New CIO appointments in India, 2022

With an increasing number of corporations enterprise the journey of digital transformation, the position of the CIO has turn out to be important. The elevated demand for skilled IT leaders has made the house extraordinarily dynamic. CIO India is right here with a recurrently up to date checklist of the newest CIO actions throughout the nation. Write to us when you’ve got information to share.

February 2022

Net Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT

Kamal Goel has migrated from one information centre operator to a different. Now director of IT and chief evangelist at Net Werks India, he was beforehand govt vice-president of IT and chief evangelist at Yotta Infrastructure.

Earlier than that he labored in quite a lot of different roles in IT infrastructure and information centre planning and administration.

Net Werks operates Tier-III information centres, in Mumbai, Pune and Delhi, with plans to open others in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai.

Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO

Roopesh Pujari

Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at advertising and marketing and promoting agency Publicis Groupe India. He joined Publicis Media in 2019. In his new position, Pujari will steer improvement of the corporate’s expertise capabilities in India, together with enlargement of cloud options, platform integration, functionality and capability constructing, and streamlining companions.

Pujari has over 25 years of expertise throughout sectors together with BFSI, manufacturing, consulting, publishing, airways, and healthcare. He labored in organizations in India and the US and has wealthy expertise in hiring and ramping up groups in each international locations.

January 2022

Prashant Thakur joins Vakrangee as head of tech and digital

Prashant Thakur

Vakrangee, a Mumbai-based supplier of banking and e-governance providers, has appointed Prashanth Thakur as senior vp and head of expertise and digital. At Vakrangee, he will likely be accountable for managing the expertise stack, automation, tech operations and digitization of key companies within the group.

Thakur joins from HDFC Life the place he was an assistant vp accountable for managing expertise associated to digital servicing and automation, and earlier than that labored at Reliance Jio and in quite a lot of consulting roles. He brings experience in creating IT technique, digital transformation, AI engineering, course of optimization and operations.

December 2021

Airtel CISO Manish Tiwari joins Fractal as CIO

Fractal Analytics has appointed Manish Tiwari as its CIO. He will likely be based mostly in Gurugram. At Fractal, Tiwari will likely be accountable for the corporate’s digital transformation and overseeing IT operations, cybersecurity, and threat administration.   

Previous to becoming a member of Fractal, Tiwari was senior vice-president and international CISO at Airtel, the place he arrange the managed safety providers initiative Airtel Safe for Enterprise. Earlier than that, he was the chief info safety advisor at Microsoft India. 

A licensed lead auditor, hacking forensic investigator, and safety analyst, Tiwari is an IT veteran from the Indian Navy the place he arrange the data safety and incident response group, together with the formulation of coverage frameworks, safety audits, product testing, cyber forensics, and threat administration. 

Rossari Biotech appoints Rakesh Dhanda as CIO

Rakesh Dhanda has joined chemical producer Rossari Biotech as CIO. Based mostly in Mumbai, Dhanda will oversee IT and digital capabilities for the corporate. He may even plan and implement the corporate’s IT and digital technique.

Dhanda has over 20 years’ expertise in IT operations and digital transformation. In his earlier position at L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, he was the top of digital transformation (CDO), the place he was accountable for the formulation of digitalization technique for all enterprise models and implementing digital options. 

Milind Kulkarni joins Yotta as chief expertise officer

Yotta Infrastructure has named Milind Kulkarni as its CTO and head of IT operations and engineering. An IT veteran with over 26 years’ expertise, he has led IT operations, mission planning and designing throughout IT, ITeS, and IT managed providers domains.

At Yotta, Kulkarni will likely be accountable for spearheading information centre IT operations and engineering. Beforehand, he led the design, planning, implementation and supply of IT managed providers, cloud and safety providers, information centre and catastrophe restoration providers at NTT. He has additionally labored with Reliance Communications, World Tele-Programs, Mahindra Consulting, and Microtech Software program and Consultants.

November 2021

Hemal Savla joins RR Kabel as CIO

Hemal Savla

Hemal Savla has taken up the publish of CIO at RR Kabel, a division of the commercial conglomerate RR World.

Savla’s most up-to-date place was as head of the worldwide supply centre for US development agency Katerra. Earlier than that he was affiliate VP of IT for Godrej Client Merchandise and senior IT supervisor at Johnson & Johnson Medical and at Philips Electronics India.

