Mumbai: Pyramid Saimira Group has appointed Sushil Borkar as group vice president – corporate compliance and vigilance.

His key responsibilities include intelligence, counter intelligence, vigilance, leakage prevention and internal rule compliances.

Pyramid Saimira Group group chairman P S Saminathan said, "Entertainment industry, especially the cinema industry so far, has been suffering from lack of transparency, which has ceded many wrong practices in the industry. It is imperative for our group to have a unified vigilance, leakage prevention and other business intelligence measures. Borkar is a very senior and experienced police professional and we are happy to welcome him into the growing professional family of Pyramid Saimira Group."

Borkar retired from the Indian Police Service in May 2005 after 38 years in service. During 2004 -2005, he served in the capacities of deputy general of police and inspector general of police of the state of Karnataka. He has also held various positions with the department of vigilance and crime, forestry and railways.