He is now the chief executive of Bharti's international operations as well as joint managing director.

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Gopal Vittal, currently group director for special projects, was named joint managing director.

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Pat Grant, joint managing director of Norfrost, a Caithness company employing 350 people making fridges, has joined Business in Scotland.

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Bypassing his investment bankers, Mittal, along with Akhil Gupta, Bharti's joint managing director, led the negotiations with Vodafone over several months.

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Joint managing director Ian Thurgood said last year the business put on triple shifts for the first time, operating around the clock, to meet demand.

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Joint managing director Ian Thurgood said that "80% of our current staff (of 300 workers) live in the village and we expect to employ 500 people by 2030".

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At the top rung Kamath has groomed lieutenants such as Chatterjee and joint managing director and CFO Chanda Kochhar to contend for leadership of the bank if Kamath retires when his contract expires in 2009.

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Raj Jain, the managing director of the Bharti Walmart joint venture, confirmed to the Associated Press in Mumbai by email on Saturday that the American retail juggernaut plans to open an undisclosed number of stores over the next 18 months.

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