1. Eishin Chihana appointed Yamaha Motors India Chairman.
On Thursday, Yamaha Motors India announced the appointment of Eishin Chihana as its new Chairman. According to the official communique, Eishin Chihana has been associated with Yamaha Motor Company and its group companies across the world since 1991.
The communique further states that Chihana brings strong expertise of operating across various verticals, to the table. He has been leading sales, marketing and business management, with a major focus on motorcycle business operations in European, North American, African, Middle Eastern and ASEAN markets.
Speaking about his appointment as chairman of Yamaha Motor India Group, Chihana said that India is a diverse country with a huge customer base and immense potential. "With the majority of its population comprising the youth, it gives us the opportunity to penetrate the market by meeting their evolving expectations through Yamaha's leading technological advancements and engineering prowess,'' Chihana further said in a statement.
He further added that Yamaha will continue to innovate and bring new products to the market. It is going to launch a new brand strategy 'The Call of the Blue', to further strengthen its position in the Indian market.
2. Accion Labs gets Poornima Prasad as global CPO
Prasad moves from Tech Mahindra, where she was global head – HR, based out of Plano, Texas. Poornima Prasad has been appointed the global chief people officer, Accion Labs, the cloud and digital transformation services company.
Backed by over two decades of experience, Prasad has moved from Tech Mahindra, where she was global head – HR for over six years, based out of Texas.
In the initial part of her career, Prasad was group manager – HR at Infosys BPO, at Bangalore. There, she was responsible for the end to end functioning of learning and development activities for over 18,000 employees spread across six locations in India and five abroad. Six years later, she joined Infosys as business leader – HR, in 2008, at Texas.
In four years’ time, she was promoted to head – compensation and benefits, compliance – Americas. In this role, it was her responsibility to drive strategic compensation and benefit programmes for the region to stay aligned with the market trends and better attract and retain talent. By 2013, she was heading HR for the data science and analytics unit. For almost one and a half years, she was able to successfully drive the talent strategy in line with the unique needs of data science and analytics.
After a successful almost seven-year long tenure at Infosys, Prasad moved to Tech Mahindra in Aril 2015, as the global head – HR, network services and head – HR, Americas Region.
Prasad, who postgraduated in psychology from Bangalore University, specialising in clinical psychology, also has a PhD in psychology – organisational behaviour.
Her proven excellence in crisis management, immigrations and mobility, strategic planning, global HR management, performance management as well as learning & development will stand her in good stead in this new assignment at Accion Labs.
3. Tata Technologies’ Anupal Banerjee joins FSS as CPO
Banerjee moves to Financial Software & Systems after spending five years at Tata Technologies Anupal Banerjee, who recently announced his departure from Tata Technologies — where he was CHRO — on social media, has now joined Financial Software & Systems (FSS), a technology company providing payment software solutions and payment processors, as its chief people officer.
Banerjee spent close to five years at Tata Technologies (TTL) as its CHRO, leading the Company’s HR function. When Banerjee had shared the news of his exit from TTL, he did hint that his next assignment would be in the online payment and fintech space.
“I take the experiences I’ve garnered here at Tata Technologies and leverage it to bring value to people’s lives. That’s why, I’m very excited to be joining a bunch of great people who are attempting to enrich the lives of hundreds of millions of people by making payments/banking easier,” he had said then.
Prior to TTL, Banerjee was the senior vice president – HR at Viacom 18.
At the start of his career, Banerjee worked with Ashok Leyland at its management-development centre. After three years with Ashok Leyland, he moved to Infosys, where he stayed put for close to six and a half years, with his last position being that of senior HR manager. In 2008, Banerjee got the opportunity to work with WNS Global services as the senior vice president and head of total rewards, HRMS and payroll. Two years later, he moved to Capgemini as the head of global rewards where he spent the next three years.
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