Tata, Birla exit Batata board
Mumbai: Ratan Tata and Kumar Mangalam Birla have stepped down from the board of Batata, the merged cellular entity of Birla, AT&T and Tata group.

The board comprising nine members will be represented by three professionals from each company - the Tata group, the AV Birla group and AT&T.

Tata group will be represented by Ishaat Hussain, R Gopalkrishnan and Kishore Chaukker.

The AV Birla group will be represented on the Batata board by Birla Management Corporation director Sourabh Mishra, Grasim Industries chief financial officer D D Rathi and Grasim Industries director (legal affairs) M Prasanna.

Among the three directors from AT&T will be the company's India chief Virat Bhatia.
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New MD for Sony Music
Mumbai: Sony Music has appointed Shridhar Subramaniam, the company's director-marketing, as the new managing director. He replaces Vijay Singh, who recently put in his papers to take up another assignment in the UK.
Subramaniam will take over after 28 February.

Sony Music has also appointed Ravina Raj Kohli and her newly-promoted company called Sundial as creative consultants for its new non-film projects.

Sridhar Subramaniam joined Sony Music six years ago in October 1996 as part of the startup team and has headed the marketing division of the company.
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Enron chief resigns
Houston: Kenneth Lay, the chairman and chief executive of Enron Corp, has resigned from the energy company.

Enron will select a restructuring specialist to join Enron to help with its efforts to come out of bankruptcy. The specialist will also serve as an acting chief executive officer.
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