Logica Appoints Abhay Gupte as CEO
Logica has appointed Abhay Gupte, former MD of EDSs Indian Business, as CEO of Logicas operations in India. He brings with him a wealth of experience in running the offshore delivery operation of a global company. Gupte will take full control of the overall performance for Logicas offshore operations in India, manage all aspects of delivery and quality control, and take responsibility for the planned growth in headcount.

Gudalur Joins MphasiS as President, BPO

MphasiS, an EDS company, has announced that Cognizant executive Ramesh Gudalur has joined as president, BPO and a member of the Executive Leadership Team of the company. In his new role, Gudalur will lead BPO globally, developing aggressive strategies to boost growth, add differential value to clients, and deliver professional growth to associates. Gudalur, will report to Jeya Kumar, CEO.

Chopra to Head Windows Live Commercial

Microsoft India has announced the appointment of Rajneesh Chopra as director, Windows Live Commercial to spearhead Microsofts efforts around Windows Live in India. In his new role, Chopra will be responsible for driving the adoption of Windows Live in India. His focus will be on ramping up penetration of key Live Web services like Hotmail, MSN Messenger, Spaces, etc, especially in the commercial enterprise and partner space.

Hungama Makes Key Appointments

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Hungama, one of South Asias leading digital entertainment companies, has made three key senior appointments to strengthen its business operations in South Asia. Building the strategic re-alignment, the company has appointed Anand Jhingan as senior VP, International Mobile Business, Hungama Mobile, Hemant Jain as senior VP-Domestic Business of Hungama Mobile, and Manan Chhatrapati as chief technology officer (CTO). Anand Jhingan handles the entire operations of the international business at Hungama Mobile. Hemant Jain has taken charge of the domestic business.

F5 Appoints Signorelli as VP

F5 Networks, the global leader in application delivery networking, has announced the appointment of Joseph Signorelli to the newly created role of VP for Data Solutions in Asia Pacific and Japan. Signorelli will be responsible for driving sales of F5 Acopia Data Solutions across the region. He will be based in Tokyo and report directly to Christopher P Lynch, senior VP of Data Solutions for F5 Networks. In this role, he will support the broader efforts of Song Tang Yih, VP of Asia Pacific, and ensure the success of the F5 Acopia Data Solutions product portfolio in these regions.

Bharatee Appointed MD for Serenas India Operations

Serena Software has announced the appointment of Munindra Kumar Bharatee as managing director for its India operations. As Indias managing director, Bharatee will work closely with the Asia Pacific business leaders in driving the growth, channels, and the expansion of the companys market share in India. He will also initiate the channel development program in addition to Serena Softwares existing direct sales model and telesales operations.

Emerson Network Appoints Sandeep Gupta as VP, Finance
Emerson Network Power (India) has appointed Sandeep Gupta as VP, Finance. In his new role, Gupta will be responsible for financial management, budgets and accounting, and legal matters of the organization. He has been with Emerson for six years and in his last role, he was general manager (Product Management and Corporate Strategy).

Aamir is Samsungs Brand Ambassador

Samsung Telecommunications India (STI), a design and technology leader in the Indian mobile market, has announced the appointment of Aamir Khan as its Brand Ambassador for Samsung Mobile Phones in India. The company plans to leverage Aamir in its brand advertising as well as product advertising for mobile phones.

Robert Rando Joins Patni Systems
Patni Computer Systems has appointed Robert Rando as VP, Sales, in the Product Engineering Services (PES) practice. Rando will operate out of Patnis North American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and will lead Patnis business development efforts for high technology clients in the storage, computing, and networking sub-verticals. He has over two decades of sales experience, primarily in the storage industry. Earlier, he held senior management positions with Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, Data General/Clariion, 3PARdata, and, most recently, Open Text.

