan Food Retail as managing director 05 September 2008 Nestlé's Paul Polman to head Unilever 04 September 2008 Pachauri reelected as chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 04 September 2008 Rajesh Kaul becomes president of MSM Discovery 04 September 2008 Global shoemaker Thomas Bata passes away at 93 02 September 2008 Star News to launch its website soon 02 September 2008 D Subbarao to take over as RBI governor on 5 September 01 September 2008 Kanu Gohain receives another three month extension as DGCA chief 01 September 2008 Raj Kurup appointed on London International Awards jury 01 September 2008 Industrialist, ex MP K K Birla dies at 90 30 August 2008 Navin Shah promoted to CEO, Percept Picture Company 30 August 2008 O&M appoints Rahul Saigal as vice-president, retail 30 August 2008 Forbes ranks Indra Nooyi as the world’s third most powerful woman 29 August 2008 ICICI's Kalpana Morparia to head JP Morgan Chase and Co. in India 29 August 2008 Vijay Rangineni appointed as COO of Satyam BPO 28 August 2008 Roadblocks to Nano would hurt economy badly: Mukesh Ambani 28 August 2008 MindShare Fulcrum appoints Jignesh Ghelani as buying head 28 August 2008 HDFC Bank appoints Sanjeev Patel as head, direct banking channels 27 August 2008 Indian Army's Lt Gen BS Nagal to head Strategic Forces Command 27 August 2008 Ravi Uppal steps down from ABB citing personal reasons 26 August 2008 Jaideep Bose becomes editorial director, Bennett Coleman and Company 26 August 2008 AMD appoints Dasaradha Gude as MD of AMD India 25 August 2008 Forbes names Indian business heiress in list of future billionaires 22 August 2008 Shashwati to head Europe marketing operations for Zee 22 August 2008 Vivek Lakhwara becomes CEO at Lintas' Aaren 22 August 2008 Jayanto Banerjee joins Bates 141 21 August 2008 Sunil Sahjwani returns as chief creative consultant, Times of India 21 August 2008 New senior creative heads for Publicis Ambience 21 August 2008 Mahesh Chauhan becomes Group CEO at Rediffusion 19 August 2008 Pakistani president General Pervez Musharraf resigns 18 August 2008 Daewoo founder again in court; seeks pardon for stashing away assets 13 August 2008 Kari Stolbow is Finnair's new operations chief for Indian sub-continent 12 August 2008 Senior appointments to strengthen Credit Suisse India investment banking 12 August 2008 Bindra becomes first Indian to win individual Olympic gold 11 August 2008 BSE managing director and CEO Rajnikant Patel resigns 08 August 2008 IIT-Bombay to confer honorary doctorate on Ratan Tata 07 August 2008 Andrea Pininfarina, CEO of famed designer firm dies in accident 07 August 2008 New President appointed to lead Sony Ericsson India 06 August 2008 Nalin Mehta appointed CEO, Mahindra Renault 06 August 2008 Nikos Kardassis back at Jet Airways, to head US operations 05 August 2008 Tata Capital appoints Shailendra Bhandari as head, private equity 05 August 2008 Motorola poaches Qualcomm CFO to head loss-making handset division 04 August 2008 Vineet Nayar appointed to the board of directors of HCL Technologies 01 August 2008 Juniper Networks announces ex-Microsoft executive Kevin Johnson as CEO' 24 July 2008 Harvard Professor Dr Tarun Khanna to join GVK BIO board 22 July 2008 IIT Bombay director Ashok Misra resigns to join Intellectual Ventures 21 July 2008 Ruiz steps down as AMD chief executive 18 July 2008 Ex-SpiceJet CEO Siddhanta Sharma moves to IndiGo owner, InterGlobe 18 July 2008 Templeton: Lessons from the dean of contrarians 17 July 2008 Samsung ex-chief gets 3-year suspended jail term 16 July 2008 Porsche India appoints Rod Wallace as its new MD 15 July 2008 SpiceJet CEO, Sidhant Sharma, calls it a day 12 July 2008 Prosecutors seek 7-year jail for Samsung ex-chief 10 July 2008 PerkinElmer appoints its chief scientific officer Daniel Marshak to head China operations 10 July 2008 US Treasury undersecretary Steel is new Wachovia CEO 10 July 2008 Investor philanthropist John Templeton dies at 95 09 July 2008 Ashok Kumar takes over as Secretary in the Department of Pharmaceuticals 07 July 2008 Founder Jim Bidzos takes over Verisign's executive chairman, president and CEO 05 July 2008 HUL appoints Hemant Bakshi as executives director sales as Sanjiv Kakkar leaves for Russian posting 05 July 2008 Robert D Johnson steps down as CEO of Dubai Aerospace 03 July 2008 Patni makes key appointment to meet growing demand for product engineering services in Europe 02 July 2008 Current DGCA given another two-month service extension 02 July 2008 Dishtv appoints Salil Kapoor as the chief operating officer 02 July 2008 Essar Communications appoints Michael Foley as East Africa chief 01 July 2008 David Joyce to head GE Aviation 01 July 2008 L N Mittal joins Goldman Sachs board 30 June 2008 Ex-Nomura Securities chairman, Setsuya Tabuchi, dies at 84 28 June 2008 Naseem Zaidi to succeed Kanu Gohain as Director General of Civil Aviation 28 June 2008 Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw passes away 27 June 2008 Mercer India appoints Padma Ravichander as new managing director 24 June 2008 DishTV appoints Vinay Agarwal as Chief Executive Officer 20 June 2008 BSE chairman Shekhar Datta, director Jamshyd Godrej quit 19 June 2008 Shyam Srinivasan is new Standard Chartered consumer banking head as Murali Natrajan moves to Singapore 19 June 2008 Musharraf, Bush ranked most distrusted global leaders 17 June 2008 Sunil Bharti Mittal presented US-India Business Council's 'Global Vision' award 14 June 2008 Google co-founder Sergey Brin books $5-million seat in space flight for 2011 12 June 2008 Morgan Stanley appoints Anthony Heredia as CEO of Morgan Stanley Investment Management India 10 June 2008 Dr Pramod Deo appointed chairman of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission 10 June 2008 ING Vysya bank appoints Future Brands' MD Santosh Desai on its board 09 June 2008 Microsoft MD Neelam Dhawan quits to take top job at HP India 09 June 2008 Ten held for attack on Loksatta Editor Kumar Ketkar's house 07 June 2008 Suresh Vedula to head business mobility, Nokia India 06 June 2008 HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman steps down after 10 years at the helm 06 June 2008 Dell appoints Sameer Garde as country GM as Rajan Anadan heads for US 05 June 2008 Robert G Sutton appointed India COO, DHL Exel Supply Chain 04 June 2008 Couture King Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71 02 June 2008 Biotechnology pioneer Jean-Paul Clozel named Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008 02 June 2008 ING appoints former SEBI chairman M Damodaran as chief representative and advisor for India 02 June 2008 John Atkinson appointed MD, LexisNexis Butterworths India 02 June 2008 Former Hutch India finance head promoted to group CFO 02 June 2008 KPIT Cummins appoints Dr R A Mashelkar, Lila Poonawala, K V Krishnamurthy as independent directors 30 May 2008 Dr R K Pachauri honoured by EPA 29 May 2008 Arun Sarin to leave Vodafone in July 27 May 2008 Google prepares to boost advertising revenue in India with appointment of new business heads 26 May 2008 The silence has been broken.... 