He’s an alumnus of the College of Mumbai. 

September 2021

SBI Mutual Fund names Shiju Rawther head of IT

Shiju Rawther has joined SBI Mutual Funds as head of IT. He was beforehand chief info and expertise officer at CARE Rankings. He has 13 years’ expertise in finance IT, with a give attention to cybersecurity.

Shiju holds a bachelor’s diploma in laptop science and engineering from Bangalore College and a grasp’s diploma in info administration from Mumbai College.

Gaurav Sharma turns into group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp

Poonawalla Fincorp

Poonawalla Fincorp, beforehand Magma Fincorp, has named Gaurav Sharma as its group CTO. He’ll lead expertise initiatives for the Poonawalla group in its quest to construct a world-class digital technology-based platform for monetary providers.

Gaurav is an alumnus of IIT Roorkee, with over 25 years’ expertise in driving transformation throughout numerous {industry} domains.

He was CTO at L&T Monetary Companies earlier than becoming a member of Poonawalla.

Satellite tv for pc comms supplier Skylo hires Jai Menon as CIO

Jai Menon has joined Skylo, a narrow-band satellite tv for pc communications supplier that targets IoT functions, as CIO. He’ll run the corporate’s ERP and order administration techniques, and handle IT help, enterprise and operations help techniques, networking, and safety.

He held IT management positions at IBM and at telcos around the globe earlier than returning to India and a CTO position at HT Media. Since then, he has labored in startups and consulting. He’s an alumnus of IIT Delhi.

August 2021

Jubilant FoodWorks hires Ekhlaque Bari as CIO

Ekhlaque Bari, former EVP and chief expertise officer at Fullerton India, has joined Jubilant FoodWorks as chief info officer. He will likely be based mostly in Gurugram, reporting to CEO Pratik Pota, and can have duty for all of the digital transformation initiatives at Jubilant FoodWorks.

A former CIO100 India winner, Bari has additionally beforehand held management roles at Max Life Insurance coverage, HT Media, and SBI Card.

Rahul Khona turns into IT head at Nexus Malls

Rahul Khona has been appointed head of data expertise at Nexus Malls, the operator of 16 malls with nearly 10 million sq. ft of retail house throughout India.

Based mostly in Mumbai, he can have duty for IT technique and innovation.

Khona has extra 17 years of expertise throughout retail, telecommunications, and banking. An alumnus of IIMT Bangalore, he beforehand led IT at McDonalds India, Reliance Manufacturers, and Starbucks India.

Sure Financial institution appoints Mahesh Ramamoorthy as CIO

Mahesh Ramamoorthy has changed Anup Purohit as CIO at Sure Financial institution. Purohit stepped down from the place in June.

In his new position, Ramamoorthy will lead expertise and digital transformation for the financial institution, in addition to be accountable for trendy applied sciences equivalent to APIs, AI and machine studying, and enterprise intelligence.

Ramamoorthy has greater than 30 years of expertise within the BFSI expertise house. He was beforehand senior VP of funds (worldwide) at FIS, the place he led the monetary expertise supplier for Europe, Asia-Pacific, Center East, and Africa. He has additionally held management positions at Barclays Financial institution, Kotak Mahindra Financial institution, Aviva, DCB Financial institution, IDBI Financial institution, and Commonplace Chartered Financial institution.

Pankaj Khare joins Pine Labs as head of IT

Pine Labs has employed Pankaj Khare as head of data expertise. Khare will likely be based mostly in Noida. The appointment was made in January however introduced in August.

Khare was the previous CIO at DMI, the place he spearheaded the digital transformation effort. Previous to that he was the CIO at GoAir. He has held management place at Sterlite Energy, IndiGo, and HCL.

July 2021

Capri World Capital appoints Rahul Agarwal as CTO

Rahul Agarwal has joined Capri World Capital, a monetary firm specialising in small enterprise and residential loans, as chief expertise officer. He will likely be heading expertise capabilities and digital transformation throughout the corporate.

Agarwal has years’ expertise in software program engineering and expertise management roles. Most not too long ago, he was group CTO at Aakash Instructional Companies the place he developed capabilities in-house for sooner and sustainable development. He has additionally held CTO roles at Coverage Bazaar and Lava Worldwide, and led engineering at IndiaHomes.com and Tyroo Media, and Vriti Infocom.

