Ratan Tata may be appointed on Fiat board
New Delhi: IFIL, an Agnelli company that owns 30 per cent of Fiat and is the largest shareholder in the Italian car maker, wants to appoint Tata Motors chairman Ratan Tata on Fiat's board as an independent director.

The company has proposed Ratan Tata's name as one of the eight independent directors on the 15-member board for 2006-08.

If Tata is co-opted on the Fiat board, he will join a small band of Indian CEOs on the boards of large multinational corporations.
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Virtusa appoints new HR head
Hyderabad: Virtusa Corporation has appointed T.N. Hari as vice-president and global head of human resources. He will be part of the team in Virtusa's Hyderabad Advanced Technology Centre.

Before joining Virtusa, Hari served for nearly four years at IBM-Daksh, where he ran HR and played a key role in the integration of Daksh with IBM and the subsequent emergence of IBM-Daksh as India's biggest third-party BPO company.
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R. Seshasayee is CII President
New Delhi: R. Seshasayee, managing director of Ashok Leyland, has taken over as president of the CII, succeeding Y.C. Deveshwar of ITC. Prior to this Seshasayee served as director in ICICI Bank, EID Parry India and Sundaram Asset Management Co.

A chartered accountant by qualification, he has been a member of the CII National Council for over 20 years. Recently, he took over as chairman of the board of governors of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi.

Sunil Mittal, chairman and group managing director, Bharti Enterprises, has been elected vice-president of the chamber. He also serves on the board of CII's National Council.
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Ramaswamy is SAFA vice-chairman
Coimbatore G. Ramaswamy, central council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, has been nominated as vice-chairman of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA). SAFA is a forum of professional accountancy bodies. The member bodies of SAFA include the chartered and cost and management accountants institutes in Pakistan and Bangladesh, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, and the chartered accountants institutes in Sri Lanka and Nepal.
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