1.
Staffing
provider, Quess Corp, separates chairman and MD roles
The Indian business services company also appointed
a new CFO.
Quess Corp, the Indian business services staffing provider globally, has
separated the roles of chairman and managing director. Following this move,
henceforth, Suraj Moraje, who is the group CEO and executive director, will be
promoted to group CEO and managing director with effect from April 1. Ajit
Isaac, who is the current executive chairman and MD, will continue in the role
of executive chairman. N. Ravi Vishwanath will be the CFO starting April 1.
Ravi Vishwanath is moving from Teamlease, where he was CFO. He has also served
as finance director at Sun Microsystems. Vishwanath will step into the shoes of
present CFO, Subramanian Ramakrishnan, who will leave the Company on March 31
to pursue an entrepreneurial venture, but continue to play advisor to Quess
Corp. Moraje expressed his gratitude to Ramakrishnan for his invaluable
“contributions to Quess over the last two years” which strengthened the
Company’s balance sheet, improved controls, and drove investor relation
practices.
2.
100% placements at IIM
Amritsar’s summer placements for the 6th MBA batch
The top
quartile average stipend and the highest stipend offered were Rs 99,207 and Rs
1,70,000, respectively.
Amidst the uncertainties brought on by the pandemic, IIM Amritsar has
successfully concluded summer placements for the MBA batch 2020-22, with 100%
placements. This was the Institute’s largest MBA batch till date, with 212
students, that is, 50 per cent more than the last batch. Interestingly, 33 per
cent of the batch comprises girl students and the batch has students from more
than 24 states in India. The top quartile average stipend and the highest
stipend offered were Rs 99,207 and Rs 1,70,000, respectively. The students were
given opportunities in all areas of management, including marketing, finance,
operations, business analytics, HR, and general management. The entire process
was held virtually, as has been the case at most MBA institutes this year,
owing to the pandemic.
3.
TalentSprint
and Google’s 3rd cohort to nurture 500 women engineers
The edtech platform
launched TalentSprint WE to reduce gender disparity in the technology space. TalentSprint,
educational technology platform and NSE group company, has announced that the
third cohort of the pioneering Women Engineers Programme, or WE, with support
from Google, will begin in May 2021. Conceived in 2019, TalentSprint WE aims to
reduce the gender disparity in the tech industry. The response has been
overwhelming, with the first two cohorts having received 27,000 applications,
of which 220 participants were invited to join the programme. Encouraged by the
positive response, this third cohort is being scaled up to accommodate 500
participants, targeting first-year women engineering students across India.
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