Avon Products, Inc.: hired Nilesh Patel as senior vice president and president, Asia Pacific Region, effective Feb. 3, 2014. He will report to Sheri McCoy, Avon’s chief executive officer, and will join the company’s executive committee. Patel will oversee all of Avon’s Asia Pacific business. In this role, he will be responsible for stabilizing the market, and strengthening and growing the Avon business throughout the region. Patel joins Avon following a 26-year career with the Heinz Company, wh...