Tarun Rai to head HTA Mumbai
Mumbai: Tarun Rai, senior vice president and general manager of Hindustan Thompson Associates (HTA), has been made head of HTA Mumbai.

Rai is a seasoned Thompsonian with 12 years of agency experience behind him. The hot seat in HTA fell vacant when Sunil Gupta, executive vice president, put in his papers last Friday.
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Pepsico India chief on ICICI Bank board
Mumbai: P M Sinha, chairman of Pepsico India Holding Ltd, will join the board of ICICI Bank as an additional director. On his joining the board the number of directors of the bank would increase to 11.

ICICI plans to increase the number of internal directors on the board after the merger of ICICI and ICICI Bank. Post merger N Vaghul, chairman, ICICI, will be the chairman of

ICICI Bank, while KV Kamath, managing director and CEO of ICICI, will be the managing director and CEO of the bank.
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Silverline top officials resign
Mumbai: Two top officials of Silverline Technologies have resigned. They are chief financial officer Venkatachalam K Murthy and chief operating officer Rajan Nair. Murthy has resigned in order to pursue entrepreneurial ventures on his own. He had held senior management positions with Silverline since its incorporation in 1992.

His responsibilities for finance and accounting will be assumed by Norman Dsouza.

Chief operating officer Rajan Nair has also decided to pursue certain entrepreneurial ventures on his own. Nair had joined the company after the acquisition of SeraNova this year. Ravi Singh, the companys CEO, will assume Nairs responsibilities.
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Burman Jr. joins Dabur board
New Delhi: Amit Burman, son of late G C Burman, has joined the board of directors of Dabur India Ltd. as an executive director.

G C Burman, who was vice-chairman of Dabur India, was slated to take over the chairmanship of the company from his cousin, V C Burman, in September this year. But he passed away a few days before the due date.

V C Burman continues as the chairman of the company. Anand Burman, son of Dabur India chairman emeritus A C Burman, has been made the vice-chairman and is slated to take over from his uncle.

At present, Anand Burman is looking after Dabur Oncology Plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dabur India in the United Kingdom.
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