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  • Maxus strengthens top management in south; appoints Anil Sathiraju as GM

    Maxus strengthens top management in south; appoints Anil Sathiraju as GM

    MUMBAI: In a move to further strengthen their top management, global media and communication planning firm Maxus has appointed Anil Sathiraju as general manager Maxus South 2.

     

    Maxus South has been growing rapidly and handles some of the biggest clients of the region. Sathiraju will report to Maxus South India & South Asia managing p Sanchayeeta Verma.

     

    With Sathiraju coming on board, Maxus consolidates the senior management strength in the South, along with Kishankumar Shyamalan as GM South 1.

     

    Maxus South Asia managing director Kartik Sharma said, “Our South operations have been the trail blazers in many areas for Maxus and we are looking forward to scale new heights. Anil is an important and strategic addition keeping this in mind.”

     

    Commenting on the new appointment Verma added, “The media landscape is possibly at its most dynamic state today. It’s a time of rapid and big changes. Not only do we have to stay on top of this and ensure that we incorporate the new state of things in the way we do the communication planning for our brands, we also have to ensure executional excellence so that strategy translates to reality. On top of it, in today’s uncertain economic conditions, our media monies have to result into tangible business results for our brands. All of this means, more engagement and more speed at the senior management level. This prompted us to create two distinct SBUs within Maxus South and bring in the best people to man them, i.e, Anil and Kishan. Anil typifies Maxus PACE and we are delighted to have him on board.”

     

    Elaborating on his new role, Sathiraju said, “Moving from an agency after 15 yrs was not at all easy for me. Maxus gave me that confidence and motivation to take the leap. With the vision that Maxus has, and the kind of work that they do, my decision making became that much easier.”

     

    Armed with an experience of 19 years, Sathiraju worked with Mudra Max prior to this.

  • Uninor makes leadership changes in telecom circles

    Uninor makes leadership changes in telecom circles

    NEW DELHI: Uninor has made leadership changes in its three circles – east, west and south. Additionally, the telecom company has also appointed a circle business head (CBH) for Assam.

     

    Uttar Pradesh (West) CBH KC Narendran will take over as UP (East) CBH, whereas Satish Kumar Kannan will move to UP (West) as its CBH.

     

    Shrinath Kotian, the current sales and distribution head of Maharashtra and Goa circles, will replace Kannan as the circle business head of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

     

    Uninor has also appointed Anil Kumar as the Assam CBH, where its service will be commercially launched later this year.

     

    All changes are effective 1 June this year.

     

    “The current organisational changes are example of how Uninor believes in growing and developing its own people to take newer challenges. I am confident that they will do their best to further grow our business in their respective circles. I wish all of them a great success and request all of us to provide necessary support in making Uninor successful,” said Telewings Communications Services (Uninor) CEO Vivek Sood.

     

    Narendran joined Uninor in 2008, and has served as CMO and head of sales & distribution in UP (W) before taking the helm. He has 23 years of experience in the telecom industry and will be now responsible for UP (East), the largest circle for Uninor. Kannan will take over UP (West) from Narendran.

     

    Kannan, the current CBH for Andhra Pradesh, has been responsible for growing Uninor business to over 5.5 million subscribers in the circle. He had earlier served as the head of marketing AP. He joined Uninor in 2009 from Vodafone India.

     

    The new Assam CBH Anil Kumar has over 18 years of experience in handling distribution, retail channels and cluster strategy. Before being elevated as Assam circle head, Kumar was the sales and distribution head of Maharashtra and Goa circle.

     

    Kotian joined Uninor in 2009. He moved to M&G as sales head in October 2014 from Gujarat where he was the marketing head of circle.

  • Whirlpool India ropes in PepsiCo’s Sunil D’Souza as MD

    Whirlpool India ropes in PepsiCo’s Sunil D’Souza as MD

    MUMBAI: Whirlpool India has roped in PepsiCo’s Sunil D’Souza as its managing director, effective 22 June, 2015.