Aan Chauhan joins Mindtree as CTO

Aan S Chauhan has been named CTO of Mindtree simply a few weeks after Mindtree acquired one other firm of which he was CTO, L&T subsidiary NxT Digital Enterprise. He has greater than 26 years’ expertise in IT, together with 14 years at Cognizant the place he was additionally CTO.

Chauhan has constructed world class technological merchandise for monetary providers, capital markets, insurance coverage, manufacturing, healthcare, e-commerce, retail, and expertise sectors. He’s an alumnus of IIT Kanpur.

Upstox names Thippesha Dyamappa CTO

Upstox

Indian funding platform Upstox has appointed a Thippesha Dyamappa as its chief expertise officer.

Dyamappa was beforehand director of software program improvement for worldwide retail at Amazon.com, and his worldwide expertise heralds Upstox’s enlargement into international markets.

He has over 20 years of software program engineering expertise within the on-line retail, transport and journey industries, predominantly in India and the U.S.

Daimler India Business Automobiles transforms CIO position

Daimler India Business Automobiles

Chulanga Perera has taken on two new roles at Daimler India Business Automobiles, as chief transformation officer and head of technique. He’ll proceed as CIO too, till his alternative is introduced.

He’ll lead a group of round 40 employees within the firm’s transformation administration workplace to steer the corporate’s digital transformation, drive synergies, improve customer support and scale enterprise choices.

Akums India appoints Sanjay Verma as group CIO

Sanjay Verma has joined Akums India as group CIO, reporting to managing director Sandeep Jain.

Beforehand, Verma was CIO at Somany Ceramic, and he has additionally held management positions at JK Lakshmi Cement. In his 20 years’ expertise in IT, Verma has led work on safety, threat compliance, IoT, RPA, cloud, and enterprise continuity planning. He was a recipient of a 2016 CIO100 India award.

Gururaj Rao strikes to Aditya Birla Well being Insurance coverage

IDG

Gururaj Rao has joined Aditya Birla Well being Insurance coverage as govt vice-president and chief expertise officer. He’s a former CIO100 India award winner.

Rao was beforehand vice-president and CIO at Mahindra & Mahindra Monetary Companies (MMFSL) the place he labored for 10 years. At MMFSL he was accountable for IT throughout all of the non-banking monetary providers enterprise together with retail mortgage and SME company loans. He has over 20 years of expertise within the BFSI sector and has held management positions at ICICI Financial institution and Birla Solar Life Insurance coverage.

Rahul Bhardwaj returns to Fullerton as CIO

Rahul Bhardwaj has re-joined Fullerton India Credit score Co., this time as chief info officer and head of operations and customer support. Based mostly in Mumbai, Bhardwaj will report back to chief working officer Pavan Kaushal.

That is Bhardwaj’s second stint on the monetary providers firm. Over an 11-year span he held a succession of management positions there in expertise, operations, and buyer providers, taking part in a key position within the design and implementation of the corporate’s first full suite of expertise functions. In 2017 he left to turn out to be a senior vp at Reliance Cost Companies.

Bhardwaj has over 20 years of expertise in IT. He’s an alumnus of Delhi Faculty of Engineering and holds a postgraduate diploma in enterprise administration from IIM Bangalore.

June 2021

Snapdeal appoints Girish Koppad as head of expertise

Snapdeal

E-commerce firm Snapdeal has appointed Girish Koppad as vp and head of expertise. Based mostly in Gurgaon, Koppad will likely be reporting to Kunal Bahl, co-founder and CEO. At Snapdeal, Koppad will lead expertise engineering and can spearhead improvement and providers for expertise infrastructure and information centres.

He was beforehand senior director of engineering at Samsung Electronics. Koppad has over twenty years of expertise in product improvement and administration throughout numerous areas together with wi-fi infrastructure, cellular, and SaaS-based cloud computing platforms. He has held senior administration positions at Google, TiVo, and Motorola. At Google he led the design, improvement, and launch of smartphones together with Moto X, Moto G and Moto E.