21 May 2008 Lenovo India appoints Dell's Jaivinder Gill as executive director, relational business 21 May 2008 Boeing names John Williams as director, India offset programmes 21 May 2008 GHCL appoints Aloke Banerjee CEO, Rosebys Interiors India Ltd 21 May 2008 Jet Airways appoints Capt Declan Connolly as VP, flight operations 20 May 2008 Ranbaxy's Malvinder Singh among pharma's most influential Indians 19 May 2008 Nitin Kawale Appointed President of Cisco Canada 16 May 2008 Sreekar Reddy joins brand-comm as Hyderabad branch head 16 May 2008 Lynn de Souza to head the newly consolidated Lintas Media Group 15 May 2008 AppLabs appoints Makarand Teje as CEO 14 May 2008 Rajiv Varma appointed as the new president of Inogent Laboratories 14 May 2008 QuEST Manufacturing puts Tim Jones, ex-MD, Rolls Royce India on its board of directors 13 May 2008 Dr Tessy Thomas is first woman scientist to head missile project – new Agni-II version on the anvil 13 May 2008 Avaya appoints Samir Gulve as MD Avaya Indai and VP global communications solutions 13 May 2008 Personal branding: The art of managing your personal brand 07 May 2008 Sandeep Bhalla appointed head of cards business, Citibank India 06 May 2008 Rick Bott appointed as executive director and COO of Cairn India 05 May 2008 Sanjeev Bikhchandani elected Chairman of IAMAI; Ajit Balakrishnan to continue as Chairman Emeritus 02 May 2008 Ford India gets fifth managing director 14 years since inception 02 May 2008 Anoop Singh named IMF director Asia Pacific 02 May 2008 Rondeep Gogoi moves to Mudra, Delhi as creative director 30 April 2008 Dentsu Marcom's new Mumbai head is R Ravi Shankar 30 April 2008 Loek van den Boog appointed executive director of Patni 30 April 2008 Atul Singh, CEO Coca Cola India elected chairman of AMCHAM 26 April 2008 Vijay Mallya appointed chairman, Deccan Aviation 26 April 2008 Lowe Worldwide accepts Prem Mehta’s decision to retire 25 April 2008 Samsung chairman’s resignation may mark the beginning of the end for chaebols 24 April 2008 Lockheed Martin South Asia head named to USIBC board 22 April 2008 CAPA's Kapil Kaul wins SATTE's “ Young Achiever of the Year” award 22 April 2008 Girish Paranjpe, Suresh Senapaty, Suresh Vaswani join Wipro's board 18 April 2008 Vidya Balan new brand ambassador for Toshiba 16 April 2008 Ryan Menezes joins McCann Erickson as executive creative director 14 April 2008 'Man of the Year' award for Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal 11 April 2008 Hugo Chavez promises full cooperation in addressing India’s energy security 10 April 2008 Citi appoints Nalin Nayyar as managing director 09 April 2008 Vice chairman Dileep Choksi quits Deloitte Haskins & Sells 05 April 2008 Sunil Bharti Mittal inducted into Babson Academy of distinguished entrepreneurs 05 April 2008 Maunu von Lueders appointed as new CEO of JetLite 05 April 2008 SAP appoints Léo Apotheker co chief executive alongside Henning Kagermann 03 April 2008 Credit Suisse appoints Sakthi Siva as Asia Pacific equity strategist 03 April 2008 R. Rajamani takes over as Chairman of Shell-MRPL Aviation Joint Venture 03 April 2008 Ex-Yamaha man Tomotaka Ishikawa now aboard Bajaj Auto 02 April 2008 Stock brokers Ketan Parekh, Hiten Dalal, six others get one-year term for role in 1992 securities scam 01 April 2008 Yahoo! India R&D, appoints Microsoft India's Ram Narayanan as vice president, product management 28 March 2008 Former Motorola vice president Mohan Kumar joins Norwest Venture Partners India as executive director 27 March 2008 Raghu Menon, special secretary, MCA, takes over as next Air India chief 26 March 2008 Ford India appoints Nigel E Wark as Executive Director for marketing, sales and service 26 March 2008 Name of Air India's new CMD might be announced Wednesday, 26 March 25 March 2008 PepsiCo CEO Indira Nooyi gets paid $14.7 million in 2007 25 March 2008 Vice Adm N Verma to head eastern naval command, Vice Adm RP Suthan is new vice chief 20 March 2008 Sci fi writer Arthur C Clarke passes away at the age of 90 19 March 2008 Arthur C Clarke: The man who saw tomorrow 19 March 2008 Dr J J lrani inaugurates JSW Steel cold rolling mill complex 18 March 2008 Rolls-Royce chief Ian Robertson to join BMW board 17 March 2008 New board of directors and executive committee for organizers of UAS 2008 15 March 2008 CMC appoints ICICI Bank's Kalpana Morparia as Director 12 March 2008 Citi India's Global Consumer Group announces key executive appointments 11 March 2008 Amitabh Khosla is IATA’s country director for India 05 March 2008 "My job of contributing to the welfare of my fellow man is the great unfinished business." – Joseph Moses Juran 05 March 2008 Narayana Murthy to join HSBC board in London 03 March 2008 Areva T&D inducts Subir Raha on board 01 March 2008 Jagdish Dore new CEO of Matrix Labs 28 February 2008 Dr R Chidambaram invited to join IAEA's commission of eminent persons 25 February 2008 Sunil Mittal awarded JRD Tata corporate leadership award 22 February 2008 Entrepreneurial spirit to transform Indian business: C K Prahalad 21 February 2008 ABB’s Ravi Uppal joins BAE Systems Plc Board as non-executive director 21 February 2008 PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi headed for Washington? 