     

    At PepsiCo, D’Souza was the head of the company’s VIMAPS business unit based out of Malaysia. In his 15 years with PepsiCo, D’Souza has held various senior management positions in Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and India.

     

    Whirlpool Corporation Asia Pacific president and Whirlpool India CMD Arvind Uppal said, “Sunil’s rich and diverse experience across general management, strategy, sales, marketing and innovation in consumer driven industries, coupled with his proven track record in leading and growing large businesses, makes him highly suited to lead Whirlpool India.”

     

    Uppal will continue as Whirlpool India executive chairman of the Board of Directors.

  • The 120 Media Collective overhauls senior management team

    The 120 Media Collective overhauls senior management team

    MUMBAI: The 120 Media Collective, a digitally-inclined company that creates and distributes content for audiences and brands across multiple platforms, has made two senior appointments.

     

    While Shilpa Ambre has joined as chief financial officer for The 120 Media Collective, Vishal Nongbet has been roped in as Sooperfly senior vice president and business head.

     

    Both Ambre and Nongbet will be based in Mumbai and will report to The 120 Media Collective founder and CEO Roopak Saluja.

     

    Ambre will be responsible for all finance, legal affairs and investor relations of The 120 Media Collective and its sub brands – Jack in the Box Worldwide, Sniper, Bang Bang Films and Sooperfly.

     

    Nongbet, on the other hand, has been entrusted with building the Sooperfly team and business and running day-to-day operations including content, distribution and monetization across APAC.

     

    Additionally, Bang Bang Films senior producer Chahna Rupani has been promoted to Sniper executive producer and will primarily be responsible for driving revenues and growth, while ensuring excellence and efficiencies for both commercials and content production.

     

    “The company has undergone a metamorphosis of sorts over the past three years, from being a combined entity of a production company and a social media agency to one that is pushing the boundaries and blurring the lines between communications, entertainment and technology. As we embark on an ambitious growth plan over the next 36 months, bolstering our leadership team with top talent is essential. Keeping the company adequately funded and observing the highest standards of compliance and governance will be key and having someone of Shilpa’s experience and capability overseeing things is of paramount importance,” said Saluja.

     

    Commenting on Nongbet’s appointment, Saluja said, “Our goal with Sooperfly is clearly to capitalize on all that we’ve built up over the past eight plus years- chief among which are our ability to create compelling content and our credibility with brands- to give ourselves a competitive advantage in the digital video space. Only someone of Vishal’s breadth and depth of media experience, which arms him with a profound understanding of mobile and content monetization, can make a success of this.”

     

    Ambre opined, “I am very excited to join the strong and accomplished team at The 120 Media Collective and I’m looking forward to leveraging my experience to support the rapidly growing business operations of the Company and its stakeholders.”

     

    “While the last two decades have been all about the democratisation of content, there has never been a better time than now for advertisers to engage their audiences via owned rather than paid or earned media. Sooperfly will be looking at harnessing the immense talent in the space, building content brands direct to audiences, and finding that sweet spot between content creators and advertisers,” added Nongbet.

  • Carnival Cinemas ropes in Saurabh Saxena as COO

    Carnival Cinemas ropes in Saurabh Saxena as COO

    MUMBAI: Carnival Cinemas has appointed Saurabh Saxena as its chief operating officer (COO).

     

    With over 24 years of experience in the hospitality and entertainment industry, Saxena has previously worked in multiplex companies such as PVR, Fame Cinemas (now Inox Movies), Big Cinemas, Cinemax, Wave Cinemas and Sahara Entertainment. Most recently he was with Sahara India as head of entertainment.

     

    Saxena said, “Carnival is a magnificent company with an incredible team, great vision and now on an advantageous position in the film exhibition sector. It is a great honour to join its leadership team and have the opportunity to build on its success.”

