27 March 2015

#RuthPorat has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of world’s largest search engine giant #Google

.She will succeed Patrick Pichette who had announced his retirement on 10 March 2015 and assume charge on 26 May 2015. As CFO of Google she will directly report to Larry Page, CEO and Co-Founder of Google. Prior to this appointment Ruth was working as CFO at Morgan Stanley. She joined Morgan Stanley in 1987. Since then she had severed at various posts and had played several key roles at the company. She has served as Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group, co-Head of Technology Investment Banking and Vice Chairman of Investment Banking. Porat also was the lead banker on numerous technology financing rounds, including for Amazon, eBay, Netscape, Priceline and Verisign as well as for The Blackstone Group, General Electric (GE) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)



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Indian-American novelist #AkhilSharma’s novel #FamilyLife has won the prestigious Folio Prize 2015. His novel was among the eight shortlisted books from 80 fictional works and was chosen as the best fiction novel published in the United Kingdom in 2014. Family Life is Sharma’s second novel and took him 13 years to write. About Akhil Sharma Sharma was born in Delhi and later in 1979 immigrated to US along with his family. His first novel was An Obedient Father published in 2000. It has won the prestigious PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award in 2001. His stories also have been published in The New Yorker and in Atlantic Monthly. These stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories and also in O. Henry Prize Collections. In 2007, he was named as one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists.

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