20 February 2008 A time for reflections: Cuba’s Fidel Castro steps aside 19 February 2008 China's Wuxi municipal government appoints NIIT's G Raghavan 'chief consultant' 19 February 2008 R H Patil to succeed C B Bhave as NSDL chairman 15 February 2008 Dr E Sreedharan, five others presented Qimpro quality awards 15 February 2008 C B Bhave to replace Damodaran as SEBI chief 14 February 2008 Mukesh Ambani to co-chair India-Russia CEOs council 13 February 2008 Shah Rukh Khan to come back as quizmaster again 13 February 2008 Ratan Tata, Cisco's John Chambers, BA's Willie Walsh conferred Nasscom's Global Leadership Awards 2008 13 February 2008 US helicopter pioneer, Frank Piasecki, passes away 12 February 2008 Tube Investments: Movements at the top 07 February 2008 China's Lin Yifu named World Bank chief economist 05 February 2008 BrahMos CEO: Design, development work on hypersonic version of BrahMos has begun 04 February 2008 Aeronautical Society of India honours DRDO scientists 04 February 2008 CNBC-Asia names Harish Manwani Asian business leader of year 01 February 2008 Bank of America, Countrywide to name Sambol to new role 01 February 2008 Edgardo Badiali appointed as CEO, GoAir 31 January 2008 Boeing appoints Naveed Hussain as vice president, engineering and technology, India 28 January 2008 BrahMos chief, Dr A Sivathanu Pillai, to be conferred Nayudamma award for 2007 22 January 2008 V S Sampath takes charge as secretary department of chemicals 21 January 2008 Rajat Gupta elected to board of American Airlines, AMR Corp 19 January 2008 Former teenage chess prodigy Bobby Fischer dies 18 January 2008 Alan Greenspan to advise hedge fund Paulson & Co 15 January 2008 Gangopadhyay replaces Shome as adviser to finance minister 15 January 2008 Obituary: Everest hero Sir Edmund Hillary passes away 11 January 2008 A Velliangiri elevated as deputy managing director, TNPL 11 January 2008 Paul de Voijs: India holds good prospects for Volvo 11 January 2008 Tony Blair joins JP Morgan as advisor 10 January 2008 Ratan Tata talks on the making of the Nano 10 January 2008 Etihad Airways appoints Neerja Bhatia as new country manager, India 08 January 2008 Lack of talent, not funds, reason for delay in projects: DRDO chief 05 January 2008 DRDO chief, M Natarajan, to receive CV Raman Birth Centenary award 03 January 2008 Buffett's Hathway launches municipal bond insurance company 29 December 2007 Benazir Bhutto assassinated 27 December 2007 A multinational CEO's press meet leaves a refreshingly different flavour 24 December 2007 Bill Gates buys into Mexican brewer Femsa 21 December 2007 Vinod Rai appointed new comptroller and auditor-general of India 17 December 2007 Padmasree Warrior appointed CISCO's chief technology officer 15 December 2007 P M Venkatasubramanian appointed chairman of Royal Sundaram 12 December 2007 Vikram Pandit appointed Citi CEO; Sir Win Bischoff chairman 12 December 2007 James Murdoch anointed as News Corp heir apparent 08 December 2007 Muhtar Kent to succeed Neville Isdell as CEO at Coca-Cola 06 December 2007 Motorola’s Padmasree Warrior is Cisco’s new chief technology officer 05 December 2007 Lieut. Gen. AS Sekhon is Director General Military Operations, Indian Army 01 December 2007 Vice Admiral Dilip Deshpande is controller, warship production & acquisition, Indian Navy 01 December 2007 Albert Lord appointed as executive chairman of lender Sallie Mae 30 November 2007 Strangfeld to become Prudential chairman and CEO 30 November 2007 Tata, Mittal, Nooyi among Fortune list of 25 business heads 27 November 2007 American Airlines VP David Cush to head Virgin America Airlines 27 November 2007 SAP TomorrowNow chief resigns; unit may be for sale 22 November 2007 Satyam founder Ramalingam Raju awarded Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award for 2007 21 November 2007 Sir Richard Branson wants to enter India's domestic aviation sector 19 November 2007 Donald Trump Jr urges developers to think 'location, location, brand' while marketing to international investors 19 November 2007 Lakshmi Mittal tops Forbes list of Indian billionaires 19 November 2007 Dr Baldev Raj, director, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research awarded National Metallurgist Award 16 November 2007 Duncan Niederauer appointed CEO NYSE Euronext as John Thain becomes chairman and CEO, Merrill Lynch 16 November 2007 Sanjay Dhawan appointed president and COO of KKR and Sequoia company, Aricent 16 November 2007 Al Gore joins a California venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as partner 15 November 2007 Shantanu Narayen to become Adobe chief 15 November 2007 Vijay Kelkar heads 13th Finance Commission 15 November 2007 Sanjay Dhawan appointed president and COO of KKR and Sequoia company, Aricent 15 November 2007 Citibank boss quits as an additional $11 billion in sub-prime losses loom 05 November 2007 USIBC takes Lt Gen (ret) Jeffrey B Kohler onboard as senior advisor 03 November 2007 Steve Case steps down as chairman of AOLTime Warner 03 November 2007 AT&T restructures Asia Pacific business, announces new India Executive 02 November 2007 Dominique Strauss-Kahn takes over as IMF managing director 02 November 2007 Hyundai is fixated on the "i" 02 November 2007 Emirates exec vice chairman, Maurice Flanagan, inducted into CAPA Hall of Fame 01 November 2007 Hyundai adds style to the "A" segment with the i10 01 November 2007 Thomas Friedman calls for revolution in energy technologies 01 November 2007 Hyundai gets Ashok Jha on board ahead of its i10 launch 31 October 2007 Naresh Malhotra joins Sequoia Capital India 31 October 2007 R C Bhargava becomes chairman, Maruti Suzuki; S Nakanishi to succeed Jagdish Khattar as MD 29 October 2007 Sudhakar Balakrishnan heads Adecco India. Ajit Isaac moves out 26 October 2007 Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers announces new office bearers 25 October 2007 Simon Pangrazio appointed president and CEO of Burson-Marsteller''s Asia Pacific operations 25 October 2007 Standard Chartered Bank appoints Edwin Nevis to head Scope International; Sreeram Iyer to move to Amex 24 October 2007 Starlet Neha Dhupia inaugurates Piramyd Lifestyle Store at the Capital City 23 October 2007 Suzlon chief Tulsi Tanti, geologist D P Dobhal on Time`s `Heroes of Environment'' list 22 October 2007 British Airways World Cargo announces new appointments for India and Nepal 20 October 2007 Chairman of troubled British lender Northern Rock steps down 20 October 2007 ICICI Bank elevates Chanda Kochhar as joint MD and CFO in top level promotions 20 October 2007 Boeing names Pat Shanahan as 787 programme manager 20 October 2007 Bessemer Venture Partners names technology veteran Devesh Garg as managing director in India 17 October 2007 Ricky Ponting is the new brand ambassador for Valvoline Cummins 16 October 2007 Three Americans share Economics Nobel 15 October 2007 Mukesh Ambani says Reliance name not to be attached to retailing of ''non-veg'' items 