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Ramadorai Bags CBE

S Ramadorai, CEO and managing director, Tata Consultancy Services, has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to Indo-British economic relations. The award was conferred on Ramadorai in Mumbai by the British deputy high commissioner, Western India, Mrs Vicki Treadell. The CBE is conferred as an acknowledgement of an individuals exceptional contribution in their field. Ramadorai has been instrumental since taking over as CEO in 1996 in transforming TCS into a $6 bn global software company with a geographical reach across forty-two countries.

NetApp Gets Janey
NetApp India has appointed Rajesh Janey as president, India and SAARC sales. In his new role, Janey is responsible for accelerating sales and market development, as well as channel development for NetApp across India and SAARC. He joins NetApp from EMC where he was vice president, enterprise business, India and SAARC.

Bekay Back in Microland
Microland, a provider in IT infrastructure management services, has appointed Jawahar Bekay as executive director and COO of the company. Jawahar Bekay, a co-founding member of Microland returns to the company after seven years. Prior to rejoining Microland, Bekay was associated with Collabera, a $300 mn US IT services firm as their chief strategy officer and CEO of their Indian entity.

Sunil Joins Symbiotic
Chennai-based Symbiotic InfoTech has appointed Sunil Kumar as their new chief executive officer. Sunil will be a part of the senior management and will be responsible for building the Symbiotic brand globally. He will also be closely involved in developing and implementing company strategies including taking new products and solutions to market, making business plan, understanding the market and competitors, and other HR activities.

Krakovsky Joins SuccessFactors
SuccessFactors, an on-demand performance and talent management solutions company has named former Yahoo! executive Dmitri Krakovsky as vice president of product management. Krakovsky joins SuccessFactors from Yahoo!, where he was recently vice president of business and marketplace operations, and sponsored search. Previously, Krakovsky held positions of vice president for Yahoo!s advertiser and publisher group and small business services. Before joining Yahoo! in 2005, Krakovsky spent five years at Intuit where he led the product management team for small-business accounting software, QuickBooks.

Aztecsoft CEO, COO Resign

Aztecsoft, a provider of global software engineering services and a MindTree company, has announced that its chief executive officer Samir Bodas, has resigned from the company. Bodas is also relieved from his official duties as director. Srinivasan Chandrasekar, chief operating officer, Aztecsoft, has also resigned from the company. Before joining Aztecsoft, Chandrasekar was the senior vice president of products at SumTotal Systems, where he was responsible for integrating diverse product suites of Click2learn and Docent.

Yamada is CEO for Toshiba America
Toshiba America Business Solutions have appointed Masahiro Yamada as their new chairman and chief executive officer. Yamada will be responsible for the overall management of the company in close partnership with Mark Mathews, president and chief operating officer, TABS. Yamadas specific focus will be on the development and deployment of business policy and strategy, supporting the coordination of all aspects of TABS relationship with Toshiba TEC in Tokyo.

Britney Beats Obama
American pop icon Britney Jean Spears has topped this years Yahoo! list of UKs 10 most searched-for subjects. The search list shows that despite passing through a turbulent phase and legal hassles, the star value of Britney is as intact as ever. Be it her troubled private life, which involved a child custody battle with her ex-husband, Kevin Federline stays in rehabilitation centers, trouble with the law, confrontations with the paparazzi, or the sensational new album, the netizens are keen about every moment of her life. Britney had topped the list last year too, for a wrong reason though. While World Wrestling Entertainment has come second, Obama is third in the list. However, he is the most searched-for politician during 2008.

Breyer on Dell Board

Dell has appointed James W Breyer to its board of directors. In accordance with the companys Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws, Dell increased the size of the board from eleven to twelve, effective April 9, 2009. Breyer will serve on the board until the next annual meeting of stockholders, scheduled for July 17, 2009, at which time his continued service will be subject to renomination and stockholder approval.

InterGlobe Appoints Michael Whitaker
InterGlobe Enterprises has appointed Michael Whitaker as group chief executive Ooficerof its travel, technology and general aviation services. Whitaker, 47, joins InterGlobe from United Airlines in Chicago, where he currently serves as senior vice president, alliances, international and regulatory affairs and for the past fifteen years, has led the global expansion of Uniteds international route and alliance network.

