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12 July 2001

Zee CEO Uma Ganesh quits
Mumbai—Uma Ganesh, one of the four CEOs of Zee Telefilms, has resigned.
Uma Ganesh headed the Zee Interactive Learning Systems division and has handed over charge to the chief operating officer Dilip Mohapatra.
It is learnt that Ms Ganesh had not yet decided on a new appointment and would be on a sabbatical for some time.
Ganesh has been with the company in various designations for seven years. AS CEO, she headed the chain of 250 Zee career academies, as well as the Zee Learning Internet portal.
She was also in-charge of the learning channel ZedTV, including the development of programming and content for the channel.

10 July 2001

Lalita Gupte to head ICICI's international operations
Mumbai—Lalita Gupte, joint managing director, ICICI, has given the responsibility of the group's international business as "joint managing director and chief operating officer — international business." While Gupte will continue to be on the ICICI board, under the new set-up ICICI will have two executive directors: S Mukherji and Kalpana Morparia. They will report directly to CEO and managing director KV Kamath. All credit-related issues will be handled by Mr Mukherji while Ms Morparia will look after resources and liability matters..

Reportedly Gupte is not very happy with the decision and many in the business feel that this will distance her from the Indian operations where the real action is.