13 October 2007 UN climate panel chief Rajendra Pachauri shares Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore 12 October 2007 Germany''s Ertl wins Nobel for ''surface chemistry'' 11 October 2007 Jet Airways appoints Abdulrahman Albusaidy as Group Executive Officer 10 October 2007 Air India joint MD, V Trivedi, will be master integrator for merged entity 08 October 2007 Western Union appoints Rajan Bhat, director business development, South Asia Region 08 October 2007 Equus Advertising''s Suhel Seth is British Airways advisory board member 06 October 2007 Amitabh Bachchan to lead Dabur''s entry into malted food drinks as brand ambassador 05 October 2007 Ryanair founder Tony Ryan dead 05 October 2007 Dish TV signs up Shah Rukh Khan 04 October 2007 V K Gulhati takes over as director (technical) at SAIL 04 October 2007 Ashwin Malik to head Whyte & Mackay, UB Group announces management reshuffle 03 October 2007 Som Mittal will be new Nasscom president 03 October 2007 BIG 92.7 FM rolls out TV campaign with Abhishek Bachchan as brand ambassador 29 September 2007 Sagarika Ghatge, aka Preeti Sabharwal, Reebok''s "Chak de" brand ambassador at Women''s World 28 September 2007 Bajaj Allianz makes top level changes and maintains continuity 26 September 2007 Chidambaram in race to chair IMF committee 25 September 2007 Sunita Williams to address session at IIT Bombay''s aero event Zephyr 25 September 2007 GAIL''s R K Goel to hold dual charege of chairman, Ratnagiri Gas & Power Pvt Ltd 24 September 2007 ESPN STAR Sports gets a new MD 22 September 2007 Fossett search ''downgraded''; searchers fast losing hope 22 September 2007 Bill Gates leads US rich list for a 14th year in a row 21 September 2007 DLF''s K P Singh pips Anil Ambani as second richest Indian 21 September 2007 Forbes 400 Richest Americans: Gates and Buffet maintain first and second rank 21 September 2007 Ford Motor Company revamps executive team 21 September 2007 National Aviation Company board reshuffled; Thulasidas to run Air India, Trivedi to head Air India Express 19 September 2007 US Federal Aviation Administration names United Airlines'' Krakowski as new COO 18 September 2007 Dr R Helmut Rupp appointed president, Hikal Technologies 17 September 2007 Naresh Wadhwa to lead Cisco India and SAARC operations 12 September 2007 US Airways names Robert Isom as its new chief operating officer 07 September 2007 Jim Press leaves Toyota to become President of Chrysler 07 September 2007 Hyundai chief gets suspended jail term; asked to pay $895 million fine 06 September 2007 Search continues for aviator Steve Fossett 06 September 2007 AAR names Don Wetekam as president of its aircraft services division 05 September 2007 S Krishnamurthy ISRO''s director publications and public relations succumbs to accident injuries 01 September 2007 Pankaj Razdan appointed as deputy CEO, financial services, Aditya Birla Group 28 August 2007 Dow Jones appoints new GMs for The Wall Street Journal Online, Barron''s Online and MarketWatch.com 27 August 2007 UA FAA chief will become aerospace lobbyist 23 August 2007 BAA's PR boss quits in a huff 23 August 2007 Kumar Mangalam will inherit all cement companies: B K Birla 13 August 2007 Kuldeep Goyal BSNL appointed 08 August 2007 Ajay Bimbhet to head Royal Sundaram 06 August 2007 Arvind Lalbhai 04 August 2007 Arvind group chairman Lalbhai passes away 03 August 2007 Vicky Bindra appointed president and CEO, GE Commercial Finance India 25 July 2007 DLF's K P Singh 24 July 2007 Girish Nair to head Aircel group HR 18 July 2007 Jet Airways appoints Gerry Oh as regional vice president for SE Asia 10 July 2007 Anil Ambani becomes second Indian trillionaire after brother Mukesh 10 July 2007 DRDO awards for missile scientists 09 July 2007 New MD for Whyte & Mackay 07 July 2007 ArcelorMittal says Junck to step down 06 July 2007 Prestigious Brahm Prakash Memorial Medal award for Dr VS Arunachalam 05 July 2007 Ashok Nayak takes over as managing director of HAL's Bangalore Complex 04 July 2007 Wipro's Premji among world's 30 all-time great entrepreneurs 03 July 2007 Gordon Brown takes over as British prime minister 28 June 2007 US-India Business Council to honour Mukesh Ambani, Boeing`s McNerney 25 June 2007 Terry Semel steps down as Yahoo CEO 19 June 2007 Prosecutors seek 6-year jail for convicted Hyundai chief 19 June 2007 Anupam Dutta appointed new MD of Kellogg''s India 18 June 2007 Vodafone chief Sarin gets an 18 per cent pay hike 18 June 2007 More than 30 American Indians named Ernst & Young awards finalists 08 June 2007 R S Sharma to be the new ONGC CMD 06 June 2007 Azim Premji's son to join Wipro 04 June 2007 Tejpreet Singh takes over as GE India head 02 June 2007 Seattle spammer Robert Alan Soloway arrested 01 June 2007 Naresh Trehan sells Escorts stake for Rs70 crore, joins Apollo Hospital 31 May 2007 Robert Zoellick to be next World Bank president 30 May 2007 Thulasidas is CMD of Air India, Trivedi named joint MD 29 May 2007 CPI(M) suspends Achuthanandan, Vijayan from politbureau 26 May 2007 Sunil Mittal elected CII president; K V 24 May 2007 Peter Loescher is new CEO, Siemens 21 May 2007 Naresh Trehan removed as Escorts Heart Institute executive director 19 May 2007 Cloud hangs over future of several of Maran's telecom initiatives 14 May 2007 Maran quits from Union Cabinet 14 May 2007 Boeing appoints Vivek Lall as VP business development for IDS in India 11 May 2007 Paliwal resigns from ABB, to join Harman Intl as CEO 11 May 2007 FICCI award for SAIL chairman 08 May 2007 Sanjay Sinha appointed CIO of SBI Mutual 08 May 2007 Infosys'' highest paid executive in 2006-07- Mohandas Pai 05 May 2007 Madan Menon to head India unit of Royal Bank of Scotland 28 April 2007 Respite for Wolfowitz now as World Bank widens probe 23 April 2007 Ex Russian President Boris Yeltsin Dies at 76 23 April 2007 Markus Mueller appointed director, sales and marketing, IHG South West Asia 23 April 2007 L N Mittal tops this year''s Sunday Times Rich List in the UK 19 April 2007 GM chief Rick Wagoner visits India 16 April 2007 Kiran Karnik to resign as Nasscom chief 13 April 2007 Bill Gates may venture into space, says Charles Simonyi 12 April 2007 Murali Sivaraman to succeed K Ramachandran at Philips in October 2007 31 March 2007 Amartya Sen gets lifetime achievement award 30 March 2007 Sanjay Dube moves to Unilever 27 March 2007 30 years after dropping out of Harvard, Bill Gates to receive honorary degree 