Neville Roach to head TCS-FNS
Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services has announced the appointment of Neville Roach as chairman of its Australian company TCS-FNS, and also as an advisor to TCS Australia.

TCS-FNS has been set up by TCS for the acquisition of the core banking solutions company, the Sydney-based Financial Network Services (FNS).

Roach has spent 15 years with IBM and has also been chairman and CEO of Fujitsu Australia, according to a news release from TCS. He is also on several Federal and State ICT industry development committees. He is ex-chairman of the Australia India Business council.

S. Ramadorai, CEO and managing director of TCS has said that the appointment will help TCS Australia become a major force in the Australian market.
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Bibek Debroy is Secretary General, PHDCCI
New Delhi: Bibek Debroy has taken over as the new Secretary General of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) from January 1, taking over from Dr B.P. Dhaka.

Debroy has served as the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (RGICS), Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi, before this appointment. Debroy is a professional economist, and has been educated at the Presidency College (Kolkata), the Delhi School of Economics and the Trinity College (Cambridge).
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M. Ayyappan is new CMD at Hind Latex
Thiruvananthapuram: M. Ayyappan, Managing Director of Hindustan Latex Ltd (HLL), has been elevated as Chairman and Managing Director of the company.

An engineering graduate from the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, Ayyappan did his MBA degree at the Cochin University of Science and Technology. He had taken over as the head of the marketing department in 1991.
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Shantilal Daga in IFAC's developing nations committee
Hyderabad: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has announced that the US-based International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has appointed its central council member, Shantilal Daga, to the Developing Nations Committee for a period of two years. Daga will represent India on behalf of ICAI.
The IFAC is the worldwide organisation for accountancy profession.

In a press release, the ICAI said that the New York headquartered IFAC is represented by 160 professional bodies of 120 countries. Its mission is to serve the public interest and strengthen the worldwide accountancy profession. The objective of the Developing Nations Committee is to support the development of the accounting profession, particularly in developing nations by aiding their participation in the international standard setting process.
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