     

    After acquiring HDIL’s Broadway, Reliance’s Big Cinemas and Glitz Cinemas, Carnival now has 346 plus screens operating in the country. It has a vision to have 1000 screens in next two years. With presence in metro cities along with tier 2 and tier 3 cities, Carnival Cinemas aims to offer better movie watching experience across the nation.

     

    It is currently present in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

  • Razorfish Global appoints Samih Fadli as chief intelligence officer

    Razorfish Global appoints Samih Fadli as chief intelligence officer

    MUMBAI: Razorfish Global has appointed Samih Fadli to the newly created position of chief intelligence officer.

     

    Based out of the company’s Seattle office, Fadli will report to Razorfish global chief executive officer Tom Adamski and will serve on the global leadership team.

     

    “Data is the most critical ingredient for business transformation because it allows us to offer clients both human benefit and business impact,” said Adamski.

     

    “Finding the right leader for this role has been one of my highest priorities, and I’m thrilled to welcome Samih to the Razorfish Global team. He brings more than 20 years of global leadership experience and an exceptional track record of managing large, integrated teams across ad tech, data mining and analysis, ecommerce, digital, media and Silicon Valley hi-tech organisations,” he added.

     

    In his new role, Fadli will lead Razorfish Global’s Data Intelligence Practice and expand the organisation’s competitive advantage in Marketing Intelligence and Data Sciences, in areas such as Predictive Marketing and Data Visualisation, Audience Management, Advanced Segmentation and Real-Time Automation. He will also lead the global deployment of the NEXUS Operating System (OS), which integrates customer data and interactions across all major touch points at enterprise scale.

     

    Additionally, Fadli will work closely with leadership across Publicis Sapient to drive innovative customer experience for clients across SapientNitro, Razorfish, Rosetta and DigitasLBi, and build on key collaborative partnerships with some of the world’s leading data technology companies, including Adobe, Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, IBM, Oracle, SAP, and other data intelligence providers.

     

    “Razorfish Global is a world-class brand, and I’m thrilled to join it at a time when Tom and the rest of the leadership team are making a major investment in data and intelligence and prioritizing them as critical to our future success,” said Fadli. 

     

    “I have long admired Razorfish as a leader in customer obsession and business transformation, and I think we have a clear competitive advantage through our ability to create world class experiences built on a better understanding of our clients’ customers,” he added.

     

    Fadli joins Razorfish Global from Gravity4, where he led global engineering and programmatic capabilities across Demand Side Platform (DSP), real-time bidding (RTB) and AppCenter, and managed the integration of the Data Management Persona Store (DMP) capable of multi-channel aggregation of first- and third-party data, including ad exchanges such as AppNexus, FBX, Google DoubleClick.

  • Carat appoints Navaneeta Das as international client president

    Carat appoints Navaneeta Das as international client president

    MUMBAI: Carat has appointed Navaneeta Das as international client president for Mondelez International based out of Singapore for Asia Pacific.

     

    Das will head up the Carat media strategy and planning operations for Mondelez, with responsibilities for the wider Dentsu Aegis Network offering. Longer term she will move into a global role within Carat. Das joins from Johnson & Johnson and will report to Carat Asia Pacific CEO Sean O’Brien.

     

    O’Brien said “Nav’s balanced exposure to digital and traditional media and her knowledge of strategy, data and trading makes her the right fit for us as we continue to redefine the business value we deliver to our clients through media. Mondelez International is an innovative business, looking to drive significant growth, and with Nav’s expertise now within Carat we are in a great position to continue to support them on this journey.”

     

    With 17 years’ of media and marketing experience, Das previously worked at Mindshare, at WPP’s econometrics and consulting offering (ATG and Mindshare Business Planning), and most recently at Johnson & Johnson where she was director of digital analytics and marketing analytics.

     

    “Carat embodies an honest, down-to-earth, warm and collaborative culture. The company has grown rapidly over the past few years due to strong communication and marketing capabilities driven by their culture. I am looking forward to working with the teams across the region to drive further success for Mondelez International and in turn grow our business,” said Das. 