24 March 2007 Air Deccan's Capt. Gopinath receives Aviation Week award 22 March 2007 Allan Brown joins Global Vectra Helicorp as CEO 22 March 2007 Wal-Mart grabs Reliance Retail''s top execs 22 March 2007 Lizum Mishra is communications director, Boeing India 16 March 2007 Rahul Bajaj takes brother to court 15 March 2007 Ravi Ruia may become chairman of Hutch-Essar 15 March 2007 Cairn India announces new appointments 15 March 2007 Narayana and Sudha Murthy conferred Yashwantrao Chavan award for 2006 13 March 2007 Orascom chief steps down from Hutchison board 07 March 2007 Anil Kumar Sardana appointed, executive director, Tata Power 06 March 2007 Gandhiji''s great grandson has to eke out a living 05 March 2007 Alcoa names Ratan Tata on board 17 February 2007 Ramki Sundaram appointed CFO Air Deccan 15 February 2007 IOB, OBC, Indian Bank to get new chiefs 15 February 2007 DRDO chief M. Natarajan - Foreign firms are now talking to us 09 February 2007 Ratan Tata takes off in F-18 Super Hornet 09 February 2007 Rajesh Ananthasubramanian to head Brand Portrait''s US, Canadian operations 08 February 2007 Salil Parekh is Capgemini India''s executive chairman 08 February 2007 Hyundai Motor chairman Chung gets 3 year''s jail for embezzlement 05 February 2007 Indra Nooyi elected chair person of PepsiCo 05 February 2007 Michael returns to lead Dell 01 February 2007 ApLab strengthens its European operations 30 January 2007 New EDs for PSU banks 29 January 2007 AOL names Maneesh Dhir as new VP 24 January 2007 K Garg takes over as NHPC chief 24 January 2007 Kishore Biyani conferred ''international retailer of the year'' award 18 January 2007 Kamal Bali joins Escorts as CEO 17 January 2007 Sudhakar Ram appointed Mastek chairman 17 January 2007 Thomas Cook appoints Amitabh Tewary as GM, financial services 15 January 2007 Rajeev Chandrasekhar is FICCI''s new vice-president 12 January 2007 Sunil Mittal is Fortune''s Asian businessman of year 12 January 2007 Kaushal Sampat takes over as COO, Dun & Bradstreet India 12 January 2007 Sameer Nair likely to join NDTV 12 January 2007 Indian American is honoured by US chemical industry 10 January 2007 Sanjay Das tipped to move to India as COO Star India 10 January 2007 Dilip Jayaram of ESPN Star Sports joins Procam International as Sr VP 03 January 2007 Sanjay Bhatia elected president, PHDCCI 26 December 2006 South Korea''s Ban Ki-Moon sworn as eighth UN Secretary General 15 December 2006 Nandan Nilekani named Ford Businessman of the year 30 November 2006 Vikram Akula conferred ''social entrepreneur of the year'' award for 2006 29 November 2006 Ambanis overtake Premji in Forbes'' India rich list 17 November 2006 Dr Jayant Narlikar and Bhoje wins H K Firodia 2006 awards 14 November 2006 Deutsche Telekom chief quits 13 November 2006 Update: Rene Obermann is Deutsche Telekom''s new chief 13 November 2006 Management reshuffle at Tube Investments of India 04 November 2006 ICICI Bank reshuffles senior management 03 November 2006 Y C Deveshwar named 'business person of the year' by UK government 02 November 2006 Anand Mahindra: CNBC's Asian business leader 27 October 2006 Atul Nishar, Gordon Brown to head Indo American Chambers, WR 26 October 2006 Murugappa Group names M A Alagappan as executive chairman, A Vellayan as vice chairman 26 October 2006 Cisco announces senior appointments 17 October 2006 RIL: Richest Indian heads India's most valuable company 16 October 2006 Mphasis-BFL chief Jerry Rao awarded by Chicago Graduate School of Business 13 October 2006 Homi Khusrokhan appointed MD, Tata Chemicals, Prasad Menon moves to Tata Power as MD 13 October 2006 Narayana Murthy inaugurates TV18 network''s Indiaearnings.com 11 October 2006 Three Indians in Fortune''s `Global Power 50'' list of businesswomen 11 October 2006 Edmund S Phelps wins Economics Nobel 09 October 2006 IDC''s former director of SOA research joins Butler Group 05 October 2006 Anil Sarin appointed director, public equities, Bessemer Venture partners 03 October 2006 New Commerce Secretary takes charge 30 September 2006 Mark Hurd takes over at HP as Patricia Dunn quits 23 September 2006 Two Indian-Americans in Forbes rich list 22 September 2006 Dr Reddy Penumalli appointed managing director, Analog Devices, India 20 September 2006 Boeing cost-cutter replaces Bill Ford at Ford Motor Co 06 September 2006 Indra Nooyi 4th in Forbes global power women list, Sonia Gandhi, Lalita Gupte, Kalpana Morparia, Vidya Chhabria included 01 September 2006 Thirteen scientists selected for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award 31 August 2006 R S Sharma is new CMD of ONGC 30 August 2006 Ex Microsoft director Remala joins S7 Software Solutions board 29 August 2006 SP Rao gets additional charge of CMD at GAIL 29 August 2006 Govt denies Gail CMD extension of service 28 August 2006 MetLife appoints Chander Chellani to spearhead agency sales 28 August 2006 Azim Premji outranks Google, eBay founders in Forbes''s IT rich list 24 August 2006 TiE appoints Pradeep Kar as president, Bangalore chapter 22 August 2006 Sify promotes V Sivaramakrishnan to president, portals 22 August 2006 Suri Venkat is Sify's new COO 18 August 2006 GAIL CMD selected Fellow of World Academy of Productivity Science 17 August 2006 Kumar Mangalam Birla resigns as director, Tata Steel 16 August 2006 India-born Indra Nooyi to take over as PepsiCo CEO 14 August 2006 Roland Junck appointed CEO of post-merger Arcelor-Mittal 05 August 2006 Anti - corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal among seven Magsasay Award winners 31 July 2006 AIG appoints Saurabh Sonthalia as the CEO of proposed Indian AMC 27 July 2006 Credit Suisse appoints Nilesh Jasani as India research head 27 July 2006 Tata AIG Life Insurance appoints Vivek Sood as CFO 27 July 2006 GE Commercial Finance gets a new CEO 25 July 2006 S Khasnobis takes over as MD and CEO, ARCIL 25 July 2006 Gail CMD receives SCOPE excellence award 07 July 2006 Madhuri Sapru is new MD of media agency Kinetic 07 July 2006 Rajnish Narula appointed chief executive, DBS Cholamandalam Asset Management 04 July 2006 M. Narayanan takes over as the new MD at Keltron 01 July 2006 O P Bhatt is new SBI chairman 30 June 2006 K M Birla, Aziz Premji on reconstituted RBI board 30 June 2006 Mats Granryd is new MD of Ericsson India 30 June 2006 Kyocera Wireless Appoints . K K Kushwaha as country director, sales and marketing 26 June 2006 Merrill Lynch''s Bruno Daher joins