APPOINTED

Raj Kumar Dhoot has taken over as Datacom's Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Anish Basu has been appointed the new CEO of Logia Group Ltd. for its recently established operations in India and the Asia-Pacific region.

Sudip Kumar has been appointed by Venture Infotek as Executive Vice-President, sales and marketing. Prior to this, he was in charge of sales, product, and business development at Tata Communications Ltd.

Mandeep Bhatia has been named the Business Head of National Long Distance by Reliance Globalcom. Earlier, he was COO of consumer mobile business at Bharti Airtel,

Dominic Chambers has joined LG Electronics as its European Marketing Director (MD). He is the former head of UK brand and marketing at mobile phone operator Vodafone.

James O'Neill has been named by Siemens Enterprise Communication as its new CEO. James was earlier CEO of CompuDyne.

Sudip Nandy has been named as the Chief Executive Officer by Aricent. Previously, Nandy was the President of the Technology Media and Telecom Business Unit at Wipro.

Vijay Rangineni has been appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer of Satyam BPO. He is the unit's current Chief Operating Officer.

Gayatri Balaji has been named the Chief Operating Officer by Intelenet Global Services Pvt. Ltd.

Sunil Jose is the new managing director of Sybase India. Sunil had earlier worked in HCL and IBM.

Neal Campbell has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer by the TrafficCast International, a Wisconsin-based provider of digital traffic data. He is a former executive of Motorola.

Yinan Li has been named as the Chief Technology Officer of Chinese internet search engine giant, Baidu. Li joins Baidu after a stint with Huawei where he worked as chief telecommunications scientist and vice president.

John DiLullo is taking over as President of Avaya in Asia Pacific.

Peter Kelly has been appointed as new Enterprise Director of Vodafone. Michel Combes has also been appointed as chief executive, Europe, of the organization from October 1.

Siegfried Russwurm will join Nokia Siemens Networks as Executive Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG.

PROMOTED

Rajnish Kaul is the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Airtel, Andhra Pradesh circle. Prior to this, Kaul was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) (Mobility) for the southern hub of the company.

RESIGNED

Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook, will depart from the social networking major in about a month's time to set up his own firm.

Venkatesh Roddam, Chief Executive Officer of Satyam's BPO arm, has submitted his resignation. Shailesh Shah, Satyam Computers' Chief Strategy Officer has also put in his papers.

Jaithirth Rao, popularly known as Jerry Rao, announced his resignation from the advisory board of mPhasis, an EDS company citing personal interests to pursue as the reason.