-- Michael M. Bala has been appointed Country Manager of HPs online printing service Snapfish. Bala joins from the Bharatmatrimony group, where he was Business Head of Clickjobs.com. He has over 14 years of experience across the Internet, advertising, marketing and sales. [via Channeltimes]

-- The BharatMatrimony Group has appointed P. Gopalakrishnan as Chief Marketing Officer; Gopal has 20 years of experience in Sales, Marketing and SBU management. He joins from personal care product company Cavinkare where he was VP-International Business; this is the second instance of a web company appointing an exec with an FMCG background to a marketing role: Web18 had appointed Neeraj Sanan of Dabur as Marketing Head, earlier this year. [via release]

-- Here’s the official announcement of Sumant Kasliwal being appointed Head of Business Planning & Strategy for Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) Online Service Business. Two months ago, we’d reported on Kasliwal’s move to Microsoft from STAR India, where he was Business Head & Vice President of Interactive Media (Internet).

-- Aravind Sampathkumaran has been appointed Chief Product Office of asklaila, a local search startup funded by Matrix Partners. He joins from Microsoft, where he was responsible for the development and launch of the Microsoft Affiliate Network in the U.S.. He had also been involved int he launch of MSN in India, and led the global distribution for MSN Search. He has over 14 years in technology marketing, of which 10 were at Microsoft. [via release]