Monster Names Sanjay Modi as MD
Monster, a provider in online careers and recruitment resource, has announced the appointment of Sanjay Modi as managing director for India, the Middle East and South East Asia. Prior to this assignment, Modi was the companys head of sales, India. Before joining Monster in 2001, Modi served at Indiaconstruction.com as the general manager of operations, and in business roles at NIIT and Ingersoll Rand India.

Russakow Joins Yahoo

Yahoo! has appointed Jeff Russakow as senior vice president of customer advocacy. Russakow will have global responsibility for all of Yahoo!s customer support functions, including audience, small business, ad operations and search network quality. Russakow will report to Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz.

Neeraj Roy is Top Mobile Personality

Neeraj Roy, MD & CEO, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment has been nominated as one of the Top Ten mobiThinkers of 2009. by mobiThinking.com. Under Roys guidance Hungama Mobile has conceived and executed more than 1,000 successful mobile marketing campaigns for over 300 brands that include Coca Cola, Unilever, Nike, Dove, Cadburys and ICICI bank.

Oprah on Twitter
Oprah Winfrey, one of the worlds most powerful celebrities, has faced a web backlash after becoming the latest star to join Twitter. The American talk show host sent her first tweet on April 17 and has already amassed more than 350,000 followers. But users of the microblogging community have blamed her popularity for causing the site to slow down. Some estimates suggest hundreds of thousands new users may have joined Twitter after Winfrey promoted it on her TV show.

McCartney Lambasts Pirate Bay
Singer Paul McCartney has voiced his support for the verdict rendered in The Pirate Bay trial, where four men have been charged for copyright infringement. A court in Stockholm sentenced each to a year in jail and fined the group the equivalent of $3.6 mn. On Thepiratebay.org, a blog post indicated that the men have filed an appeal. Fans of The Pirate Bay have condemned the verdict as many in the entertainment industry celebrated the decision.

Excellence Award for CyberMedia

Amity International Business School and Amity Global Business School have honored CyberMedia with the Media Excellence Award. This award was conferred to the company at the 11th INBUSH 2009. The award was given to the company as the Best Information Communication & Technology Publications. The citation reads: For having achieved the enviable position of one of the best and most admired media organizations of the country with its unparalleled performance. It is also a matter of great pride that the company rather than resting on its past laurels keeps pushing itself to achieve greater heights and has set benchmarks of excellence for others to emulate.

Blairs Facebook Hacked

Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blairs profile on the popular social networking site Facebook has been hacked by netizens who have hurled online abuses at him and his wife Cherie. Users have launched personal attacks on his Facebook profile, set up to promote The Tony Blair Faith Foundation. The charity can be accessed on Facebook via a link from the charitys official website and is meant to promote understanding of the worlds religions. But, it is instead dominated by abusive messages against Blairs.

Dhir Quits AOL
The AOL India managing director and international executive vice president in Asia, Europe and the Americas, Maneesh Dhir, has put in his papers and is likely to pursue an entrepreneurial career. Dhir, who was with AOL for almost ten years, had played a key role in establishing and launching AOLs operations in Bangalore. AOL currently runs an India-specific portal from Bangalore, where it also has a technology center and analytics operations employing close to 1,000 people.

DeWolfe Quits MySpace
MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe is stepping down as chief executive of the company before the end of his contract. Parent company News Corp said DeWolfe was leaving by mutual consent. Nonetheless, his exit comes as the media giants newly installed chief digital officer, Jon Miller, undertook an evaluation of MySpace and concluded that it was time to bring in new management to oversee the social network.

Visa Appoints Uttam Nayak
Visa announced that Uttam Nayak has been appointed as the country manager for South Asia. In his new role, Uttam will be responsible for building Visas brand and business in south Asia which includes India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal, with a focus toward building client relationships, growing business volumes and sales of Visa branded products and services. Nayak was previously the country manager of India. He succeeds Santanu Mukherjee, who was recently appointed Visas regional head of innovation and technology and is now based in Singapore.

Satyen Parikh Joins F5 Networks
F5 Networks, the global leader in application delivery networking, has announced the appointment of Satyen H Parikh as managing director, for the newly established India and SAARC region.

The establishment of the new region follows significant achievement in the Indian market with new wins in ITES and BFSI markets building on an established presence in manufacturing, telecommunications and automotive industries.

Nilekani to Speak at Yale University
Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman Infosys Technologies, will address Yale University on May 1, 2009. Nilekanis talk, India at the Crossroads: The Road Ahead, is hosted by the South Asian Society, the South Asian Business Forum of the Yale School of Management, the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, and the South Asian Studies Council at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

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