Credit Suisse 26 June 2006 Shebu Raphael to head Human Capital for Marlabs globally 21 June 2006 Microsoft's Sanjay Mirchandani joins EMC 12 June 2006 Motorola's Chennai-born lady CTO 08 June 2006 New senior appointments to strengthen Iron Port''s Asia-Pacific operations 08 June 2006 3i Infotech appoints Anirudh Prabhakaran as Chief Operating Officer, South Asia 06 June 2006 Satyam appoints Timothy Montgomery as senior VP, global insurance practice 06 June 2006 Mike Gallup to head energy and utilities consulting at Satyam 29 May 2006 Dr Ferdinand Allerkamp is new joint MD, MICO 27 May 2006 ONGC chief Subir Raha denied extension 25 May 2006 PL Gairola appointed CMD, Dena Bank 18 May 2006 Atul Vashist, CEO, neoIT, among world''s 25 most influential consultants 09 May 2006 Dale Moss, director, British Airways joins Jet Airways as COO 09 May 2006 Mrinal Sattawala appointed COO, Patni 09 May 2006 Dr K G Karmakar appointed MD, NABARD 08 May 2006 Arun Sinha, marketing head Pitney Bowes to join board of 24X7 Learning 03 May 2006 Vikram Akula, founder, CEO, SKS Microfinance, named Time''s Top 100 ''Most Influential People'' 03 May 2006 Dr Robert Baginski appointed Sr VP, global marketing, Satyam Computers 02 May 2006 Billionaire media baron Maran hits the news 29 April 2006 S Sridhar takes over as CMD National Housing Bank 26 April 2006 Xerox India appoints Ravi Venkatraman, director, global services 25 April 2006 Laser Soft inducts new face into its board 21 April 2006 New top management structure at DSP Merrill Lynch 18 April 2006 Dr Y S P Thorat appointed NABARD chairman 07 April 2006 Nandita Lakshman elected PRCAI president 29 March 2006 Naina Lal Kidwai to succeed Niall Booker as CEO, HSBC India 24 March 2006 Vivek Kudva to head Franklin Templeton India 23 March 2006 Ratan Tata on UK 22 March 2006 Poonam Gupta appointed VP, business development, NMCE 21 March 2006 Anupam Mittal is IAMI chairman 16 March 2006 Huzaifa Khorakiwala Dr Murtaza Khorakiwala join Wockhardt board 16 March 2006 Bill Gates tops Forbes billionaires list for the 12th year in a row; Mittal slips to 5th 10 March 2006 India Shining: 19 resident Indians in Forbes billionaires list 10 March 2006 Satyam''s Alpna Doshi elected on Tele-Management Forum board 04 March 2006 Airtel puts new new management structure in place for telecom business 01 March 2006 Bobby Srinivasan to head Roamware, as Mohan Gyani becomes vice chairman 10 February 2006 Coca-Cola International sets structure; names leaders 09 February 2006 ADAG reconstitutes the board of its four companies 08 February 2006 Update: Retired in the US, Greenspan is hired in the UK 01 February 2006 US Fed chairman Alan Greenspan steps down 01 February 2006 iGate Global Solutions appoints new Head of Marketing 27 January 2006 HLL announces key appointments 25 January 2006 Udayan Bose is Thomas Cook''s non-executive chairman 23 January 2006 Madhavan Nair, Narayana Murthy awarded honorary doctorates 16 January 2006 MCI''s Michael Sauer to head Reliance Communications 16 January 2006 Keshub Mahindra presented ''Qimpro quality statesman'' award 13 January 2006 Keki Dadiseth joins Goldman Sachs as advisor 07 January 2006 Shekhar Dasgupta joins Solix as president and COO 07 January 2006 Biocons' Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw wins Wharton-Infosys business transformation awards 07 January 2006 Prakash Karnik is exec. vice president at IDFC Private Equity 05 January 2006 Shantilal Daga in IFAC''s developing nations committee 03 January 2006 Bibek Debroy is Secretary General, PHDCCI 03 January 2006 Neville Roach to head TCS-FNS 03 January 2006 Udayan Bose joins Reliance Capital''s board 29 December 2005 India''s 40 richest individuals worth four times more than China''s top 40 17 December 2005 Baillie to be CEO, HLL India; Adhikari to head, Unilever Japan 16 December 2005 Dr Thomas Dueckers appointed president of Bharat Forge''s global operations 08 December 2005 Ramesh Anand to head sales for HeroITES'' US operations 06 December 2005 Balvinder Kalsi is country president for DuPont India 03 December 2005 K V Kamath is Business India''s businessman of the year 01 December 2005 Alfa Laval appoints Nish Patel as new MD 30 November 2005 Chetan Tolia named MD of Tata Steel-BlueScope JV 23 November 2005 Losing My Virginity 18 November 2005 Put employees first: Sir Richard Branson 18 November 2005 NTPC CMD receives E&Y''s ''entrepreneur of the year'' award 16 November 2005 IEE presents the prestigious Faraday Medal to Azim Premji 11 November 2005 Pier-Paolo Dipaola appointed Dy CEO, SBI Life 08 November 2005 Indian wins Wharton-Infosys award 08 November 2005 Azim Premji will be first Indian to receive the Faraday Medal 03 November 2005 Prakash Nanani is Spice Telecom''s new CEO for Punjab and Karnataka 28 October 2005 Datamatics appoints H Khorakiwala, Dr Uday Salunkhe as independent directors 27 October 2005 Yes Bank appoints Arun Agrawal to head FI and international banking 27 October 2005 LN Mittal wins $4.8-billion televised auction for Ukrainian plant 25 October 2005 Ben Bernanke nominated to succeed Alan Greenspan 25 October 2005 Narayana Murthy resigns as BIAL chairman 21 October 2005 Ratan Tata assumes charge as chairman, Tata Tele 19 October 2005 K Vijayan to quit as CEO JM Financial Asset Management 19 October 2005 John Chambers, president and CEO, Cisco Systems, to visit India 17 October 2005 T N Prabhu Joins Walt Disney India''s Internet group 17 October 2005 NITIE honours Raha, Ratan Tata, Kakodkar 15 October 2005 K Sivaprakasam appointed MD of CARE 11 October 2005 N Sundararajan elected president of IIA 03 October 2005 Giovanni De Filippis is Fiat India''s new MD 03 October 2005 Gopal Shrikanth is new IDC country head 01 October 2005 Young Indian is Outstanding American of the Year 30 September 2005 TN Thakur appointed CMD of PTC 30 September 2005 Hitachi GST appoints Ruud van der Linden VP, Asia Pacific 29 September 2005 IIT Roorkee awards doctorate to Rahul Bajaj 23 September 2005 Dr Kannan succeeds Khan at ASI 19 September 2005 Meenu Handa appointed president for Ogilvy PR, India 13 September 2005 Prosad Dasgupta appointed CEO and MD of Petronet LNG 09 September 2005 JRD has been an icon for me 02 September 2005 Dr Arun Ranade selected for ''spirit of Mastek'' award 29 August 2005 Times Internet COO joins Reliance Entertainment as president 23 August 2005 K Surender named country head, Dax Networks 19 August 2005 V Sumantran