2009’s most talked about IT resignations

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Satyam lost three senior support managers at BPO unit this year. Satyam BPO Global Head (Human Resources) Naresh Jhangiani, V Satyanandam (Head of corporate services) and Kulwinder Singh (Head of marketing-Asia Pacific) resigned following the disclosure of fraud.

A company spokesperson had then said, “They were looking for better opportunities outside."

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India's third-largest IT services provider Wipro saw its chief marketing officer (CMO) Jessie Paul leaving the company to start her own venture.

Paul’s new venture, Paul Writer Strategic Advisory, will be a marketing platform for B2B early-stage companies in the traditional and new media space like social blogging.

In her four-and-a-half years at Wipro, Paul was instrumental in globalising Wipro’s marketing team, about 10% of which is non-Indian now. She also created the shared-marketing unit for Wipro Technologies and Wipro Infotech, besides devising strategies to build the Wipro brand.

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US software giant Microsoft announced that its chief financial officer Chris Liddell will leave the company at the end of the year.

Fifty-one year old Liddell, a New Zealander, will be replaced by Peter Klein, 47, currently the CFO of Microsoft's Business Division.

Liddell joined Microsoft in May 2005 after serving as CFO of International Paper Co and chief executive of New Zealand's Carter Holt Harvey Ltd. He said he was looking to expand his career beyond being a CFO.

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The embattled Satyam Computer Services saw another top business leader, Subu D Subramanian, leaving the company this year. Subramaian, Sr Vice-President, was the global head of manufacturing and automotives vertical that according to reports contributes about $400 million, almost 20% of the company’s receivables. Keshab Panda, who joined Satyam in 1995, takes over from Subramanian.

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Google Inc CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple Inc’s board, amid intensifying rivalry between the two companies and concern that sharing directors may hurt competition.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement, "Schmidt’s effectiveness as a director will be “significantly diminished” as he needs to rescue himself from more meetings because of potential conflicts of interest."

Google has expanded into computer and mobile-phone software, creating direct competitors to Apple’s products. Google is developing a computer operating system based on its Chrome Web browser, competing with software from companies including Apple. Google’s Android mobile-phone operating system also competes with Apple’s iPhone software.