Microsoft Says India Unit Chairman Quits

The chairman of Microsoft's Indian unit, Ravi Venkatesan, has decided to leave the company, the second top official to quit the software giant in six months. Microsoft said in a statement it would name a successor in the near future.

Venkatesan will work with Jean-Philippe Courtois, President of Microsoft International, to ensure a smooth transition, the company said in the statement. Microsoft India's former managing director, Rajan Anandan, who left the company last year, was named head of Google's India operations last month.

Indian technology companies are also seeing a churn in top management with local media reporting India's No. 2 software services firm Infosys Technologies was likely to replace its chief executive in April. Third-ranked Wipro replaced the joint chief executives of its core outsourcing business earlier this year with a company veteran, T.K. Kurien, to make the organisation structure simpler.

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