Rohan Deshpande has been appointed as Associate Director, Wireless Technology, at Hungama. In his new role, he will be responsible for creating and executing the technology roadmap. In addition, he would analyse the variety of technologies available and identify the systems needed to architect a complete product offering that fits Hungama’s goals. Deshpande brings with him eight years’ experience in the telecom sector. He began his career with Tata Infotech as engineer and has also worked with Bharti Cellular Ltd (Airtel) as Senior Engineer-IN & VAS, Western Region. He also worked with ADC (Metrica) Software Ltd, USA, as Technical Account Manager for India & South East Asia, and SmartTrust AB as Pre-Sales and Program Manager.

Ramita Chaudhury has been appointed as Station Head of Big FM Kolkata. She replaces Bodhayan Roychoudhury. Chaudhury will report to Rohit Dhar, Regional Director-East, Big FM. In her new role, Chaudhury would be looking after the overall functioning of the Kolkata station, including developing on-air properties for leading brands and providing integrated marketing solutions to clients. She had earlier worked in Hutchison Telecom, where she was responsible for the successful launch of Hutch (nor Vodafone) operations at the state level across West Bengal, apart from effective ground activation programmes, Wunderman India, Imagine Advertising, DIREM, and Lowe as Group Account Head, where she had handled clients like Maruti, Panasonic, Convergys, and Moving Pictures Ltd, among others.

Manoj Gunawardena has been appointed as CEO of Sri Lankan Airlines. Gunawardena has been in the airline for over 25 years and has over 17 years of direct sales and commercial experience with the airline. He was appointed as Head of Worldwide Sales in May 2006 and is currently responsible for the airline’s global sales activities. Prior to being appointed Head of Worldwide Sales, he was Regional Manager, UK, Europe and Americas, a position that he held from 2005.