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Tulip Names New CFO

Tulip Telecom has announced the appointment of Sanjay Jain as its chief
financial officer. In this new role, he will be responsible for financial and
operational functions within the organization, according to the companys
corporate filing. Prior to this, Sanjay has worked with leading industrial
houses like Eicher Group, Avantha Group, and Essel Group. He has replaced Dinesh
Kaushal, former CFO at Tulip Telecom.

Indian Shares Nobel

Three scientists, including an India-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, shared the
2009 Nobel Prize for chemistry for showing how ribosome functions. The others
are American scientist Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath, who would share the
prize worth $1.4 mn. Their research shows how the ribosome, which produces
protein, functions at the atomic level. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, born in
Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, is a scientist at the Medical Research Councils
prestigious Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

Kurtz is McAfee CTO

McAfee Inc.has announced the appointment of George Kurtz as executive vice
president and worldwide chief technology officer (CTO). Kurtz would be
responsible for creating and leading McAfees office of the CTO and driving
product innovation. He will continue to report to Dave DeWalt, president and
chief executive officer, McAfee.

Singh to Head Online Sales at BIG

Indian entertainment conglomerate Reliance BIG Entertainment has announced
the appointment of Anand Singh as the head, online sales for BIG Online Network.
BIG Online is a digital network, which includes BIGFlix.com, BIGADDA.com,
Zapak.com and BIGOYE.com. Anand Singh will be responsible for driving strategic
online sales and bringing in advertising clients across sectors.

Macleod National CEO

National Semiconductor has announced that Brian L Halla will retire as chief
executive officer effective November 30, 2009. Halla will remain executive
chairman of the company. He will be succeeded by Donald (Don) Macleod, who will
become the companys president and chief executive officer (CEO) and be
appointed to its Board of Directors, effective November 30, 2009. Macleod
currently serves as Nationals president and COO.

Country Manager for WD

WD, a provider of storage services, has announced the appointment of Sushil
Bandi as country manager for the Indian subcontinent. Bandi would report to
Sharad Srivastava, director sales, India and South Asia, and would be
responsible for spearheading the overall sales, marketing and customer support
function for the company in the subcontinent.Sushil has over twenty years of
experience in sales, marketing and distribution of IT products globally with
specific coverage of Asian and European markets.

Hungama Mobile Hires New COO

Hungama Digital Media has appointed Albert Almeida as chief operating officer
for its mobile business. Most recently served as EVP and business head of Sony
Entertainment Television, Almeida will be responsible for Hungamas domestic and
international mobile business covering entertainment, platforms and applications
businesses. Prior to Sony, Almeida has spent fourteen years in advertising and
marketing.

Fake Sushmita Begs Online!

A Sushmita Sen impersonator on the social networking site, Facebook, has started
asking for money in her name for charity. After being inundated by anxious
queries from friends, the Bollywood actress has clarified that she is not the
one asking for money. Its not a game. For this gentleman or lady, charity
obviously begins and ends at home. My impersonator has even opened an account,
www.sushmita-sen.com, where charitable Facebook participants can donate money,
said Sen.

Chauhan Quits Nortel

Dhananjay Ganjoo, vice president for enterprise networks in Nortel Asia,, had
moved recently to Microsoft. This comes after the recent acquisition of Nortels
enterprise solutions business by Avaya, following which several of the companys
executives based in India are moving out. Ravi Chauhan, who has been the
companys global head for communications enabled business solutions since March
2008, is moving to Juniper Networks as its MD.

Chandrasekaran Succeeds Ramadorai

N Chandrasekaran has assumed the role of chief executive officer and managing
director at TCS. Chandrasekaran, previously chief operating officer and
executive director, takes over from S Ramadorai, who is stepping down from the
executive role to take the position of non-executive vice chairman.

Rachapudi TAKEs New Role

Kishore Rachapudi, former SVP & head, healthcare & life Sciences with Satyam
Computer Services, has joined TAKE Solutions as president & COO. Rachapudi
brings along twelve years experience at Satyam Computer Services, where he led
a team of 1,500. He was instrumental in creating the vision and building the
healthcare and life sciences practice from the scratch.

Dutt Quits Samsungfor HP

Samsung country head, Sunil Dutt, has quit the company to join the Personal
Systems Group of Hewlett Packard. Dutt will replace Ravi Swaminathan, president,
HP India, Personal Systems Group. He would be reporting to HP managing director,
Neelam Dhawan. As Samsung country head, Dutt was responsible for spearheading
sales and marketing for both Samsung GSM and CDMA mobile business in the
country.

3i Infotech Names IT Head

3i Infotech has announced the appointment of Som Sarma as the global IT services
head. He would be based in London and would be responsible for expanding the
global services business portfolio at 3i Infotech. Prior, Sarma worked with
Satyam (now Mahindra Satyam) as senior vice president and head (UK & Ireland).

Invensys Gets New Leaders

Dr Ravi Gopinath and Teemu Tunkelo have joined Invensysa global provider of
technology systems, solutions and services to process and manufacturing
industriesas regional presidents for APAC and EURA, respectively. Tunkelo has a
strong background in a variety of software and systems integration roles for
top-tier companiesNokia, Compaq, etc. Gopinath started his career with TCS,
where he primarily built and led the global engineering and industrial services
business.

Freescale Hires New Country Manager

Freescale Semiconductor has announced the appointment of Vivek Tyagi as country
manager, sales for its India operations. In this role, Tyagi will lead the India
sales team to drive business growth in the country. Tyagi has nearly two
decades experience in distribution, sales and customer relations functions. He
joined Freescale Semiconductor India (earlier Motorola Semiconductor) in 1997.
Prior, he worked with Philips Semiconductors.

Huawei names Bross as CTO

Huawei has announced the appointment of Matt Bross, as the chief technology
officer. In this role, Bross would focus on identifying global
telecommunications industry and network architecture trends that will guide
Huaweis innovation of products and solutions. Most recently, Bross was group
chief technology officer of BT Group and CEO of BT Innovate.

Avaya Names Channels Director

Avaya has appointed Bejoy Antony as the new director, channels and strategic
alliances, for its India operations. He will be responsible for leading Avayas
channel strategy and go-to-market initiatives across India and the SAARC region.
Prior to Avaya, Antony was vice president, channels, Cisco Systems and held
diverse strategic and leadership sales roles in Cisco over nine years.

Obopay Names Nagaraja as EVP

Obopay has appointed Dilip Nagaraja as its executive vice president of global
engineering, based out of Obopays operations center in Bengaluru. Nagaraja
would be responsible for optimizing the global engineering organization across
all Obopay offices. Prior to Obopay, Nagaraja led the global product engineering
efforts for Intuits accountant products division. Also, he held senior
leadership positions in engineering organizations such as Pivotal Corporation,
etc.

Panda Heads ITeS in L&T

Dr Keshab Panda, one of the top executives to quit Mahindra Satyam, has joined
the L&T Group as CEO of its engineering and ITeS entity. Dr Panda has been given
a target of growing the entity into a $500 mn firm in the next three years. At
Mahindra Satyam, Panda was heading the large markets of the US and manufacturing
and oil and gas.