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Arvind Movva included in the list of 33 ASC Industry Leaders Under 40

Arvind Movva is the only Indian American doctor included in the list of 33 Ambulatory Surgery Center Industry leaders who — despite their continued success, far-reaching influence and deep knowledge of the industry — have yet to reach age 40. Arvind Movva, MD (35). Dr. Movva is currently CEO of Heartland Clinic, Valley View Anesthesia and Regional SurgiCenter, an eight-OR multi-specialty ASC in Illinois. He also practices as a gastroenterologist and serves as co-founder and consultant with Movva Medical Consulting. Dr. Movva joined Gastroenterology Consultants upon completion of his fellowship at the Medical College of Georgia in 2010. He offers a full range of gastroenterology care, including ERCP/EUS, hemorrhoidal banding and a cure for Barrett's Esophagus. Dr. Movva received his MD from The Chicago Medical School and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago.  

K V Chowdary appointed CBDT member

Senior Income Tax officer Kosaraju Veeraiah Chowdary was today appointed member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in the Finance Ministry. K. V. Chowdary is an officer of the Indian Revenue Service. With a Masters degree in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, he joined the IRS in 1978 through the Civil Services Examination, he was till now serving as the Director General (Investigations) in the national capital and was heading a number of high-profile I-T probes including the 2G spectrum allocation case and the HSBC Geneva taxpayers list. With his appointment, the CBDT will function with full strength. It had a few vacancies for some time. The CBDT has six members apart from the Chairman and is the apex body for policy and administrative issues related to direct taxes and the Income Tax department. Chowdary is credited with initiating a host of new steps to enhance and build up the intelligence and investigation set up of the Inco...

7Seas Entertainment: Ahead of the wave

For six years from 1999, Lingamaneni Maruti Sankar , with a B.E. and an MBA from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, was working at VisualSoft (sold to Megasoft later) in the product delivery and development team. While working there, he was visualising an enterprise of his own in the area of digital games, a fledgling area that was just catching the imagination of IT professionals. He quit the firm in 2006 and worked on the blueprint of his start-up for about six to eight months.   Selling the idea to angel investors was, as expected, a tough task.   “I believe in developing a pool of games and building a repository of intellectual property. I do not believe in developing a game to sell it once for all. I am here to a play a long-term game,” Maruti Sanker , now the Managing Director of 7Seas Entertainment , says.   While betting his personal savings from his VisualSoft job, he went on to sell the idea. He raised Rs 1 crore from an angel investor...

Rochester Hills Councilmember Ravi Yalamanchi Seeking Seat on College Board of Trustees

Ravi Yalamanchi is one of 13 candidates running for 2 spots on the OCC board. Rochester Hills City Councilmember Ravi Yalamanchi is looking to add a new duty to his long list of community involvements: that of Oakland Community College Trustee.   Yalamanchi is vying for a six-year term on the college's governing board this November. It's a nonpartisan, volunteer position. If elected, Yalamanchi will still be able to keep his spot on City Council. In his campaign flier, Yalamanchi says he will "promote quality education at an affordable price, promote curriculum that aligns with sector needs and growth areas, promote technology and training in vocational and technical trades, and promote collaboration with business, government and nonprofits." Yalamanchi is the CEO of Metro Community Development . Yalamanchi is one of 13 candidates for two six-year terms on the board of trustees. Other candidates are: Pamala Davis of Clawson Clay Jansson of Milford D...

Anudeep Kodali and Taylor Fritz wins doubles title at the U.S.T.A Boys 14 National Tennis Championship

Anudeep Kodali and Taylor wins doubles title at the U.S.T.A Boys 14 National Tennis Championship held Aug. 5-10 at San Antonio’s McFarlin Tennis Center. Taylor Fritz and his doubles partner Anudeep Kodali of Durham, N.C, the No. 1 seeds, dispatched the No. 3 team of Lane Leschly( Atherton, Calif.) and Mwendwa Mbithi ( Succasunna, N.J.) 6-0, 6-1 in the championship match.

Boy from Andhra Pradesh making waves in U.K.

      Oxford University PG topper Samara Kolli. The way Samarasimha Kolli acquired knowledge is astounding to say the least . “Mathematics is essentially a language. Mathematics and philosophy are like the hardware of a computer and every other subject the software. Maths and philosophy teach us how to think creatively and analyse, learning other subjects becomes very easy,” says Samarasimha Kolli (called Samara in short). Samara is one of the toppers of his class at Merton College, University of Oxford, in the subjects of mathematics and philosophy. With mathematics and philosophy being his passion, he wants to pursue Ph.D. in them.   Before diving headlong into academics again, he has come to India to discover his roots. Samara spent the first two years of his life in Madhira in Khammam district, where he was born. His mother Padmasri Chekuri belongs to the village. His father Prasanth, an anaesthesiologist, belongs to Jangaon in Warangal. ...

Kony acquires Australia’s Sky Technologies

Kony Solutions continues to accelerate and consolidate its position in the worldwide mobile enterprise services market with its acquisition of Australian SAP-certified mobility solutions provider, Sky Technologies.   Kony CEO, Raj Koneru, said the acquisition of the Melbourne-based Sky was part of the company’s ongoing strategy to simplify enterprise mobility and made Kony the “undisputed mobile and multichannel application platform leader, with a strong roster of customers of all sizes, across multiple industries and regions." Koneru says the acquisition brings together Sky’s “deep enterprise expertise and large installed base of SAP mobile customers with Kony’s award-winning mobile and multichannel application platform, packaged mobile applications, and mobile application management (MAM) solutions.” “The resulting solution will enable corporations of all sizes to accelerate time to revenue and time to market by harnessing highly efficient mobile technologies for both bus...