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Ogilvy Appoints Devika Bulchandani Global Chief Executive Officer

Advertising, marketing and public relations giant Ogilvy has appointed Devika Bulchandani as its Global Chief Executive Officer, joining a growing group of Indian-origin business leaders at the helm of multinational corporations. Devika most recently served as Global President and CEO of Ogilvy North America. She takes the helm from Andy Main who is stepping down as Global CEO and will serve as a Senior Advisor until the end of the year, the company announced on Wednesday. In this role she will be responsible for all aspects of the creative network's business across 131 offices in 93 countries and spanning its Advertising, Public Relations, Experience, Consulting, and Health units, the company said in a press release. Devika is a champion of creativity who brings passion, purpose, and an uncompromising focus on generating impact to everything she does. In partnership with Andy and Liz Taylor, she has been instrumental in Ogilvy's recent growth and development," Mark Read, CEO of WPP

Nadella, Pichai, Narasimhan: Indian-origin CEOs at the helm of American cos

With Laxman Narasimhan being appointed as the CEO of Starbucks, a new name has been added to the list of India-origin CEOs of American corporations

Reckitt CEO resign on personal grounds; Durante to hold fort in interim

"The chairman and the nomination committee have begun the process to identify the best long-term candidate to take Reckitt on the next phase of its growth and transformation journey," the company said

Djokovic's players' association appoints Ahmad Nassar as executive director

The tennis players' association founded by Novak Djokovic and Vasek Pospisil two years ago appointed former NFL Players Inc. president Ahmad Nassar as its executive director and the CEO of a new for-profit affiliate to generate off-court commercial opportunities. The Professional Tennis Players Association or PTPA announced the moves Thursday night, when the group held a meeting ahead of the start of the U.S. Open next week. The affiliate, Winners Alliance, will seek licensing agreements for video games, trading cards and collectibles. The PTPA also said it will start a program to help players get access to discounts for travel, among other things, and access to financial planners and support for discipline appeals. The group announced it has raised $26 million in funding. In addition to his time at NFL Players Inc., the marketing and licensing business of the NFL Players Association, Nassar was the founding CEO of OneTeam Partners, which supported the commercial interests of ..

CEO Parag Agrawal lashes out at ex-employee Zatko's claims about Twitter

Twitter's CEO Parag Agrawal has lashed out at the company's former head of security, Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko, saying his false claims are "riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies"

Engineering company Fabrication Bazar raises Rs 7 cr in seed round

Fabrication Bazar, which was founded in 2016 by Dwaipayan Dutta and Mohit Garg, has developed a cloud fabrication and tracking platform for manufacturing

Vodafone Idea's chief financial officer Akshaya Moondra named CEO

Takes over from Ravinder Takkar, whose three-year term ends on August 18

Ankiti Bose steps down from Zilingo board, was fired from firm in May

Bose was fired from the Singapore-based B2B e-commerce startup company on May 20 on grounds of financial irregularities

Sanjiv Mehta appointed as president commissioner of Unilever Indonesia

Sanjiv Mehta will join Unilever Indonesia's board of commissioners and chair it in a non-executive capacity

Invact Metaversity CEO Maheshwari steps down, will explore other avenues

The company has been in news as both the founders, Maheshwari and Tanay Pratap, had differences on how to run the firm

In search of CEO excellence

The theme of this book follows in the genre of several books like the Lessons of Excellence by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman - both also, coincidentally, McKinsey consultants

Equitas SFB MD & CEO P N Vasudevan announces decision to leave bank

The executive who founded the lender will continue in his post till a successor is found.

Tata Group picks New Zealander Campbell Wilson as Air India's new CEO

New Zealand-born Campbell Wilson, 50, started his career with Singapore Airlines in 1996

JM Financial elevates Sonia Dasgupta as CEO of investment banking

She succeeds Adi Patel and Atul Mehra who have been Co-Heads of Investment Banking business till date

Career banker Vishakha Mulye to be new CEO of Aditya Birla Capital

Incumbent Ajay Srivinasan shall take up another role within the Aditya Birla Group.

Indrani Bagchi appointed as CEO of Ananta Centre

Ananta Centre is a not-for-profit organisation that 'focuses on value-based leadership development and open dialogue on important issues facing Indian society, to help foster its transformation'

L&T appoints former Citibank India head Pramit Jhaveri as director

Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) has appointed former Chief Executive Officer of Citibank India Pramit Jhaveri as independent director. The board also approved the appointment of Jhaveri as an independent director of the company for a period of five years with effect from April 1, 2022, L&T said in a statement. He is also senior advisor to Premji Invest and PJT Partners and an independent director on the board of Bajaj Finance Limited. Prior to his current activities, he was Vice Chairman - Banking, Asia Pacific Citi. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Citibank India from 2010 to 2019.

Oyo rejigs top brass ahead of IPO, replaces CEO of India business

Kapoor, Tandon, and Gupta will take on their new responsibilities effective from April 1, 2022

Flipkart Health+ names former Apollo Health exec Prashant Jhaveri as CEO

Jhaveri also served as CEO of MediBuddy, and chief business officer for Medi Assist Group in earlier stints

Aviation sector veteran Sanjiv Kapoor appointed CEO of Jet Airways

Kapoor is currently the president of Oberoi Hotels and Resorts. Prior to joining the Oberoi group, he was the chief strategy and commercial officer at Vistara.