Shivakumar takes over as Nokia VP
New Delhi: Nokia India has appointed D Shivakumar as vice-president and country general manager for customer and market operations, to be effective from May 1, 2006.

Shivakumar, at present the executive director and vice-president of Philips India, will replace Sanjeev Sharma, who is headed for Singapore as vice-president for marketing, Asia Pacific, Nokia.

The announcement comes just before the scheduled inauguration of Nokia's mobile and GSM manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur near Chennai on March 11 by the Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen. The Finnish handset company is also planning an organisational restructuring, by creating new positions of distribution head and direct business head, under the country head.

Nokia India recently announced its new distribution strategy, under which it plans to distribute handsets on its own in one half of the country's geographical area, with the other half remaining with HCL Infosystems, its sole distributor in India.

Last year, Sanjay Behl, sales head, Nokia India, resigned to join Reliance Infocomm as the head of branding, and Nokia has not yet found a replacement for him.
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Vibha Rishi resigns from PepsiCo
New Delhi: Vibha Paul Rishi, known for building brand Pepsi in India, has resigned from the company after 16 years with the company. Rishi had moved to Purchase, Pepsico's headquarters in US, to look after a bouquet of non-cola brands like Mountain Dew, Seven Up and Mirinda for the non-US markets in 2003.

Rishi is said to be joining her husband, Sanjay Rishi, who had taken up a new assignment at American Express in London.
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