Punit Renjen, the former CEO of Deloitte Consulting, and Rajesh Subramaniam, CEO and president-elect of FedEx, have their names on the list
Washington: US President Joe Biden has announced his intent to appoint two Indian-Americans to his powerful Export Council which is the principal national advisory committee on international trade, a PTI report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
The president announced on Tuesday, Feb 3, a list of members he intends to appoint to the council, according to a White House press release.
Punit Renjen, former CEO of Deloitte Consulting, and Rajesh Subramaniam, CEO and president-elect of FedEx, have their names on the list of members the President intends to appoint as members of the influential President’s Export Council.
The council will be headed by Mark Edin, chairman of Kastle Systems.
More than two dozen leaders from the corporate sector, labour, real estate, national security and law, have been included in the President’s Export Council.
Prominent among them are Karen S. Lynch, president and CEO of CVS Health; John Lawler, the chief financial officer of Ford; Gareth Joyce, CEO at Proterra; Brett Hart, president of United Airlines; Beth Ford, president and CEO of Land O’Lakes; and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano R. Amon.
“The Council advises the President on government policies and programmes that affect US trade performance; promotes export expansion; and provides a forum for discussing and resolving trade-related problems among the business, industrial, agricultural, labour, and government sectors,” the White House said.
On December 31 last, Renjen retired as Deloitte Global CEO after occupying the top position since June 2015. He will now serve as Deloitte Global CEO Emeritus.
Subramaniam, as President and Chief Executive Officer of FedEx Corporation, is responsible for providing strategic direction for all FedEx operating companies.
He is chair of the five-person Executive Committee, which plans and executes the corporation’s strategic business activities.
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