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  • MSL appoints Shashanka Nanda as vice president North & West of 20:20 MSL

    MSL appoints Shashanka Nanda as vice president North & West of 20:20 MSL

    MUMBAI: MSL, Publicis Groupe’s exclusive strategic communications firm, Monday announced the appointment of Shashanka Nanda as vice president, north and west at 20:20 MSL, based in Delhi NCR. With over two decades of experience, Nanda brings deep knowledge of integrated communications, leading multi-stakeholder campaigns across verticals including technology, automotive, aviation, and infrastructure across public and private sectors. Prior to this appointment, he held the position of vice president and technology lead at Edelman, India.

    MSL South Asia CEO Amit Misra said, “Shashanka is an accomplished professional. His depth of experience will add strategic value across our diverse client portfolio. As a strategic thinker and team player, his knowledge of the communication environment will be complementary to our operations. I am confident that he will be a great asset to our teams and I look forward to working closely with him.”

    “We are delighted to have Shashanka join our team,” said 20:20 MSL MD Viju George. “With his deep expertise in the technology sector, he will be a terrific addition to our leadership team as we continue to focus on expanding our bouquet of services and up-scaling our offerings.”

    During the course of his career, Nanda has advised global corporations, start-ups, not for profits and governments on developing and executing effective communication strategies. A few clients that he has managed include organizations such as Microsoft, HP, TrendMicro, Oracle, Hitachi Data Systems, Airbus, GMR, Maruti Suzuki, the ministry of renewable energy, government of India, the government of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, and  the World Bank, among others.

  • MSLGroup gets 8 new regional practice leaders in Asia

    MSLGroup gets 8 new regional practice leaders in Asia

    MUMBAI: Publicis Groupe’s strategic communications and engagement consultancy, MSLGroup has appointed eight new regional practice group leaders and two regional deputy practice group leaders across Asia to further strengthen the firm’s expertise and leadership.

     

    The practice leaders will ensure best-in-class client service and strategic counsel, including growing the business, developing new offerings and methodologies, structured internal capability enhancement and thought leadership.

     

    MSLGroup president Asia Glenn Osaki  said: “Most of these top talents and leaders have been with us for many years, some have grown with us for over a decade. We are very happy to appoint these experts to take on international leadership roles and to contribute to developing the future of MSLGROUP in Asia and globally. MSLGroup is driving the change. I’m proud that these top talents will play a part in taking our firm – and our industry – to the next level.” 

     

    The eight regional practice leaders are: Amrit Ahuja (with over 20 years of experience she will be adding the role of regional practice leader to her current position as client engagement leader for 20:20 MSL in India), Narendra Nag (will be adding the role of regional practice leader to his current position as vice president and co-leader of MSLGroup Social Hive in India), Parveez Modak (apart from his current position as senior VP and co-leader of MSLGroup Social Hive in India, he will be adding the new role to his portfolio) , Amit Misra (he will be adding the role of regional practice leader to his current position as executive VP and director, Public Affairs, at MSLGroup in India), Par Uhlin (will add the role of regional practice leader to his current position as vice chair, MSLGroup China), Ellen Cheng (the sought-after trainer and advisor to senior executives of leading international companies in China will be adding the role of regional practice leader to her current position as director, MSLGroup China), Ken Hirata (will add the role of regional practice leader to his current position as senior director, MSLGroup in Japan), Dennis Hsu (will add the role of regional practice leader to his current position as VP, MSLGroup in Taiwan).

     

    Jaideep Shergill will continue his leadership of the regional Financial Communications practice.

     

    Two deputy practice leaders have also been appointed: Jolin Liu (will be adding the role of deputy regional practice leader to her current position as group account director, King Harvests) and Fu Yumei (will add the role of deputy regional practice leader to her current position as healthcare leader and senior associate director at MSLGroup in Singapore).