Yotta hires Reliance Leisure’s Group CIO Sayed Peerzade

IDG India

Sayed Peerzade, former group CIO at Reliance Leisure, has joined Yotta Infrastructure as its govt vp and chief cloud officer. Based mostly in Mumbai, he’ll report back to Yotta CEO Sunil Gupta. He’s anticipated to strengthen the corporate’s cloud resolution portfolio, ship an enhanced cloud expertise for purchasers, and develop industry-specific options obtainable on IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS fashions.

At Reliance Leisure, he designed the primary non-public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-service mannequin and hybrid cloud, driving the digital enterprise profitability. He brings in 20 years of expertise throughout sectors together with media, broadcasting, information centre, telecom, BFSI, and retail.

Apollo Tyres appoints Kuldeep Goyal as head of world IT infrastructure and cybersecurity

Apollo Tyres has employed Kuldeep Goyal as its head of world IT Infrastructure and cybersecurity. Based mostly in Bangalore, he’ll report back to Hizmy Hassen, chief digital officer.

Goyal has 16 years’ expertise in IT Innovation, activation, operation, mission administration, and techniques administration. Previous to becoming a member of Apollo Tyres, he spent 13 years at Unilever, the place he managed the IT infrastructure of Unilever’s largest shared help centre and enterprise and expertise options outsourcing facility in Bangalore.

Anup Purohit strikes from Sure Financial institution to Wipro

IDG

Wipro has named Anup Purohit as its chief info officer, reporting to chief operations officer Sanjeev Singh. Purohit was IDG India’s CIO100 Corridor of Fame winner in 2019. He has over 25 years of expertise in banking and monetary providers, together with service supply, portfolio and program administration, threat and controls, and knowledge safety.

Purohit was beforehand CIO at Sure Financial institution, the place he spearheaded enterprise expertise transformation and digital innovation technique with a give attention to modernising the financial institution’s expertise stack. Previous to that, he held management positions at RBL Financial institution, Barclays Financial institution, and JP Morgan Chase.

IMGC appoints Sumit Chadha as CIO

IMGC

Sumit Chadha has joined India Mortgage Assure Corp. (IMGC) as chief info officer, the place he’ll spearhead expertise initiatives and strengthen aggressive capabilities.

Beforehand, he was head of IT at PNB Housing Finance Ltd., the place he led digitization of firm’s processes and techniques, and earlier than that labored at Nucleus Software program Exports and ICICI Financial institution. He has 20 years’ expertise in IT technique, structure, implementation, and governance, and is a certified Chartered Accountant with a certification in modern enterprise analytics practices from IIM Kolkata.

Nitin Mittal joins Zee Leisure Enterprises

Zee Leisure Enterprises has appointed Nitin Mittal as its new president of expertise and information, the place he may even be accountable for strategic initiatives in synthetic intelligence and machine studying. He has been charged with driving the corporate’s digital transformation agenda.

Together with Amit Goenka, the president of Zee’s digital companies and platforms, he may even work on enhancing buyer expertise throughout ZEE5, the corporate’s on-demand web streaming platform.

Vivek Viswanathan joins PayNearby as CTO

Previously VP of product improvement at Blue Yonder, Vivek Viswanathan has joined fintech firm PayNearby as chief expertise officer. He’s based mostly in Bangalore. He’ll work with PayNearby’s govt group to create new choices for retail companions and prospects. He may even work intently with the corporate’s product, information, and analytics groups to harness the ability of applied sciences like AI and ML.

He has over 20 years’ expertise within the expertise and software program house throughout fintech and provide chain domains. He was accountable for digital provide chain and omnichannel commerce fulfilment at Blue Yonder. Earlier than that, he was the CTO at Setu, a fintech API platform. He additionally co-founded social media startup Stillwater in 2016, previous to which he was the VP of engineering at Ezetap.

Could 2021

Unilever’s Reema Jain joins Vodafone Thought as CDO

Vodafone Thought has appointed Reema Jain chief digital officer to steer its digital transformation journey. She was beforehand the director of IT for digital provide chain at Unilever, and has nearly 20 years’ expertise in IT.

At Unilever Jain was accountable for creating and delivering the digital logistics technique. She has additionally led Unilever’s digital integration platform, engaged on utility improvement and lifecycle administration. Previous to that, she labored for 13 years at GE, the place she headed the Oracle expertise group for GE Home equipment’ ERP platform. She will likely be based mostly in Bangalore.