to quit Tata Motors 17 August 2005 It is recognition and awards time for Dr.Baldev Raj 16 August 2005 Proshanto Banerjee gets Marketing King award 16 August 2005 Ericsson appoints Mats Granryd as president, India and Sri Lanka operations 11 August 2005 Dr Kannan to head EET committee 10 August 2005 Nalini Gupta joins as REL''s Marketing Advisor 21 July 2005 Bruce Ashby VP US Airways to take over as IndiGo CEO 20 July 2005 New head for Ashok Leyland's product development 20 July 2005 IG Patel dead 18 July 2005 Sir Edward Heath passes away 18 July 2005 Dr. K K Jajodia is chairman of Assam Oil & Natural Gas, Lord Inchcape joins as director 18 July 2005 Nagabhushana Rao joins Tata Sons''s SerWizSol as CEO 12 July 2005 Sanjay Behl joins Reliance Infocomm from Nokia 12 July 2005 Rawi Puri appointed CEO S Kumars Nationwide''s home textiles division 09 July 2005 S Sivakumar of ITC elected president of HMA 06 July 2005 UB reshuffles top finance portfolio 06 July 2005 Rajeev Karwal confirms resignation as CEO Electroloux India 04 July 2005 A.K.Shukla takes over as LIC Chairman 02 July 2005 Ms Daruwalla is CMD, Central Bank of India 02 July 2005 Aurobindo Mohanty appointed vice president, marketing, Rasna 02 July 2005 John Ustas to head Coke's bottling operation in India 02 July 2005 Gautam Doshi is group president ADA Enterprises, to head M&A 01 July 2005 Mallya is executive director, Oriental Bank of Commerce 01 July 2005 Vivek Paul quits Wipro for Texas Pacific 01 July 2005 B. Ramalinga Raju, conferred Lifetime Achievement Award by Hyderabad Management Association 30 June 2005 Tata Group raises retirement age; Ratan Tata to stay chairman till 2012 28 June 2005 Banga bids adieu 25 June 2005 Takahiro Maeda appointed Yamaha Motor India's director sales and marketing 21 June 2005 Yes Bank appoints Dr M Y Khan as chairman of its advisory council 13 June 2005 Darryl Green is Tata Teleservices'' first CEO 09 June 2005 Chairman Suneel Advani also becomes MD of Blue Star Infotech 08 June 2005 Karan Bilimoria becomes UK''s youngest university Chancellor 23 May 2005 Ventura appoints Anupam Arun as country head 18 May 2005 HLL co opts Harish Manwani as director 02 May 2005 Naresh Gupta promoted to senior VP at Adobe Systems 21 April 2005 Barron''s names Vivek Paul amongst the world''s most respected CEOs 19 April 2005 M & M''s Bharat Doshi wins best CFO award 15 April 2005 Ratan Tata steps down as VSNL chairman 12 April 2005 Deepak Shourie appointed Chairman, CASBAA India chapter 07 April 2005 Ashok Leyland appoints Vinod Dasari as COO 05 April 2005 Satyam''s Ramalinga Raju is vice chairman of NASSCOM 02 April 2005 Munish Dayal appointed president, business banking at Yes Bank 02 April 2005 Dr Prathap C Reddy honoured for healthcare delivery in South Asia 30 March 2005 Sarthak Behuria, Raji Philip, to head SCOPE 24 March 2005 K Venkataramani appointed marketing director, Levi Strauss India 22 March 2005 Saurabh Saksena to head Mudra South 15 March 2005 Bajaj Auto board approves of Rajiv Bajaj as MD, Rahul Bajaj to stay chairman 10 March 2005 Rupesh Bhambwani is Roamware''s new SAARC region head 09 March 2005 Dr A K Khandelwal appointed CMD of Bank of Baroda 02 March 2005 ISRO chief, Madhavan Nair to get Nayudamma award 22 February 2005 Lord Dholakia, Saeed Jaffrey, Kartar Lalvani and Sir Noon get ''Pride of India'' awards 21 February 2005 Damodaran takes charge of SEBI on Bajpayi''s retirement 19 February 2005 G N Bajpai retires as SEBI chief 19 February 2005 Godbole to officiate as IDBI chairman 19 February 2005 Kodak Names Kevin Hobert as President of Health Group 18 February 2005 Vikas Gupta returns to Coca-Cola India as new marketing head 17 February 2005 Ravi Dubey is advisor to Hanmer & Partners 11 February 2005 Lakshmipat Singhania—IIML National Leadership Awards 2004 announced 07 February 2005 Finolex revises prices of PVC resin & pipes 02 February 2005 Raghupati Singhania awarded 'top CEO award' at World Marketing Congress 31 January 2005 Anand Khare quits Reuters to join Kale Consultants 20 January 2005 Dr Mahendra Patel joins Zydus Pharmaceuticals 20 January 2005 Jaspal Bindra to head Stanchart's new South-asia Region 15 January 2005 Uday Khemka selected as Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum 15 January 2005 Anil Ambani quits IPCL board 03 January 2005 Bhaskaran is new CEO of Indian Institute of Banking and Finance 30 December 2004 Exim''s Sonavane is MD, CEO of GTF 30 December 2004 Narasimha Rao passes away at AIIMS 23 December 2004 S B Mathur, ex LIC chairman appointed SUUTI administrator 21 December 2004 LG India''s MD to head South-west Asia operations 20 December 2004 Rajiv Lall to head IDFC 06 December 2004 Pankaj Patel declared 'best pharma man of the year' by FIIE 01 December 2004 24/7 Customer appoints Doug Bettinger of Intel as CFO 26 November 2004 MAIT appoints new chairman for southern region 04 November 2004 Sudipta Sen appointed CEO & MD SAS India 13 October 2004 Leeladhar, Gopinath assume charge at RBI 22 September 2004 Leeladhar appointed RBI deputy governor 21 September 2004 Cisco appoints Varghese Thomas as senior manager — corporate communication 20 September 2004 Red Hat appoints Praveen Sawkar''s regional manager, South 13 September 2004 Yes Bank appoints Suresh Sethi as country head for transaction banking 13 September 2004 James Mitchell receives 2004 CRM influential leader award 09 September 2004 Nirvana business solutions appoints Jules Rondepierre as president, airlines services 09 September 2004 Red Hat names Charlie Peters as CFO 09 September 2004 Iomega appoints Haja Sheriff as regional manager, Asia Pacific, Middle East 02 September 2004 Sanjiv Gupta gets 'golden peacock' award from Institute of Directors 21 August 2004 Kate Johnson is Red Hat''s vice president - services 20 August 2004 Ajay Singh heads India sales for Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance 20 August 2004 Cherie Tandon Saldanha is Diamond Trading's new marketing head in India 12 August 2004 Venu Srinivasan receives honorary doctorate from University of Warwick, UK 31 July 2004 Gautam Thapar appointed Chairman of Crompton Greaves 24 July 2004 IMG India appoints Harish Doraiswamy 23 July 2004 Tony Mirrcandani joins Country Club Mumbai as COO 05 July 2004 Navanit appointed COO of Epicenter Technologies 30 June 2004 HDFC Mutual appoints Mr.Prashant Jain as cio 21 June 2004 NASDAQ appoints Stuart Patterson as head for Asia Pacific