people > in the news In the news 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 Open-source software maker Sourcefire chooses Citrix executive as new CEO 18 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 US fourth-largest bank Wachovia fires CEO as losses mount; may be takeover target 03 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 Royal Bank of Scotland announces four key appointments to strengthen India operations 19 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 Four Indians among top 10 in Forbes rich list; Buffett at the top 06 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. 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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 US treasury secretary Henry Paulson wants India to open up for capital flows 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