Changing places: Kinney joins the NetSuite board

NetSuite, which sells on-demand business software, has appointed Catherine Kinney, former New York Stock Exchange president, to its board.

Mrs Kinney served as NYSE president and co-chief operating officer from 2002 to 2007 and then as group executive vice-president and head of global listings at NYSE Euronext, from which she has just retired.

She joined the NYSE in 1974.

• Subramaniam “Ram” Ramadorai, chief executive of Tata Consultancy Services, has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his contribution to Indo-British economic relations.

The award was given to Mr Ramadorai in Mumbai by Vicki Treadell, British deputy high commissioner of Western India.

Mr Ramadorai became CEO in 1996, and built TCS into a $6bn global software company. “The UK and India share a special economic, cultural and political relationship that continues to grow. TCS is proud to have played a role in strengthening these ties,” he said.

In 2005, the then UK prime minister Tony Blair presented Mr Ramadorai with the UK Trade & Investment Special Recognition Award for TCS’s contribution to India-UK economic ties.

• Kees ten Nijenhuis, a former Wipro executive, has joined software company Mastek as its managing director for Europe. He replaces Joe Venkataraman, who becomes director of strategic initiatives for Mastek Group.

• Dimension Data, the IT services company, has promoted Ton van Horssen to managing director for the UK. Mr Van Horssen has been with the company for seven years, most recently holding the position of managing director of the Netherlands business.

• HP has appointed David Donatelli as its executive vice-president for enterprise servers, storage and networking. He reports to Ann Livermore, an executive vice-president at the company’s technology solutions group at HP.

Mr Donatelli joins HP from EMC, where he was president of the company’s storage division, and he replaces Scott Stallard, who retires from HP after 34 years.