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P.V.R. Murthy is group finance director of Yash Birla Group
Mumbai: Yash Birla Group has announced the appointment of P.V.R. Murthy as Group Finance Director.

Murthy is expected to oversee all finance related activities of the group and will also be spearheading the restructuring process now underway at the Yash Birla Group.
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Deepak Dheer appointed CEO, Stamping Business at M&M
Mumbai: Deepak Dheer has taken over as chief executive officer, Stamping Business, Mahindra & Mahindra. The stampings business is housed in the Mahindra Systems and Automotive Technologies Sector of M&M Ltd.

Dheer has over three decades of diverse business experience in large corporate houses, public sector and multinationals, both within the country and abroad.

Dheer is a B Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Chennai with a PG diploma in business management from IIM Ahmedabad. He began his career with Telco, Pune as a graduate engineer trainee in 1973 and later joined the TAS, the central management centre of the Tata group where he worked for eight years in the field of project management and business developement.

Prior to this, he was managing director of Tudor India Ltd.
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Swiss Re appoints Anders Ihr as MD of Bangalore centre
Bangalore: Swiss Re has appointed Anders Ihr as Managing Director of its fast-growing global shared service centre located in Bangalore.

A Swiss Re release said here on Monday that Ihr replaced Thomas Zuerrer who has returned to the company's headquarters in Zurich this month, after five years in the role.

The Bangalore centre takes care of the back office operations of one of the world's largest reinsurers.

Operated since 2001 to service the company's Asian property & casualty business, the Swiss Re shared service centre in Bangalore would see significant expansion in 2005, the release said.

The operations in Bangalore would be exclusively in the form of "internal BPO" and would not be involved in front office operations.

Currently, the centre employs 200 professionals.
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Surya Kant to head TCS' North American operations
New York: Tata Consultancy Services, a leading global technology services company, has announced that it is re-aligning its sales and marketing engine in North America in order to enhance customer centricity and to serve the company's fast-growing base of customers in the region more effectively.

To this end, TCS has appointed Surya Kant as the new president of North American operations. Kant has been with TCS for the past 27 years and most recently served as head of customer delivery in New Delhi. In this capacity he has been managing many of TCS' key customer relationships. Prior to this, he has also served as head of TCS' operations in Japan and the United Kingdom.

The new sales structure will help TCS focus on new markets and expand its basket of offerings in the region, including emerging services like RFID solutions, transaction-based business process outsourcing solutions and engineering services, officials said.

The new organization structure will ensure that TCS can offer key customers a range of technology and service offerings through a new dedicated team of senior executives with deep domain knowledge aligned according to industry verticals.

This group of executives will help TCS expand more effectively within its existing customer base and also focus on bringing new customers on board.

Arup Gupta, who spent six years as president of TCS in North America, will return to Mumbai to assume a position leading new initiatives at TCS' corporate headquarters.

At the end of the last financial year on March 31, 2005, 59% of TCS' total revenues came from North America.
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