Satyam is dead; long live Mahindra Satyam. The troubled Hyderabad -based outsourced IT services player has been rebranded by Tech Mahindra, the company which became its new owner in April after paying Rs 17.56 billion rupees ( $ 351 million) for a 31 percent stake and earmarking another 10 billion rpees for an additional 20- percent buy up.
On Tuesday, Tech Mahindra announced the appointment of a new CEO for Mahindra Satyam -- C.P. Gurnani -- while Vineet Nayar's role as Executive Vice Chairman will now embrace both Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam. Gurnani was President of Tech Mahindra's international operations.
Also announced: the appointment of S. Durgashankar as Mahindra Satyam CFO. He has been Tech Mahindra's Vice President for Mergers and Acquisition and presumably the person who helped put together the Satyam acquisition.
The appointments seem to indicate that Mahindra wants to move on from the interim arrangements that the government had made to lead Satyam during its early days and weeks after the scandal broke in December 2008.