  • Standard Chartered ropes in Philips’ Cummings as global head of digital marketing

    Standard Chartered ropes in Philips’ Cummings as global head of digital marketing

    MUMBAI: Standard Chartered Bank has appointed Damien Cummings as global head of digital marketing.

     

    He will join the Bank in June 2015 and be based in Singapore, reporting directly to Standard Chartered Bank group head of brand and chief marketing officer Sanjeeb Chaudhuri.

     

    Cummings is currently vice president and chief marketing officer at Philips ASEAN and Pacific. He has over 20 years of experience in digital and marketing transformation. He is currently responsible for brand, communications and digital marketing across Philips Consumer Lifestyle, Philips Lighting and Philips Healthcare.

     

    Prior to joining Philips, he was the regional marketing director, digital and social media at Samsung Asia. Cummings has also worked at major global corporations in Australia and Singapore including Dell, Ogilvy, Citibank, Coca-Cola, NRMA and McKinsey & Company.

     

    Chaudhuri said, “I am delighted to welcome Damien to Standard Chartered. As a strategic hire for the marketing team, Damien will drive innovation and transformation in all aspects of digital and mobile marketing. I am confident that the appointment of an executive of this caliber will further strengthen the Bank’s brand and marketing leadership capabilities in the digital era.”

     

    Cummings will be responsible for providing digital and mobile marketing thought leadership as well as strategy formulation and execution. He will work with business partners to achieve our business aspirations across the Bank.

  • Godrej Appliances VP marketing Ramesh Chembath quits

    Godrej Appliances VP marketing Ramesh Chembath quits

    MUMBAI: After a nine year stint, Godrej Appliances vice president marketing Ramesh Chembath has called it a day at the white goods major. The launch of the NXW, Godrejs’ premium category of refrigerators, was possibly Chembath’s last media appearance as a part of Godrej. 

     

    Chembath served his tenure and silently quit last week. His next move still remains unknown.

     

    When contacted by Indiantelevision.com, Chembath confirmed the news, but refused to say anything further.

     

    With vast experience in brand management, communication, product management, sales and P&L, Chembath was helming a strategic role in one of India’s leading consumer durable companies until last week.

     

    Prior to Godrej, Chembath worked with Draft FCB Ulka and the Aditya Birla Group.

  • Scarecrow Communications appoints IrajFraz as head of creative

    Scarecrow Communications appoints IrajFraz as head of creative

    MUMBAI: Scarecrow Communications has appointed IrajFraz as head of creative operations of its Delhi office. Fraz has vast experience in the advertising industry and has worked with agencies like Leo Burnett, JWT and Contract amongst others.

     

    Scarecrow Communications founder director RaghuBhat said, “I have followed his career closely since I first worked with him in McCann. And he offers the perfect mix of world-class creativity, an instinctive understanding of the marketing problem, people skills and the hunger to do more.”

     

    Scarecrow Communications founder director Manish Bhatt added,“We have five brands in Delhi. It’s a decent base. Under Fraz and AnujMehtani, who heads account management in Delhi, we now have the people who can power Scarecrow Delhi to the next level.”

     

    Frazsaid, “I came back because I love advertising. Here, in the by-lanes of ChandniChowk and the boardrooms of banks, people discuss ads. We care about advertising, and that makes our country the ‘it’ place to create interesting work. Why Scarecrow? Because here, the focus hasn’t just been on let’s do work that keeps the business but on let’s create work that starts conversations. And I’d like to keep the momentum going.”

     

    Fraz started his career at Leo Burnett in 2002. From there, he moved on to McCann, Mumbai and in 2006, shifted to Contract Delhi to work on brands like Dominos, NIIT &Dabur. Post this stint, he spent about five years as creative director at JWT Delhi.

     

    His next stop was Y&R, Dubai, where he worked on Coke, Emaar properties and Mashreq Bank, handling projects not just for the UAE, but often for the whole of MENA region, and sometimes, even for Europe and South East Asia.