Ishaat Hussain is Voltas chairman
Mumbai: Voltas has a new chairman – Ishaat Hussain. He replaces A.H. Tobaccowala, who retired as chairman on 31 December 1999. Mr Hussain has been on the board of Tata Sons as executive director and is a member of  Tata group’s executive office. He joined the Voltas board in April 1999.
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Steven Forte is Jet CEO
Mumbai: Steven Forte, an Italian aviation expert and former senior vice-president of Air Meridiana of Italy, is the new chief executive officer of Jet Airways. He is expected to take over on 1 February.

Jet Airways has been without a CEO since Nikos Kardassis left the airline in July 1999. Saroj Dutta, executive director, has been officiating as CEO. Mr Forte, 58, was Mr Kardassis’ senior when the two worked with TWA.
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Purushottam leaves Lintas
Mumbai: Andrey Purushottam, media director at ad agency Lintas Lowe, is leaving the agency. He is joining Asiacontent.com, a leading Internet content company based in Hong Kong, as managing director of the company’s India operations. Mr Purushottam has also worked with Lintas Indonesia as head of Unilever-related activities.
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Robert Eaton to retire from DaimlerChrysler
Auburn Hills: Robert Eaton, who drove a stagnant Chrysler, the US automaker into revival mode and pioneered its merger into DaimlerChrysler, is retiring as co-chairman of the car company in March 2000. He says his decision was already known -- that he would go once the merger was complete. 

A hands-on manager with an engineering background, Mr Eaton plans to pursue his personal interests – off-road motorcycling. His present job contract forbids him from taking up another assignment in the auto sector. Mr Eaton joined Chrysler in 1992 as vice-chairman and chief operating officer and replaced Lee Iacocca as chairman and CEO in 1993. He was earlier with General Motors.
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