KPMG, a global network of firms providing professional services, today announced the appointment of Utkarsh Palnitkar as Partner and National Head of Transactions and Restructuring practice and National Head of Life sciences practice in India.

KPMG appoints Utkarsh Palnitkar as National Head of Transactions

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Essar Energy has appointed Deepak Maheshwari as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company and the current CFO P Sampath has taken charge as President of business optimisation and improvement

Essar Energy appoints Deepak Maheshwari as new CFO

GroupM's flagship media agency Mindshare has appointed Siddharth Sethi as Leader, Digital for Mindshare India. In his new role, Sethi will be responsible for boosting the agency's full-service digital offerings geared towards actively pushing Adaptive Planning, Performance and Digital Analytics to the fore.

Siddharth Sethi joins Mindshare India as leader, digital

Newsmaker: PNC Menon

Samsung gets new boss to boost handset sales

BS People: Vineet Taneja

Hospitality chain The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts today said Rajesh Jhingon has been appointed as group executive vice president, operations.

Leela appoints Rajesh Jhingon as group executive vice president

Gerasimos Dorizas appointed chief representative; Mahesh Kodumudi President and Managing Director of Volkswagen India

Volkswagen India sees top deck change amid 'rough weather'

Newsmaker: Gautam Adani

Yebhi ropes in Google India's marketing head to grow big

BS People: Nikhil Rungta

Electronics giant Samsung today said it has appointed Vineet Taneja as the country head for its mobile & digital imaging business.

Vineet Taneja to head Samsung's mobile, digital imaging business

Wipro gets new marketing boss to regain lost ground

BS People: Puneet Chandra

Toshiba appoints Warke to drive India sales

BS People: Sanjay Warke

A few months ago at a glittering mutual fund awards night, the chief executive of an asset management company was asked where he likes to go on vacation. The compere expected an exotic destination like Montreux or Tuscany. Pat came the reply: &ldquo;My hometown in Bihar&rdquo;. The answer was classic Upendra Kumar Sinha &mdash; simple and forthright. And, yes, he was on the dais to accept one of the many awards on behalf of UTI Mutual Fund.

Newsmaker: U K Sinha

Sitting in the sixth-floor conference hall in BP&rsquo;s headquarters in Central London on the afternoon of February 21 were two of the most powerful men in the world&rsquo;s energy business. One was the buyer and the other the seller. They were not at a negotiating table. That was all done and dealt with.

Newsmaker: Robert Dudley

HCL Techâ€™s new CEO would rather build on the legacy of his star predecessor to take the IT firm into the league of global biggiesYou expect a chief executive officer (CEO) in his second month in office to be in a hurry to reorder things a bit â€” more so if heâ€™s stepping into big shoes of a star predecessor. But I sense none of it in 47-year-old Anant Gupta, the new CEO of $4.2 billion HCL Technologies, as we settle down for lunch at Taipan at The Oberoi, New Delhi, writes Shailesh Dobhal. Gupta says he is a light luncher, and we decide on some soup â€“ hot and sour chicken for him and clear vegetable for myself â€“ Bengal Bekti in black bean sauce, noodles and some sticky rice.So, when did he realise he may have made the cut for the top job? â€œFrom the timing perspective, I have no view, but from the way my portfolio has been growing, itâ€™s been going on for a while.â€ Beyond the infrastructure management vertical that Gupta help build into

Lunch with BS: Anant Gupta

Newsmaker: Azim Premji

Family managements are coming of age in India, says a professional whose experience has mostly been in professionally managed multinationalsAfter a winter of notoriety for the city, meeting someone who feels good about being in Delhi is perplexing. But then, Ravi Uppal, managing director and chief executive officer of Jindal Steel & Power (JSPL), is a Delhi-bred professional who is enjoying a homecoming after three decades spent elsewhere, including in West Asia and Europe, writes Jyoti Mukul.But, in every other sense, the experience will be new for a man who has worked in a range of professionally managed multinationals and Indian conglomerates. Fast-growing JSPL is very much a family-managed business, promoted and chaired by a serving Congress Member of Parliament, Naveen Jindal. And Uppal came on board at a most challenging time â€” just as the group came under a cloud for possible collusive coal mine allotments and a sting operation against Zee TV that recor

Lunch with BS: Ravi Uppal, MD & CEO, Jindal Steel & Power

He is a control freak in the kitchenâ€”yes, he likes to buy his veggies and go through the entire drill of rustling up something nice for his boys  â€” but Rana Barua, the newly appointed chief operating officer at Contract Advertising, is a completely hands-off manager at work.â€œI like to delegate; if you hire a person and donâ€™t allow him or her to do his job, you would be cheating that person,â€ says Barua.Barua joins from Law & Kenneth and succeeds Umesh Shrikhande who left the agency after putting in 17 years. Shrikhande, along with Jagdip Bakshi, who preceded him, was credited with inculcating a culture of sound thinking and a value-based approach to doing business. Barua understands theirs will be a tough act to follow. â€œSee, there was a Contract of the 1990s and there was a Contract of the 2000s. And growth during these two phases happened in two different directions. Now the environment has changed and I can tell you itâ€™s time for Contract to cha

BS People: Rana Barua

The Board of Directors of General Electric elected Cognizant CEO Francisco Dâ€™Souza to its board of directors.

Cognizant CEO joins GE Board

It is perhaps his risk-taking nature, sometimes bordering on recklessness, that lands him in trouble. Just when Sanjay Chandra, managing director of Unitech, was getting back to doing what he knows best â€” real estate â€” heâ€™s hit the headlines again, and for all the wrong reasons. Chandra, 40, has denied any links with the taped conversation with CBI prosecutor AK Singh on the agency's trial strategy, but if the allegations of collusion between the two are true, repercussions could be serious.The investigative agency may seek cancellation of his bail that he had secured after seven months in custody in 2011 for his alleged role in the 2G spectrum scam when A Raja was the telecom minister.The alleged hobnobbing with the prosecutor is reminiscent of Chandraâ€™s networking with Raja and his men, both in the environment ministry and the department of telecom . CBI says Chandra would often meet Raja, the prime accused in the 2G case, when he was the environment m

Newsmaker: Sanjay Chandra

With the appointment of Mahendra Kumar Sharma, former vice-chairman of Hindustan Unilever Ltd, as an independent director of Wipro, it is clear that the tech giant wants to strengthen its corporate governance practices.

BS People: M K Sharma

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