Edelweiss Normal Insurance coverage appoints Madhu Malhotra as CTO

Madhu Malhotra has joined Edelweiss Normal Insurance coverage as chief expertise officer. Her duties will embrace enhancing and reworking the client expertise.

She was most not too long ago vp of expertise at Spectra, main all points of IT together with cloud infrastructure, utility improvement and knowledge safety.

Earlier than that she labored for 10 years at Airtel, together with over three years main engineering groups at Airtel Funds Financial institution.

Rajesh Garg joins Yotta Infrastructure as CDO

Rajesh Garg has been appointed govt vp and chief digital officer at Yotta Infrastructure, the place he’ll report back to co-founder and CEO Sunil Gupta. He will likely be accountable for the expansion of the ERP implementation and different SaaS functions.

Garg was beforehand CEO and group CIO at Trident Group India, the place he was accountable for the digital transformation and IT automation, and earlier than that CIO and vp for digital transformation options at Rolta India.

Shashwat Singh joins boAt as CIO

Client electronics maker boAt has appointed Shashwat Singh as its chief info officer, reporting on to CEO Vivek Gambhir.

Singh brings in over 14 years of expertise main digital transformation for provide chain and finance capabilities at FMCG majors. Earlier than becoming a member of boat, he was Kimberly Clark’s provide chain expertise lead, and previous to that was the IT lead for provide chain in South Asia at Unilever. He has additionally held positions at Asian Paints, Infosys and Mindtree.

April 2021

Zee Leisure Enterprise appoints Vishal Somani as head of enterprise IT

Vishal Somani has joined Zee Leisure Enterprise as head of enterprise IT and content material expertise, based mostly in Mumbai.

Somani has over 20 years of expertise within the media and broadcasting and BFSI domains whereby he has led a number of advanced transformation mandates and numerous expertise operations. Most not too long ago, he spent seven years at Star TV Community the place he was senior vp and CIO, and earlier than that labored lengthy years with Tata AIA Life Insurance coverage and Tata Consultancy Companies.

Entero Healthcare appoints Pooraan Jaiswal as CTO

Provide chain startup Entero Healthcare has named Pooraan Jaiswal its chief expertise officer. He’ll report back to the COO Prem Sethi.

Previously CTO at jewelry retailer Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri (TBZ), Jaiswal has over 20 years of expertise in IT. Earlier than TBZ, he was CTO at clothes retailer Globus for nearly three years, and has additionally beforehand labored at Ritz Marketing consultant, Rediff and Indiatelevision.

Rakesh Bhardwaj joins Ola as group CIO

Ola has appointed Rakesh Bhardwaj its group chief info officer, based mostly in Bangalore. He was beforehand the senior vp and international CIO at Cognizant for 4 years.

In his new position Bharadwaj will present strategic course to Ola’s IT initiatives, protecting info techniques, instruments, safety, IT infrastructure and property throughout the group’s international operations and companies because it expands into new areas equivalent to related manufacturing, clever charging infrastructure.

He brings over 30 years of expertise in constructing and managing cutting-edge international IT groups and techniques for a number of the largest enterprises on the planet, together with Cognizant, and GE.

Ajay Bharwani indicators on with Author Corp. as group CIO

Realty, relocation, and money administration specialist Author Corp. has appointed Ajay Bharwani as group CIO and head of digital transformation, to steer the modernisation of IT techniques utilized by the corporate’s 10,000 staff.

Beforehand, Bharwani served as international head of IT and technical functions at Lupin, a pharmaceutical firm, and earlier than that as govt director for IT advisory providers in Africa, India, and the Center East with consulting agency EY.

Annapurna Vishwanathan is the brand new CIO at Cummins India

Previously head of digital at Hindustan Coca-Cola Drinks, Annapurna Vishwanathan has joined Cummins India as CIO.

Vishwanathan’s profession as an IT chief began at GE in Fairfield, Connecticut, the place she moved into IT mission administration from her preliminary position in audit. From there she moved to GE Digital in Bangalore, serving to create the corporate’s India Digital hub then, as a senior director of GE’s product software program engineering division, taking duty for end-to-end product improvement for the agency’s digital providers observe in India.  These roles set her up with expertise of managing IT safety, establishing money controls, overseeing acquisition integrations, and implementing Oracle sourcing platforms earlier than her transfer to Hindustan Coca-Cola Drinks in 2018. 

