Preety Kumar named to Board roles in India
1st Sep 2011Preety Kumar (New Delhi) was recently appointed to the Board of The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI) of India. TERI is a Nobel prize-winning organization investigating solutions to global problems in the fields of energy, environment and patterns of development. Preety has also been nominated as the Chairperson of the Task Force on Boards & Corporate Governance of the Federation ..... Read More
The Hunted turn Hunters
Economic Times, 6th Jan 2011A decade ago Swarup Choudhury's career leap may have been seen as a step back. The VP of growth markets at IBM moved to search firm Amrop India in September last after 10 years with the hardware giant and 17 years with HSBC India, where he quit as head of merchant banking..... Read More
Preety Kumar, Amrop India: Video Interview
NewsX, 1 Dec 2010"...What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? An Ivy League degree? A business background? Substantial work experience? Preety Kumar of Amrop had none of these but what she did have was 'self belief'." Preety Kumar, Managing Partner of Amrop India, was interviewed recently as part of the India Inc. series by NewsX ...... Watch Video
Voice of Reason
Corporate Dossier, Economic Times, 15 Oct 2010While dealing with the spillover of Satyamgate, nothing worked for the accounting major pwc, such was the intense media spotlight and the barrage of negative news. When the heavy overhang of the scandal refused to wither away in the first couple of months of 2009, the firm decided to form an advisory board.... Read More
Wonder that is India
Economic Times, 12 Sep 2010In his early years in India, General Motors India chief executive officer Karl Slym, once saw an Asiatic elephant walking down the street where he lived. He was understandably blown out of his wits. Today, he can remember it fondly. "Animals and people sharing the same infrastructure in such a casual way was something unusual to us, early on," says Slym.... Read More
Mixed Doubles
Article on Relationship Dynamics beetwen Owners & CEO's
Corporate Dossier, Economic Times, 21 May 2010
One of the early graduates of IIM-Ahmedabad, Rekhi has been with the UB group for 38 years. Hired when the late Vittal Mallya ran the company, Rekhi became executive assistant to Vijay Mallya when he joined the business at the age of 25. "There was very little age difference between us at that time, so we got along very well," he says..... Read More
Of Culture Shocks and Cows
MINT, 19 May 2010Olav Sande's biggest problem in adjusting to life in India has been in pronouncing local names—of both people and places—since he arrived in the country from Oslo, Norway, in August to oversee the western Indian operations of mobile phone firm Uninor Wireless Pvt. Ltd. He is taking it one name at a time....... Read More
Expats Seek India Exposure
MINT, 18 May 2010Five years ago, Briton Robert Mackie, 36, asked his employer Jaguar Cars Ltd for a transfer to China, but was turned down. In August 2008, some five months after the luxury car maker had been bought by Tata Motors Ltd, his boss told him there was a job opening in India and asked him if he was interested.... Read More
Indian Firms turn to Expats
MINT, 17 May 2010At the Geneva Motor show in March, Tata Motors Ltd introduced its newly hired German executives Carl-Peter Forster and Ralf Speth with as much fanfare as it did the European variant of the Nano, the world's cheapest car...... Read More