Rajan Srikanth joins Mercer
New Delhi: Rajan Srikanth has been appointed as head of Mercer Human Resource Consulting and will also lead Mercer's Human Capital Advisory Services in Asia. He will be based in Chennai. Srikanth was earlier with Accenture as executive partner and the global leader for the firm's organisational change strategy practice.
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Sanjay Das tipped to move to India as COO Star India
Mumbai: Sanjay Das, who has a varied experience in finance and business development is tipped to be joining Star India as the chief operating officer.

At present Star India is headed by Sameer Nair in charge of Entertainment affairs supported by Paritosh Joshi as president of ad sales and distribution.

Prior to the Star Group being split into two divisions — Star Group and Star Entertainment headed by Peter Mukherjea and Sameer Nair respectively — Nair, as the COO, overlooked the entire operations of the company.

Speculations are doing the rounds that Peter Mukherjea may be on his way out of the organisation to set up something else, nothing has materialised on that front.
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Indian American is honoured by US chemical industry
Houston: Indian American, Raj L Gupta, chairman, president and CEO of Rohm and Haas Company a Philadelphia-based Fortune 500 firm that makes products for personal care, grocery, home and construction markets, and the electronics industry, has been selected for the US chemical industry's most prestigious honour — the 2007 Chemical Industry Medal — by the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI).

The Chemical Industry Medal is awarded annually "for contributions toward the growth of the chemical industry."

The award is especially notable in that the membership of the SCI is composed of the leaders of the chemical industry, most of who work within the highest ranks of their respective companies.
Gupta is mainly being recognized for his continued commitment to the success of the global industry.

During his 35-year career with Rohm and Haas, Gupta has transformed the company into a global powerhouse that generates revenues of $8 billion a year.

Originally from Muzzaffarnagar, Gupta studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, (1967) and earned an opportunity for a fellowship at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

There he finished his master's degree in operations research in 1969. He completed his MBA in Finance in 1971 from Drexel University while employed at Scott Paper Company.
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