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Avon India appoints Romulus Marian Sirbu as MD
MUMBAI: Avon Beauty Products India has appointed Romulus Marian Sirbu as the managing director with effect from 7 July 2014.
An industry veteran, Sirbu will be responsible for the strategic growth and sustainable increase of Avon’s market share in India. His extensive knowledge and global experience will help develop and implement business strategies to meet the company’s growth, market share and profitability objectives.
He said,” I feel privileged to have this opportunity to join the board of Avon India. India is an important growth market and the company has been focusing immensely on further strengthening its business. I am elated to be a part of Avon once again. I’m looking forward to strategic positioning of the brand and enhance its presence across India.”
This is a homecoming for Sirbu, who worked with Avon in central and eastern Europe for a period of 12 years, where he started as a representative and progressed to sales leadership and commercial roles. Eventually he became country manager for Moldova and Serbia and Montenegro. He then moved out for a brief period to gain differentiated perspective of the industry and was associated with Life Care, as its CEO, overseeing the business in Romania and Hungary.
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Gurpreet Singh named President of DishTV Alumni Network
Former Dish TV executive to lead community building and collaboration.
MUMBAI: Back to the dish, but this time it’s about connections, not channels Gurpreet Singh is returning to familiar territory with a new mandate that swaps subscribers for relationships. Singh has been appointed President of the DishTV Alumni Network, a move aimed at strengthening ties among former employees and building a more engaged professional community around the Dish TV ecosystem. The initiative reflects a growing trend among large organisations to formalise alumni networks as platforms for collaboration, mentorship and business opportunities.
The appointment draws on Singh’s deep-rooted history with Dish TV, where he held multiple leadership roles over nearly a decade. As National Business Head between June 2019 and September 2020, he oversaw profit and loss as well as operations, managing revenues of Rs 6,000 crore and leading a team of around 1,250 employees across the country. His tenure included working alongside two regional business heads and 16 circle heads, underscoring the scale of operations he handled.
Prior to that, Singh served as Executive Vice President and National Head for Sales and Revenue from 2016 to 2019, and earlier as Senior Vice President and National Head for Sales and Revenue. He also briefly led international operations as Country Head for Sri Lanka, further expanding his exposure across markets.
His broader career spans leadership roles across telecom and consumer businesses, including a stint as Chief Operating Officer at Bharti Airtel’s Malawi operations, senior leadership roles at Reliance Communications, and earlier positions at Hindustan Sanitaryware and Kodak India, where he spent over a decade.
In his new role, Singh is expected to focus on reconnecting former employees, fostering collaboration, and building a structured alumni ecosystem that leverages shared experience and industry networks. As companies increasingly recognise the long-term value of their extended workforce, the DishTV Alumni Network appears set to turn nostalgia into a strategic asset, one connection at a time.
