BPIAI, the BPO lobby in India, will soon have its new president elected. Sam Chopra the current President will step down as his term expires in Nov 2008. The elections will be held in the first week of December 2008. Ranashree Sengar from the BPIAI secretariat told us over a telecon. She also shared that during the same time other office bearers will be elected too. More...

Ms. Debjani Chatterjee , Senior Manager – Human Resources, at UshaComm Software, based at  Kolkata, has put in her papers and has resigned from her current role a couple of days ago. The reason for this sudden move on her part is a new beginning in her life. She is getting married in a few days' time and is relocating out of Kolkata.  Debjani is highly regarded in the industry. More...

The Manager, Quality, at the Convergys BPO Bangalore Centre,  Mr. Sharad Tandon,  has moved to Firstsource solutions as Deputy General Manager ( DGM) Quality for Domestic  Business. He would be taking care of the Vodafone Business in his new assignment. This business is spread in centres in Kerala, Andhra, West Bengal and Orissa. Mr. Tandon has an excellent track record in the booming BPO industry. More...

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...