Bacardi-Martini appoints top level executives
Mumbai: Bacardi-Martini has appointed Jayant Kapur as chairman of the board of directors of the company while Mahesh Madhavan, currently managing director of Bacardi Thailand, has been relocated to India and promoted to president and CEO of Bacardi-Martini India. The senior appointments will come into effect from August 1.
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Piyush Pandey appointed vice chairman of O&M Asia Pacific
Mumbai: Piyush Pandey has been elected vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific by the agency's regional board. Pandey will continue as executive chairman and national creative director, O&M India. Last year, Pandey was inducted into Ogilvy's worldwide board.
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More than 30 American Indians named Ernst & Young awards finalists
New York: More than 30 Indian Americans are among the regional finalists selected for the Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of The Year awards for 2007.

Prominent American Indians in the list include Dipak Jain, dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Anil Sunkara, chief executive officer of AdvanSoft International. Both are from Lake area of Michigan.

Jaswinder Singh Chaddha, Francisco D'Souza, Roopa Makhija, Hiten Patel, Ranjani Posddar, Imran Shah and Karmit S. Sidhu are the seven finalists from the state of New Jersey.

Other notable regional Indian American finalists include Prashanth Boccasam, Shankar Iyer, Rahul Sharma, Bala Sundar, Yatish Mishra, Puneet Nanda, Manu Shah, Raj, Pritam M. Advani, Inderpal Guglani, Anurag Mehta, Naseem A. Munshi, Asit J. Choksi, Satin Mirchandani, Shri Thanedari, Dilip Dubey, Ravinder Sandhu, Ganesh Iyer, Gulam Khan, Sunil Hirani, Adnan Mjalli, Raman Kumar, Rohit H. Patel and Raza Bokhari.

The winners will be inducted into the Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of The Year Hall of Fame.
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Digambar Kamat is Goa CM
Panaji: Congress leader, Digambar Kamat has been sworn-in as the new chief minister of Goa. Three other ministers, one each from Congress, NCP and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) were also sworn in as ministers.

Kamat, the 54-year-old Power Minister in the present Congress government led by Pratapsinh Rane, was ''unanimously'' elected as the leader of Congress Legislature Party last night and was the compromise choice for the post after opinions among Congress MLAs were sharply divided on whether Pratapsinh Rane or Naik would become the chief minister.
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