Ramani to head HP Labs
New DelhI: Hewlett-Packard has appointed well-known R&D specialist Srinivas Ramani as head of HP Labs India. Ramani, a former R&D director at Silverline Technologies and the founder director of Mumbai-based National Centre for Software Technology, is a known face in Indian IT circles.
Ramani will continue to serve as a member of Silverline's advisory board. He is also the executive vice-president of the International Council for Computer Communication, on the United Nations high-level panel of advisors in information and communications technologies.
In the past, he has served as president of the Computer Society of India. Ramani also played a major role in planning and creating India's education and research network, and is behind the setting up of a large leased line network under ERNET.
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Mahesh Gupta to take over as RPG group CFO
Mumbai: Piramal group chief financial officer (CFO) Mahesh S Gupta is expected to take charge as group CFO and member of the management board of the Rs 6,500-crore RPG group.

Mr Gupta, a fellow member of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, had been associated with the Ajay Piramal group for over 15 years. Mr Gupta, who started out as a management trainee, moved up the ladder quickly, rising to the position of CFO at the Piramal group.
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Rakesh Mohan quits as FMs adviser
New Delhi: Rakesh Mohan has resigned as the adviser to the Union finance minister. He would be back in Industrial Development and Finance Corporation as its executive vice-chairman.

NIPFP director Ashok Lahiri is widely being tipped to take over as adviser to the finance minister after Rakesh Mohan.
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