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Ramji Leaves Microsoft

Open Source Guru, Sam Ramji, the senior director of platform strategy of Microsoft, has announced to quit Microsoft and join a cloud computing start-up, CodePlex Foundation. CodePlex is a developer community infrastructure hosted by Microsoft on behalf of open source developers.

Mindteck Names New CFO

Mindteck, a provider of IT services, has announced the appointment of Suresh Rao as group chief financial officer. In his new role, Rao would head the budgeting, financial reporting, accounting, and audits at global level for the company. He would also be in-charge of overall operation of Mindtecks offices in India. Rao comes with twenty-one years of experience, and his strengths are corporate finance, global accounting and forming strategies for overall growth of businesses.

HCL Security Hires New CEO

HCL Security, a subsidiary of HCL Infosystems, has announced the appointment of Rothin Bhattacharyya as its new chief executive officer. Bhattacharyya a senior business leader, with over twenty-four years of management experience, is a thought leader in technology and services sector.

He has worked with Siemens and KPMG in his prior assignments.

Hitchcock Joins Symphony as VP
Symphony Services has announced the appointment of John Hitchcock as VP, marketing. Hitchcock would be responsible for expanding the companys brand, driving marketing and communications strategy. Earlier, he held marketing leadership roles at product engineering services company GlobalLogic, and ClearCube Technology.

Capgemini Names VP for North America

Capgemini, a provider of IT and BPO services, has announced the appointment of Douglas Charles as vice president of market development and sales officer for its technology services division in North America. Charles would develop and lead the business units market development and sales strategy.

Charles has earlier worked for Capgemini, and most recently worked for SAIC as general manager of the commercial business unit.

Animated Aamir and SRK

Mumbai based Pixions TVC wing has recently delivered two separate commercials, one for Coke featuring Aamir Khan, and another for Videocon with Shahrukh Khan. The fifty-five second TVC for Coca Cola features 3D animated Aamir Khan in a game character avatar while the forty-five second commercial of Videocon flaunts particle effects around Shahrukh Khan.

KPMG Appoints IT Head

KPMGs global head of sourcing advisory has been appointed as the national head of IT advisory in India. Kumar Parakala shall hold this dual charge and will now be based in India. He is a member of the executive council and Board for the IT advisory business of KPMG globally that represents over 400 partners and 7,000 staff.

SenGupta Joins Globsyn

Globsyn Group has roped in Utpal SenGupta, formerly of Unilever and ConAgra, as the group management advisor and member governing council for Globsyn Business School. Close on the heels of the appointment of ex-SEBI director, Pratip Kar, the presence of SenGupta at the Globsyn Group will help in engaging itself in a new growth path. Earlier, SenGupta worked for the consumer products giant, Unilever, in India and abroad for twenty-four years.

Creative Appoints Ernest Sim
Creative Technology has announced the appointment of Ernest Sim as regional sales manager for its Indian subcontinent operations. In his new role, Sim will spearhead the overall sales function, along with handling the marketing role for India. Sim joined Creative in 2002 as product marketing engineer of PC peripherals, and was later posted in the USA as product manager.

Ex-Samsung Chairman Pays Fine

Lee, a former head of South Koreas biggest group, Samsung, has paid a fine of more than 110 bn won in a single installment. Last month, Lee was given a three-year prison term, suspended for five years, and ordered to pay the fine for masterminding illegal bond transactions between his children and a Samsung subsidiary, Samsung SDS. The exercise was aimed at transferring management control of the group to his only son, Lee Jae-Yong.

Skype Founders Sue eBay

The founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, have sued eBay and an investor group that agreed to buy the Webphone service, accusing them of copyright violation and potentially disrupting the $1.9 bn deal. The lawsuit brought by a Swedish firm, Joltid, seeks a permanent injunction against Skype and damages. However, eBay has denied the allegations.

Rao Wins Award
Dr Mukund Rao, president and COO of NIIT GIS, has been honored with the National Geo-Spatial Excellence Award by the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS). This is in acknowledgment of Dr Raos extensive contributions to the Indian community in remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS). NIIT GIS has been at the forefront of GIS in India, and offers a wide range of GIS solutions based on ESRI technology worldwide to help governments and public undertakings leverage GIS.

CSS Ropes In New CEO

Chennai based Cybernet-SlashSupport (CSS) has appointed Sreenidhi Sharma, better known in the industry as Nick Sharma, as the new CEO. In his previous engagement, Nick headed the infrastructure management services (IMS) business at Satyam and was an executive member of the organizations Leadership Council providing strategic direction and was accountable for all client relationships, sales and marketing, delivery and operations of the firm in the infrastructure services space.

Chrapaty Quits Microsoft

Debra Chrapaty, vice president of global foundation services, Microsofts data center operations, is leaving the company for a product role at Cisco. Chrapaty is among the top executives of Microsoftjust fourteen of the companys 131 top executives are women. Before joining Microsoft, she worked at ETrade, AllBusiness, and the National Basketball Association, where she served as chief technology officer.

Fired for Adult Chat Room Visit
A former employee with the IBM, who was fired for visiting an adult chat room while at work, is appealing a court decision against him. The sixty-year-old James Pacenza has claimed that combat stress from Vietnam made him a sex-and-Internet addict who should have been treated, not dismissed.

Ambastha VMware Director

Shrimathi Ambastha Seema has joined VMware India as director of technology. In her new role, she is responsible for VMwares pre-sales operations in India. Seema brings more than nearly two decades of IT industry experience in support and pre-sales in India and APAC. Prior, she worked with Oracle Asia Pacific as director of technology and business intelligence & warehouse solutions, leading a team of architects supporting large and strategic sales engagements in India and APAC.

Nielsen India Appoints Ranade
The Nielsen Company, India has announced the appointment of Sandeep Ranade as director, client solutions, consumer research. He will be based out of Mumbai and will focus on partnering with consumer packaged goods (CPG) clients. Ranade brings with him fourteen years of experience in market research and media planning. Prior to joining Nielsen, he was associated with Heinz India as senior manager, market research & media planning. Over the last decade, Ranade has been associated with Subhiksha Trading Services, TNS India, among others.

Nadar is Business Person of the Year
The UK Trade & Investment has conferred Shiv Nadar, founder, HCL and chairman & chief strategy officer, HCL Technologies with the prestigious Business Person of the Year Award for 2009. The award was presented by the UK Minister for Trade, Investment & Business, Lord Mervyn Davies in the presence of the British High Commissioner in India, Richard Stagg. The award is for Nadars direction in establishing HCL as a leading global technology player.

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