The recent opening up of the Telecom business has been very rewarding for the likes of Chandan.  Highly regarded Chandan Ghosh has moved from Airtel (VP and Chief of ILD) to Aircel (Head ILD, NLD & WiMax).  In a telecon with Chandan, he said that his stint at Airtel has been very rewarding and he has decided to move on since his new job provides a challenging assignment. More...

After the recent turbulence at the Barclays Bank India Process in Sparsh, a new Vice President has been recruited and has joined since the past week. Vijay Venkatesh, the Vice President of Sparsh BPO Services handling  the Barclays process in the West and South,  has begun the handover of the Barclays Process to the new Vice President Arindam More...

On June 25, Google made a public announcement about the appointment of Patrick Pichette as its new Chief Financial Officer and Senior VP.  Patrick, 45, will be joining the Google HQ in USA on August 12, 2008. How much will Google pay its CFO? According to Google documents filed with the American Government, Patrick’s annual base salary will be $450,000 and his discretionary target bonus percentage will be 150 percent of his annual base salary.  More...

Ashu Garg is one of the most respected and successful Indian executives in America.  An IIT and IIM alumni, he was General Manager with Microsoft’s On-Line Services business where he was responsible for Strategy and Business Management for the Digital Advertising P&L.  Recently, Ashu Garg has left Microsoft to join Trinity Ventures as executive-in-residence.  Trinity has more than 1 billion dollars under management and has invested in more than 100 ventures.  More...

Aegis BPO has appointed Ms. Rupashree Mukherjee as Senior Manager, Training, at their Ahmadabad Centre.   Rupashree has 12 years of experience of which half were spend in USA working in the Telecommunications and Health industries. More...

Convergys Corp is a $2.5 billion company with 66 thousand employees around the world - of which more than 10 thousand are in India.   The Indian operations are growing every year.  With such a large employee base, and the shortage of good managers in India, there is churn in every organization. More...

Hexaware Technologies is going places.  As part of their aggressive growth plans,  5 new campuses are planned.  The campus at Chennai would be completed next year with a capacity of more than 10 thousand people. More...

With the recent takeover of Mphasis by EDS, the original buzz was that EDS won’t interfere with the operations of Mphasis. The reason: latter having greater expertise in BPO’s.  Also, majority of the leadership was going to be the same. Not anymore. EDS has started making significant changes to the organization structure. More...

The President of RBU (Retail Business Unit) at VSNL, Shashi Kalathil has resigned. Whether he’s been asked to resign or he did on his own is unclear but the fact of the matter is that he has put in his papers alright. And this is the hottest topic of discussion at VSNL these days. More...