March 2021

Ashish Shrivastava joins FSS as head of expertise

After engaged on Punjab’s “One Built-in Authorities” mission, Ashish Shrivastava is transferring to the non-public sector to work on monetary inclusion. He has joined cost expertise agency FSS as its head of expertise. 

In his position as CTO for the Punjab state authorities, Shrivastava was accountable for implementing the “Digital Punjab Programme” throughout numerous departments and e-governance tasks. Beforehand, he held CIO positions at CMS Infosystems and Allied Blenders and Distillers. 

Vistara flies in Vinod Bhat as new chief info officer

Vinod Bhat has joined Vistara as CIO after a 28-year stint at Tata Consultancy Companies.

In his final position at TCS, as international enterprise head for UK and Europe operations, Bhat was accountable for strategizing and driving enterprise development, supply, CXO-level interactions, and enterprise advantages for TCS prospects. He additionally headed operations for the most important TCS supply centre, Delhi-NCR.

Saurabh Mittal is the brand new CTO at Piramal Retail Finance

Piramal Enterprises’ retail finance division has appointed former Medlife CTO Saurabh Mittal as its new chief expertise officer.

Mittal has been tasked with main expertise technique at Piramal Retail Finance, making a cutting-edge cloud-native tech-stack and constructing the AI expertise to energy the lending enterprise. He may even run the group accountable for creating and managing expertise for the corporate’s customer- and partner-facing enterprise platforms.

In his two-decade lengthy profession in IT, Mittal has accrued expertise in constructing and scaling modern client merchandise throughout e-commerce and telecom sectors.

He joined on-line pharmacy and medical diagnostics main Medlife in 2015 as its chief product officer and stop 4 years later as its chief expertise officer. At Medlife he performed an instrumental position in defining, creating, and evolving the corporate’s product portfolio along with enabling enterprise development from scratch.

Earlier than and after his stint at Medlife, Mittal labored at Amazon India, most not too long ago main a group that engineered software program techniques for one in every of its fulfilment channels.

February 2021

Narendra Agrawal is the brand new World CIO of Dabur India

Dabur India has appointed Hindustan Unilever’s former IT head, Narendra Agrawal, as its new international CIO

“Agrawal comes with an enormous publicity in efficiently main giant scale international transformation tasks in Enterprise Useful resource Planning (ERP), logistics operation, monetary forecasting, and gross sales and operations planning,” mentioned Dabur India.

Agrawal spent 9 years at Hindustan Unilever, India’s largest FMCG agency, the place he was accountable for main end-to-end IT integration following its acquisition of vitamin enterprise Glaxo Smith Kline Client Healthcare. He went on to spearhead IT for Unilever’s gross sales operate and to drive digitization for the newly acquired vitamin enterprise.

Amongst his accomplishments at Unilever, Agrawal was accountable for rewiring gross sales and operations planning, monetary efficiency administration, worker expertise and go-to-market deployment. Along with driving tasks from a method stage to advantages realization, he has constructed experience in service administration and vendor administration throughout his 13 years of IT expertise.

A College of Mumbai and IIM-Indore alumnus, Agrawal began his IT profession at Missouri-based software program and providers agency Amdocs. He then moved to Capgemini as a marketing consultant in 2008 earlier than becoming a member of Hindustan Unilever in 2012.

Adani Energy names Nitin Rohilla CIO

Nitin Rohilla has joined Adani Energy as its CIO. He was beforehand the vp of IT at Adani Electrical energy, one other firm inside the identical group, for over two years. Beforehand based mostly out of Mumbai, Rohilla has now moved to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to take up his new position. Rohilla will report on to Anil Sardana, managing director at Adani Energy.

Rohilla mentioned, “As CIO of Adani Energy, my duties will likely be to make IT as a accomplice in enterprise the place IT must be thought-about as first port of name for any enterprise choice.

“I consider that IT initiatives ought to drive enterprise worth,” he mentioned, including that he’ll give attention to improved and efficient processes to carry consistency and standardisation.
Rohilla has 30 years’ expertise in IT administration, quite a lot of it involving SAP techniques, and has labored at corporations together with Pidilite Industries, Azure Energy, Tata Energy, Cairn Power, BSES Delhi, and Tata Chemical compounds.