Sandeep Sibal Joins Qualcomm India

Sandeep Sibal has joined Qualcomm India as VP-Technology for India and South Asia. In this role, he is responsible for driving Qualcomms wireless technologies and solutions in the region. Additionally, Sibal drives the adoption of technology initiatives such as gpsOne, BREW, MediaFLO, and Mobile Commerce within the wireless ecosystem in the region. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Sibal held the position of technology advisor at Reliance Communications since its commercial launch. Before returning to India to join Reliance Communications, he was co-founder and chief technology officer of Kirusa, a company that pioneered and continues to be successful in multi-modal device user interfaces.

Ramnath Appointed MD of KINFRA
S Ramnath has been appointed MD of the Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (KINFRA). Ramnath, who has worked with the company since 1994, was most recently the MD of the KINFRA Film and Video Park in Thiruvananthapuram. He is a graduate in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He has over twenty years of experience in planning and business development in various capacities. He was also instrumental in planning and business development management techniques for the successful implementation of various theme-based industrial parks in the state.

Kielty Joins Infotech
Infotech Enterprises has announced the appointment of Don Kielty as VP-North America Sales in the manufacturing vertical. Apart from heading the manufacturing vertical for North America with overall sales, Kielty has mandate for marketing and business development. He joins Infotech after twenty-three years with IBM..

Swenson Joins Sage
The Sage Group has appointed Sue Swenson as president and CEO, Sage North America. Swenson has over twenty years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has managed periods of rapid growth and industry change. She will become a member of the companys Executive Management Committee.

RiskTech Appoints Lee as Apac Head
RiskTech has also appointed Sanjay Gupta to lead its North American business from its base in New York. Previously, Sanjay was with Ernst & Young (US) leading their credit risk analytics consulting initiative. The company has appointed Pat Medapa as global head of Operational Risk and GRC (governance, risk and compliance) Practice.

Gairola Wins Award
BK Gairola, director general of National Informatics Center, was recognized as Open Source Evangelist of the Year. The first of the annual The World is Open awards has been set up to recognize the most impactful open source technology implementations in the country. The awards received 163 nominations and the winners included 24 open source technology projects implemented across the country.

Katrina, Shahrukh Rule Mobile Content

Shahrukh Khan and Katrina Kaif are officially the King and Queen of mobile content, according to a new research. With Bollywoods popularity at an all time high, IMImobile commissioned a study to find which movie stars are as popular on the mobile screen as they are on the big screen. Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar and Sanjay Dutt all make up the male Top 5 most downloaded movie star in terms of mobile content. Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta and Aishwarya all feature in the Top 5 of the female category.

Rolta Strengthens its Top Management Team

Rolta announced the appointment of Preetha Pulusani as joint managing director of the company. Her appointment will further strengthen the organization and help accelerate the companys planned growth, with the increasing scale of Roltas operations both in the domestic and international markets.

NHRD Appoints Kalive as President

The National Human Resource Development (NHRD) Network has announced the appointment of Prameela Kalive as president of its Pune Chapter. Prameela is the global HR head of Zensar Technologies, a leading global software services and BPO provider headquartered in Pune.

TAKE Solutions Appoints Ravishankar as Director

TAKE Solutions, a leading international business technology company with products backed by a strong domain expertise in life sciences and supply chain management, has announced the appointment of R Ravishankar as executive director, Asia-Pacific and Emerging Markets. Ravishankar has fourteen years of cumulative experience in delivery, sales and operational leadership, organization transformation and modeling, and business finance.

Abhishek Nayyar Bags Golden Cursor Award
Abhishek Nayyar has bagged The Golden Cursor Animation Award for The Return of Hanuman in the Best Animated Feature Film category. CNBC-TV18, along with Arena Animation, presented The Golden Cursor Animation Awards powered by Animation Xpress.com in Mumbai. The Golden Cursor Animation Awards is a path breaking initiative that has been conceptualized with the objective of enhancing and shaping the future of the Indian animation industry.

Narayanan Joins Yahoo! India
Yahoo! India has appointed Ram Narayanan as vice president, Product Management, Marketing Products Division (MPD). Narayanan joins Yahoo! India from Microsoft India. Based out of Bangalore, he will report locally to Sharad Sharma, CEO, Yahoo! India Research & Development and functionally to Mark Morrissey, SVP, Product Management, MPD, Yahoo!

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