1.
Twitter’s CHRO and VP-diversity bid farewell
The social media company’s VP of diversity and inclusion,
Jeffrey Siminoff, is expected to leave the company by February end, while it’s
CHRO, Renee Atwood has already quit.
Word is out that
Twitter’s chief human resources officer, Renee Atwood, an ex-Uber employee, who
had joined the company in August last year has already quit the social
networking firm. At the same time, it is being expected that Twitter’s VP of
diversity and inclusion, Jeffrey Siminoff, will also be leaving the company at
the end of the month.
In her last job at
Uber, Atwood was the global head of people and places. Twitter’s CEO, Jack
Dorsey, reportedly sent a note to let employees know about Siminoff’s upcoming
exit, and said that he is leaving on his own accord. Although Atwood’s LinkedIn
profile still reflects Twitter as her workplace, if reports are to be believed,
she has left the firm.
Siminoff joined
Twitter from Apple, where he was the director of worldwide inclusion and
diversity. He joined in December 2015 to replace Janet Van Huysse as vice
president of diversity and inclusion. Reports suggest that at the time of the
announcement of his hiring, some people were sceptical of the fact that Twitter
had hired a white man to lead its diversity and inclusion efforts.
Coincidenally, these
exits come shortly after Twitter unveiled its 2016 diversity report, which
revealed that it was making some progress around the hiring of
under-represented minorities. Now, although it’s not necessary that Siminoff’s
and Atwood’s departures could be related, considering the timing, the buzz is
that it could be the biggest reason for their departure.
2.
Bajaj Auto gets Ravi Kyran as
president -HR
Kyran, who was the vice president HR, World Wide Analog at
TI, moved to Pune from Dallas, Texas to join the company.
Ravi Kyran has joined
Bajaj Auto as the president-HR. He shifted base to Pune from Dallas, Texas to
take up the new responsibilities.
The position was
lying vacant since July 12 when Bajaj Auto lost its HR head, Amrutkumar
Rath in a car accident on the Mumbai-Pune expressway. The unfortunate
incident also took the life of Rath’s wife. However, their two children—18-year
old Adisha and 10-year old Alman— escaped with serious injuries and are
currently under medical care. The incident happened around 60 km from Pune, at
Malavli, when they hit the median of the highway.
Kyran has been with
Texas Instruments for long years. He joined the company in 2004 as manager-HR
and moved up the ladder to become the vice president HR, World Wide Analog.
Kyran will head the
entire HR function for Bajaj Auto.
3.
After Richard Rekhy, Arun M. Kumar takes over as chairman
& CEO of KPMG India
Kumar will fulfil a five-year term, beginning 5 February,
2017.
After its former CEO, Richard Rekhy, resigned
in November last year, KPMG India recently elected Arun M. Kumar as chairman
and chief executive officer of the firm for a five-year term, beginning 5
February , 2017.
Kumar has been elected by the KPMG India Board
and ratified by the India Partners. The firm executed a well-defined governance
process for the selection of the CEO that aligns with the objective of building
on its success as well as attracting the best talent available for this role.
Kumar brings in vast international leadership
experience to KPMG India, including his tenure in public service in the United
States for the last three years, as assistant secretary of commerce for Global
Markets and director general of US and foreign commercial service in the Obama
Administration. In that role, he led a global organisation of senior
professionals present in 78 countries and all the 50 states in the US, and
served with distinction.
On behalf of the US
government, Kumar also worked to strengthen commercial ties between India and
the United States, and played a key role in establishing the India-US strategic
& commercial dialogue and a renewed India-US CEO forum.
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