Tata Sons appoints Agrawala as president-Infra, defence

Tata Sons today announced the appointment of Banmali Agrawala as president- Infrastructure, Defence and Aerospace.

In his new role, Agrawala will report to the executive chairman N Chandrasekaran, the company said in a release issued here.

Agrawala will be taking up his new role effective October 1, 2017.

"The Tata group has a significant footprint in the infrastructure, defence and aerospace sectors. Agrawala's global experience in these industries will be very beneficial as we build scale and aspire for the next phase of growth," Chandrasekaran said.

Prior to this, Agrawala was the president and CEO of GE South Asia.

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Moglix adds former Oracle CFO Jeff Epstein in Advisory Board

Asia-based marketplace player Moglix, today said it has roped in Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and former CFO of Oracle Jeff Epstein in its Board of Advisors.

Epstein, who is based out of Bessemer's Menlo Park office in the US and leads the Venture's CFO Advisory Board, specialises in marketplaces, B2B SAAS and advertising technology companies, a release issued here said.

It is our privilege to have Jeff on board. He is an extremely valuable addition to our Board of Advisors and with his guidance our dream of disrupting the manufacturing space through innovative technology seems even more close to being achieved, Moglix Founder and CEO Rahul Garg said. --------------------

VFS Global acquires visa service provider TT Services

Outsourcing and technology services specialist VFS Globaltoday said it has completed the acquisition of UK-based visa service provider TT Services (TTS).

TT Services operates 51 application centres in more than 35 countries and has 216 employees.

It offers a full range of high quality visa services for its client governments, partners and applicants.

"TT Services has extended industry experience of more than 15 years and is a trusted service delivery partner for its clients. I see a strong fit by TTS joining VFS Global. This will enable us to further enhance and extend our services towards our client governments and visa applicants," VFS Global Group CEO of Zubin Karkaria said.