Senior management changes announced at Cognizant tech
Chennai: There have been some senior managerial changes at Cognizant Tech.

Francisco D'Souza, chief operating officer, Cognizant Technology Solution, has been appointed as president and chief operating officer of the company and will take over from January 1, 2007. He succeeds Lakshmi Narayanan, who has become the vice-chairman of the board of directors.

Gordon Coburn, chief financial officer has been promoted as chief financial and operating officer. Chandra Sekaran, an executive officer , has been promoted as president and managing director, global delivery. Rajeev Mehta has been promoted as chief operating officer, global client services, and will join the executive team.
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New director at Convergys
Hyderabad: Convergys Corporation has appointed C.V. Sathyanarayana as director, global solutions assurance centre at Convergys' Hyderabad Information Management campus.

Employees at the Hyderabad IT campus provide professional services and operations support for Convergys' Information Management business and directly to Convergys clients.
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New appointments at Advertising Agencies Association of India
Mumbai: Srinivasan K. Swamy, CEO, RK Swamy BBDO, has been re-elected president of the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) for 2006-07. This is his third consecutive year as the AAAI President. The other elected members of the executive committee for 2006-07 comprise Neville Gomes (Multimedia Aquarius), Sudhir Ghate (Magnum Intergrafiks), Vinod Nair (Network Advertising), V. Shantakumar (Saatchi & Saatchi), Arvind Sharma (Leo Burnett), Madhukar Kamath (Mudra Communications), Tapas Gupta (BEI Confluence Communication), Surajit Nag (ASP), and Nagesh Alai (Interface Communication).

Madhukar Kamath, managing director and CEO of Mudra Communications was re-elected vice-president. The ex-president Sam Balsara, chairman and managing director, Madison Communications, will continue to be the ex-officio member of the new AAAI executive committee.
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CBDT now at full strength
New Delhi: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is now full represented with the Government appointing four new members on Tuesday. The Board now has six members and a chairperson.

The four new members are Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Rao Ranvijay Singh, Ms Indira Bhargava and Ratneshwar Prasad.

Rajiv Ranjan Singh, earlier, was director general of Income Tax (DGIT Investigation) in Delhi, while Ranvijay Singh was DGIT (Investigation) in Mumbai. Ms Bhargava was Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCIT) in Mumbai and Ratneshwar Prasad was CCIT in Delhi.
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A.C. Mahajan is new Allahabad Bank CMD
New Delhi: A.C. Mahajan has been appointed as chairman and managing director of Allahabad Bank from August 1 this year.

Mahajan is expected to remain CMD of the bank up to July 31, 2010 i.e the date of his superannuation.
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KC Jena joins Railway Board
New Delhi: KC Jena has joined the Railway Board as Member (Staff). Before joining the Railway Board, he was the General Manager, East Central Railway, said an official release. He had also worked as the Executive Director (Safety) and Executive Director (Coaching) in the Railway Board earlier. Mr Jena succeeds Mr R.S. Varshneya who retired after 38 years of service.
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