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Harsh Ranjan takes on vice president role at JPMorganChase
NEW YORK: JPMorganChase has promoted Harsh Ranjan to vice president, growth strategy and business management for self-directed investing, strengthening leadership at its fast-growing retail investing platform.
Based in New York, Ranjan will drive growth strategy, customer acquisition and business management for the bank’s self-directed investing business, a key pillar in its push to capture digitally native investors and long-term assets.
He steps up from senior associate, acquisition strategy, where he worked on scaling customer growth through data-led initiatives and cross-functional execution. The elevation reflects the firm’s focus on building depth in strategy roles tied directly to performance and expansion.
Before joining JPMorganChase, Ranjan built a varied career across consulting, operations and engineering. He worked as a consultant at EY-Parthenon, advised clients with tuck advisors and engaged in research at the tuck school of business at Dartmouth. Earlier, he served as a field engineer at Schlumberger and led operations at BRND studio, gaining hands-on exposure to complex, execution-heavy environments.
An alumnus of IIT Bombay, Ranjan brings a mix of analytical rigour and operational discipline to the role, shaped by experience across boardrooms and field sites alike.
As self-directed investing gathers pace and margins hinge on scale, JPMorganChase is placing its bet on leaders who can turn strategy into sustained growth. In that race, Ranjan now has the wheel.
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Godrej clarifies ‘GI’ identifier after logo similarity debate
Says GI is not a logo, will not replace Godrej signature across products.
MUMBAI: In a branding storm where shapes did the talking, Godrej is now spelling things out. Godrej Industries Group (GIG) has issued a clarification on its newly introduced ‘GI’ identifier, addressing questions around its purpose and design following a wave of online criticism. At the centre of the debate were two concerns: whether the new mark replaces the long-standing Godrej logo, and whether its geometric design mirrors other corporate identities.
The company has drawn a clear line. The Godrej signature logo, it said, remains unchanged and continues to be the sole logo across all consumer-facing products and services. The ‘GI’ mark, by contrast, is not a logo but a corporate group identifier intended for use alongside the Godrej signature or company name, and aimed at stakeholders such as investors, media and talent rather than consumers.
The need for such a distinction stems from the 2024 restructuring of the broader Godrej Group into two separate business entities. With both continuing to operate under the same Godrej name and signature, the identifier is positioned as a way to differentiate the Godrej Industries Group at a corporate level.
The rollout, however, triggered a broader conversation on design originality. Critics pointed to similarities between the GI mark’s geometric composition and logos used by companies globally, raising questions about distinctiveness.
Responding to this, GIG said its intellectual property and legal review found that such overlaps are common in minimalist, geometry-led design systems. Basic forms such as circles and rectangles appear across dozens of brand identities worldwide, the company noted.
It added that the identifier emerged from an extensive design process and was chosen for its simplicity, allowing it to sit alongside the Godrej signature without competing visually. While acknowledging that elemental shapes may appear less distinctive in isolation, the group emphasised that the mark is part of a broader identity system that includes a custom typeface, sonic branding and other proprietary elements.
Following legal and ethical assessments, the company said it found no impediment to using the identifier, reiterating that the GI mark is a corporate tool not a consumer-facing symbol.
In short, the logo isn’t changing but the conversation around it certainly has.