region 21 June 2004 Red Hat appoints Regional Manager in Delhi 17 June 2004 Adaptec's Raghu Allamsetty elected chairman of AMCHAM 28 May 2004 Virtusa appoints Jagdish Bapat as HR ditrector of its ATC in Hyderabad 15 May 2004 Mark Cleaver appointed India country manager for BT Asia Pacific 05 May 2004 Staffware appoints country head for India operations 03 May 2004 Asian Institute of Technology honours Ratan Tata 26 April 2004 OM Kotak Mahindra appoints Karan Bhalla as vice president 26 April 2004 Dilip Chenoy takes charge of SIAM, Rajat Nandi retires 21 April 2004 Finolex turnover crosses 1000 crores 13 April 2004 Prof Jagdish Seth talks on new frontiers in brand building 07 April 2004 Maneesh Nerurkar joins Nicholas Piramal as head of Formulations Research 31 March 2004 Sharad Srivastava appointed as vice president of CSC 24 March 2004 Emirates has new Vice President for India and Nepal 22 March 2004 Sybase appoints a director of sales in India 05 March 2004 Simone Tata Rejoins The IFA Board Gurcharan Das And Romi Khosla Appointed Trustees 04 March 2004 World-renowned bioscientist, Dr. Saran Narang joins Nicholas Piramal Scientific Advisory Board 04 March 2004 Crisis management needs response, not reaction 02 March 2004 Manupatra Information Solutions Pvt. Ltd. appoints the Head of Operations 26 February 2004 Indian IT companies should move up value chain: Murthy 10 February 2004 Kashiff Khan to head Srinivas Fine Arts'' Middle East marketing operations 09 February 2004 Azim Premji''s lessons in life 09 February 2004 MyDoom : When spam and virus converge 07 February 2004 Pentamedia''s Mayajaal 07 February 2004 PSL to export $16 million worth API line pipes to Bangladesh and Oman 07 February 2004 A chairman who is also the general manager 04 February 2004 MetLife India expands to Coimbatore 04 February 2004 Arjun Malhotra to head Headstrong 03 February 2004 TeamLease appoints Madhu Damodaran as Senior Vice President 28 January 2004 Antony Jacob joins Royal Sundaram as MD 27 January 2004 Maddy hires IMG to manage his commercial affairs 27 January 2004 Kiran Karnik inaugurates Comnet Direct Leadership Forum 24 January 2004 Finolex Industries net zooms by 121 percent 17 January 2004 Ramaswamy is new SBH GM 02 January 2004 BHEL engineer bags award 29 December 2003 Retreat of a titan 29 December 2003 FCG India appoints Budramane as director, application delivery 23 December 2003 Charu Sharma signs up with 9 Yards Sports & Entertainment 08 December 2003 Raj Bowen appointed CEO of Dale Carnegie Training India 08 December 2003 Insurance top bosses change 05 December 2003 Voith Paper Technology CEO Hans Mueller delivers speech 05 December 2003 Arshad Zakaria, Arun Sarin join the ISB governing board 02 December 2003 Skybus project not a viable proposition, says Sreedharan 27 November 2003 Mukerjea bags MTR Indian Telly Awards'' CEO of the year 25 November 2003 Murosoli Maran passes away 24 November 2003 Narayanamurthy leads the pack 24 November 2003 Govindacharya: Centre must end US control in marine, agriculture 24 November 2003 Jaswant promises fake stamp paper transactions will be valid 24 November 2003 Mirza joins Blue Star board 18 November 2003 IIT doctorate for Premji 17 November 2003 Rajat Gupta: Asia must create globally competitive companies 14 November 2003 B R Jaju is CFO of the year 10 November 2003 ING Vysya Life protects Zaheer, Harbhajan, Yuvraj Singh 07 November 2003 Jamdar to join Blue Star board 03 November 2003 Ricky Ponting is CricketNext brand ambassador for 4 years 03 November 2003 E&Y chooses Ratan Tata for Entrepreneur of the Year award 30 October 2003 Dheeraj Hinduja elevated as vice chairman of Ashok Leyland 30 October 2003 Gopalakrishnan is N America director of ICICI OneSource 28 October 2003 Neville Taraporewalla appointed country manager of Yahoo! India 28 October 2003 Mandela''s global AIDS plan get support from FedEx Express 23 October 2003 Britannia''s company secretary Ravi Mannath steps down 20 October 2003 Jagdish Sheth predicts economic invasion of India by US 15 October 2003 E V Ramana Reddy appointed new IT secretary of Karnataka 15 October 2003 LIC wins bid for Harshad's ACC shares at Rs 170 per share 11 October 2003 LG MD K R Kim honoured 10 October 2003 9 08 October 2003 Vidya Manohar Chhabria, Naina Lal Kidwai in Fortune''s list 07 October 2003 Court releases Rs 400 crore from Harshad Mehta''s funds 06 October 2003 Holcim joins bid race to pick up Big Bull's 11 per cent stake in ACC 06 October 2003 Nicholas Piramal rolls out growth plan; Maini, Chaudhuri on board 03 October 2003 Kalam opens human vaccine plant of Indian Immunologicals 03 October 2003 Naidu escapes bid on life 01 October 2003 Karnataka IT secretary quits 30 September 2003 Vikram Shah to head Talisma 30 September 2003 Steve Waugh termed Australian tourism ambassador to India 29 September 2003 Kalam for creating affordable, effective healthcare system 29 September 2003 Amar Sinha is CEO of BDA 24 September 2003 Madhavan Nair is ISRO chief 23 September 2003 Tandon, Balaram bag HK Firodia awards for excellence in science 20 September 2003 R P Goenka is keen on stepping down as chairman of CESC 20 September 2003 Raghupati Singhania is MD and vice-chairman of JK Industries 20 September 2003 The future lies in it 09 September 2003 Madhavan Nair is secretary, dept of space; chairman, ISRO 02 September 2003 Walchand launches 9 Yards, signs up Bhutia, Paes, Koirala, Ponting 01 September 2003 Jitendra N Doshi to be interim chief of Caraco Pharmaceuticals 30 August 2003 Bourse-barred Samir Arora appears before SEBI for hearing 29 August 2003 Partha Sarkar joins HTMT as COO, to head ITES division 28 August 2003 Nerolac Paints unveils strategy; Bachchan is brand ambassador 26 August 2003 Dhirubhai is ''top businessman'' 19 August 2003 Kale''s Srikanth honoured 18 August 2003 HTMT appoints Subramanian as IT services operations head 18 August 2003 Big Bull''s ACC, Bombay Dyeing shares not to be auctioned now 15 August 2003 John Cary joins Toonz India as director (European marketing) 12 August 2003 TDSAT judgement : Dr B K Modi calls for a level-playing field 09 August 2003 Timex signs Brett Lee as brand ambassador for Billenium 09 August 2003 ASI president Liyaquat Khan against passage of Actuaries Bill 07 August 2003 Sabre Cap enters MF business; Samir Arora to head the venture 06 August 2003 Ichiban on an expansion spree; Sandhu joins as marketing head 05 August 2003