Kellogg Graduates Schools, Bala on Usha IT board
New Delhi: The Rai-family controlled Usha group, which has announced its intention to enter the IT arena with force, has strengthened its board of directors.

The group’s software arm, Information Technologies India, has braoadbased its board by inducting well-known Kellogg’s Graduate School of Management professor, Mr. Bala Balachandran, into the company board. He is the sixth outside director on the 15-member company board and is part of our efforts to put in place a framwework for corporate governance.

The other outside directors include, ex-Coopers and Lybrand consultant Mr. Ramesh Vaish, former IFCI chairman, Mr K D Agarwal, and well-known fashion designer Ritu Beri.

Mr. Balachandran is the director of the accounting research centre in Kellogg’s Graduate School of Management and has to his credit several books on management. He has also joined as one of the directors on behalf of Kellogg’s in the much publicised India Business School at Hyderabad.
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Garrick D'Silva to be Whirlpool Asia V-P
New Delhi: Mr. Garrick D’Silva, chairman and managing director of Whrilpool India, who joined the company in 1994, has been elevated to the post of regional vice-president of Whirpool Asia with immediate effect.

His place, as managing director of Indian operations, will be taken by Mr. Raj Jain, who was earlier executive director, sales (marketing and service). Mr. Jain will assumed his new responsibilities from January 2001.
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Motorola loses key executive
Chicago: Mr. Merle Gilmore, head of Motorola's communications enterprise, unexpectedly resigned from the company on Thursday. He is slated to leave the unit, formed two years ago to co-ordinate and oversee all of Motorola's communications-related activities including its mobile phone business, immediately.

While Motorola declined to discuss the circumstances surrounding his departure, the departure comes 24 hours after the company warned that earnings this year and next would be well below previous forecasts.

At least for the immediate future, Mr Gilmore's position is to be filled by Mr. Bob Growney, Motorola's chief operating officer, who will also become acting president of the communications enterprise.
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