Anil Menon joins Lulu Group India as head of IT

Lulu Group India has appointed Anil Menon as its head of IT. Menon will likely be based mostly in Kochi. He was previously the final supervisor for IT innovation at Tata Starbucks.

In his new position, Menon will likely be accountable for strengthening the digital operations at Lulu to help the corporate’s massive enlargement plan for India, specializing in buyer expertise and provide chain productiveness. Menon may even be accountable for creating an agile ecosystem to help innovation and implement new age applied sciences to speed up the expansion throughout all channels.

Previous to Tata Starbucks, Menon labored with corporations together with Trent Hypermarket and Cybage Software program. He has over 18 years of expertise in IT and retail.

Tejas Shah leaves Axis Finance for SVKM

Tejas Shah has been appointed deputy director of IT at Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal (SVKM). SVKM is an academic institute and a public charitable belief registered beneath the Societies Registration Act and Bombay Public Belief Act.

His earlier position was as the top of IT Infrastructure at Axis Finance, the place he was accountable for total planning, organizing, and execution of all IT capabilities.

At SVKM he will likely be accountable for managing pan-India IT infrastructure together with the community, functions, servers, end-user help group and internet portal help.

Shah is an skilled IT chief expert in IT infrastructure administration, mission coordination, id and entry administration (IAM), IT service supply, and budgeting and knowledge safety.

He has beforehand labored for HDFC Financial institution, Sify Applied sciences and Wipro.

January 2021

Fabindia Abroad appoints Kunal Mehta as its Group CTO

Kunal Mehta joins retail model Fabindia Abroad as its group chief expertise officer. Mehta brings in 20 years of expertise, 16 of which he spent in retail and the manufacturing sector the place his main duties have been enterprise IT operations and IT technique.

Mehta will likely be based mostly in New Delhi for his new position at Fabindia, the place he will likely be accountable for defining the IT technique roadmap and driving IT transformation via enterprise. His major duty will likely be to construct a strong digital spine to innovate and speed up enterprise development throughout all channels.

He will likely be working intently with the highest administration at Fabindia to make sure improved effectivity and productiveness, to enhance provide chain techniques and buyer expertise, and to implement new applied sciences to prepared the model for future development.

In his earlier position, Mehta was the top of IT at Raymond Ltd. Previous to that, he was with corporations together with Trent Hypermarket, Reliance Retail, Johnson & Johnson, and Nilkamal.

Pradipt Kapoor named CIO of Bharti Airtel

Pradipt Kapoor is taking up from Harmeen Mehta as CIO of Bharti Airtel.

In his final position, Kapoor was VP and international head of merchandise and options engineering at delivery and logistics main Maersk.

“I’m tremendous excited to be becoming a member of Airtel. It’s an iconic model and I really like the very fact buyer centricity and buyer obsession is within the core DNA of the group,” Kapoor advised CIO India.

As a part of its digital drive, the Indian telecom big has been striving to develop a broad array of digital providers and platforms.

On his position in serving to the corporate meet its digital agenda, Kapoor mentioned “I’m wanting ahead to serving to realise the Airtel digital imaginative and prescient: to assist construct merchandise, platforms and providers which ensure that prospects get the absolute best service expertise.”

Bhavesh Gandhi joins Aarti Industries as chief digital and knowledge officer

Bhavesh Gandhi has been appointed as chief digital and knowledge officer at chemical and pharmaceutical main Aarti Industries.

The corporate has 16 chemical manufacturing websites from which it serves practically 150 international and 500 native corporations.

Gandhi was beforehand CIO of Piramal Enterprises’ pharma division, the place he labored for 5 years.

Harmit Singh Malhotra named CTO at Enterr10 Tv

Harmit Singh Malhotra has joined media and leisure main Enterr10 Tv as chief expertise officer.

Earlier than that, he was normal supervisor for IT and IS at Republic World, the place he was accountable for managing the whole broadcast and company IT infrastructure, along with evaluating new applied sciences and formulating IT technique. He performed a key position in IT enterprise course of design and resolution identification. Malhotra was additionally accountable for making certain compliance and defining IT safety and working insurance policies.

Malhotra has in depth expertise within the broadcast media {industry}, having labored at companies like Community 18, Star TV, CNBC-TV18.

