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NOVEMBER 2018
Sunil Bhaskaran
AirAsia India announced the appointment of Sunil Bhaskaran as the Chief Executive Offi cer and
Managing Director with effect from November 15, 2018, to oversee the next phase of expansion and
growth of the company.
Abhijit Bose
Facebook-owned messaging service app, WhatsApp has appointed Abhijit Bose as the CEO for the India
region. Bose, the Co-founder and Chief Executive Offi cer of enterprise payments solutions fi rm Ezetap.
He will work to establish WhatsApp India, expected to begin its operations next year.
Piyush Patnaik
Has been elevated as the Managing Director of Cargill’s oil business in India.
Vinesh Nair
Practo appoints Vinesh Nair who was working with travel booking company redBus. He joined redBus
as Head HR in 2012 as Head of Learning and Development.
Smriti Singh
Flipkart appoints Smriti Singh as the new Chief Human Resources Offi cer (CHRO) of the Indian
e-commerce company, Flipkart. Singh will take charge of the new role at Flipkart in December and will
work closely with the Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy
Aditya Ghosh
OYO Hotels &Homes appoints Aditya Ghosh as CEO, South Asia. He is an Ex Indigo President Aditya
Ghosh.
Adarsh Nair
Bharti Airtel appointed Adarsh Nair as the Chief Product Offi cer (CPO). He was Head of Product and
Growth at Convoy Inc.
DECEMBER 2018
Madhu Srivastava
Vedanta Group has appointed Madhu Srivastava as the Group CHRO for the company. Madhu has been
part of the Vedanta Group for 6 years and in her earlier role, she was the CHRO for Cairn Oil & Gas
business of Vedanta for more than 2 years.
Ravindra Kumar GP
Tata Motors appointed Ravindra Kumar GP as President and CHRO, effective December 17, 2018. He
replaces Gajendra Chandel who resigned in the 1st week of December 2018 from Tata Group
Mahesh Narayanan
LinkedIn appointed Mahesh Narayanan as Country Manager for India, effective January 7, 2019.
Nilanjan Roy
Infosys has appointed Nilanjan Roy as chief fi nancial offi cer, effective 1 March 2019. Nilanjan replaces
interim CFO Jayesh Sanghrajka, who will resume his responsibilities as deputy CFO. Sanghrajka had
taken temporary charge of the position after M.D. Ranganath abruptly resigned as the company’s CFO
in August this year.
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