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Jagdish Kini Joins Aircel as Group CEO
Aircel announced the appointment of Jagdish Kini as group chief executive officer, effective from November 1, 2006. He will be leading the Aircel team for its all-India operations. Kini's primary focus would be to transform Aircel from being a regional operator to a nation-wide operator and further strengthen its customer-centric focus with new products and services.

Major changes in Bharti
Bharti Airtel has appointed Atul Bindal as joint president, Airtel Broadband and Telephone Services. He will report to Manoj Kohli, president, Bharti Airtel and will be a member on the Airtel Management Board and chair the Broadband and Telephone Services Management Board. Bindal, in his new role, will focus on taking Bharti Airtel's Broadband and Telephone services division to new heights with increased town rollouts and introduction of new technologies. Airtel also announced the appointment of Deepak Srivastava as COO, Airtel Broadband and Telephone Services, North region. Bharti has also appointed Carol Borghesi as its customer service delivery director.

Cisco Appoints Amit Sinha Roy as VP
Cisco has announced the appointment of Amit Sinha Roy as vice president, Marketing for India & SAARC region. Roy replaces Ranajoy Punja, who moves on to his new role as the VP, business development, advanced technologies, Cisco Systems, India & SAARC. Prior to joining Cisco, he was heading various marketing functions at Hewlett Packard (India, APAC & Japan), Syntel (US), Compaq India and HCL India. Punja will be heading the technology group responsible for driving and accelerating sales for Cisco's Advanced Technologies in India and SAARC.

Jarrett Appointed Sr VP of Flag Telecom
Reliance Communications has appointed Jarrett Appleby as senior VP, Marketing and Strategy and a member of the company's Executive Team. He was the former head, Strategy of MCI (Verizon). Prior to joining Flag Telecom, he has had stints at Qwest Solutions Business as general manager, where he built the company's solutions sales approach by integrating professional services and managed services across all sales channels. Another key assignment handled by him was with ILV Group where he was the CEO and founder for an executive business advisory services firm that provided strategic channel distribution for emerging technology companies.

Bala Mahadevan named President of CSC India
Computer Sciences Corp has announced that Bala Mahadevan has been named president of CSC's India operations. In this role, Mahadevan will be responsible for the financial and operational performance of the business unit, including the management of more than 7,000 professionals that provide product development, application management and remote infrastructure services within the region. He will report to Mary Jo Morris, president of CSC's Global Transformation Services business unit. He replaces Tom Kenyon, who has been interim president for the past 12 months. Prior to CSC, Mahadevan was with HP as director of global delivery and application services.

Michel Susai, New CEO and Chairman of NeoAccel
NeoAccel has announced the appointment of Michel Susai as the company's chairman and CEO. Susai is recognized for his work on NeoAccel's high-performance SSL VPN-Plus and its underlying ICAA technology and is one of 16 technology and business executives to be honored with this prestigious award by Silicon Valley Communications, publishers of the Info Security Products Guide. Michel Susai is an inventor who has developed patent-pending technologies that provide fundamental means of optimizing and accelerating the performance of the Internet's underlying TCP/IP networking protocols. Susai launched NeoAccel to address the fundamental problems associated with existing SSL VPN technology.

AePona Appoints Sudhir Loomba as Regional Sales Director
Aepona, a provider of Service Network products and solutions to telecos has appointed Sudhir Loomba as its sales director for the region. His role will be to establish Aepona as the leading supplier of Service Network products and solutions in the Indian market, and he would be working directly with operators as well as through partners. Loomba was working with Bharti Telesoft before being elevated to this new and challenging role.

Ricky Bindra New CEO of the Genpact-NDTV JV
Genpact has announced the appointment of Ricky Bindra as the CEO of the recent Genpact-NDTV joint venture, NGEN Media Services. In his new role, will be responsible for the growth along with revenue and EBIT targets for this joint venture. Previously, Bindra was the VP and Global Operating Leader for one of Genpact's biggest clients where he played a successful and pivotal role in enhancing the account's performance. Prior to joining Genpact, he has worked with organizations such as Accenture, Phoenix Global and Wipro Spectramind in leadership roles across operations and business development.

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