Chaitanya Wagh appointed CTO (India) at Scotiabank

Former Group CTO at JM Monetary, Chaitanya Wagh has joined Canadian multinational banking and monetary providers firm Scotiabank as Chief Know-how Officer (India).

Wagh has over 20 years of expertise in managing expertise for funding banking, fairness buying and selling, asset administration, wealth administration, retail buying and selling, and glued earnings companies.

In his earlier position, Wagh was the group CTO of JM Monetary, the place he labored for over 12 years. His IT profession within the BFSI sector began with DSP Merrill Lynch. He then moved to JP Morgan Stanley Securities, following which he served as director of data expertise at UBS Securities.

Over time, Wagh accrued experience in aligning his group’s expertise roadmap with enterprise methods and performed key management roles in resolution planning and mission administration.

New CIO appointments in India, 2020

November 2020

Shiju Rawther joins CARE Rankings as chief info and expertise officer

Ramesh Lakshminarayanan appointed CIO at HDFC Financial institution

October 2020

Piramal Glass names Sudip Mazumder international chief digital and knowledge officer 

Giridhar Yasa joins Lendingkart as CTO

Puneet Kaur Kohli joins Common Sompo Normal Insurance coverage Co. as CTO

Mohit Kapoor joins Mahindra as Group CTO

September 2020

George Fanthome joins Bangalore Worldwide Airport (BIAL) as CIO

Shuvankar Pramanick joins Columbia Asia Hospitals as CIO

July 2020

A Shiju Rawther joins Poonawalla Finance as CIO 

June 2020

Manish Shetty joins Diageo as CIO

Amit Waghmare appointed CIO at DB Corp

Could 2020

Gaurav Kataria joins Sai Life Sciences as chief digital and knowledge officer

Bhavesh Lakhani joins IndusInd Financial institution as CTO

April 2020

Vipul Anand joins Praxis Advisory Community as area chief for IT observe

March 2020

Kapil Pal joins United Breweries as head of IT

Ashok Jade joins Spark Minda as group chief info and expertise officer

Irshad Saifi joins legislation agency Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAMCO) as CIO and CDO

Abhishek Agarwal joins Power Effectivity Companies Restricted (EESL) as head of IT

Yotta Infrastructure appoints Kamal Goel as govt vice-president for IT

February 2020

Sony Footage Networks India (SPN) appoints Raj Mohan Srinivasan as CIO

January 2020

Pankaj Pandey joins SBI Normal Insurance coverage as Head-IT

New CIO appointments in India, 2019

December 2019

Broadcast Viewers Analysis Council (BARC) India appoints Mahendra Ok Upadhyay as CIO

Arindam Sengupta joins Dixcy Textiles as CIO

November 2019

Piyush Kumar Chowhan joins Lulu Group Worldwide as Group CIO

Yotta Infrastructure Appoints Manish Israni as head of IT operations and CIO 

Spicejet appoints Ashish Vikram as chief expertise and innovation officer 

Hero Cycles appoints Shaveta Wadhera as group chief digital officer

October 2019

Anand Ruhela appointed IT head at Manipal World Group

September 2019

Usha Worldwide appoints Sachin Gupta chief info and innovation officer

Evercare Group appoints Sumit Puri as Group CTO 

Prashant Singh joins Max Healthcare as Director and CIO

Cholamandalam MS Normal Insurance coverage names Anubhav Rajput CIO

August 2019

Archie Jackson to go IT group at Incedo

July 2019

The Indian Specific appoints Amardeep Vishwakarma as CTO

April 2019

M Sivasubramanian joins VA Tech Wabag as CIO

March 2019

Alembic Prescription drugs appoints Jitendra Mishra as its new VP-CIO

Sharat M Airani joins Bluechink as Chief Digital Officer

Rajesh Garg joins Trident as CXO-IT

February 2019

Paytm Cash appoints Suresh Vasudevan as its CTO

Rockman Industries appoints Manzar Abbas as CIO

The Nice Japanese Transport Co. appoints Pavan Tsunduru as CIO 

Glory Nelson joins WOW Airways as head of digital 

January 2019

Pidilite Industries appoints Mayur Danait as CIO 

Bajaj Allianz Insurance coverage appoints Gautam Datta aschief info and expertise officer

Shiv Kumar Bhasin joins Nationwide Inventory Alternate as chief expertise and operations officer