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  • Printvenue.com ropes in Bipin Narang as CEO- Southeast Asia

    Printvenue.com ropes in Bipin Narang as CEO- Southeast Asia

    MUMBAI: Online portal for personalized printing, Printvenue.com has appointed Bipin Narang as its chief executive officer for Southeast Asia. As part of his new role, he will be reporting directly to Printvenue CEO Gagan Arora.

     

    “We are delighted to have Bipin on board. His expertise and in-depth knowledge of marketing and his phenomenal work in the companies he has worked in, were the main reasons that made him a perfect fit for this role. I am sure he would play an instrumental role in tapping the opportunities in the global market,” said Arora.

     

    Printvenue launched its operations in Singapore and Australia last year and now plans to expand globally. Narang’s understanding of offline retail will be useful for the company to scale its global operations.  

     

    Previously CMO at Vistaprint India, Narang brings over 17 years of experience across e-commerce, telecom, retail, media, liquor and advertising, working with organisations like Bharti Airtel, Videocon Mobiles, United Spirits and Network 18. 

  • Baggit’s Kaanchan Shah joins Eggfirst as client services director

    Baggit’s Kaanchan Shah joins Eggfirst as client services director

    MUMBAI: Eggfirst has appointed Kaanchan Shah as client services director. In her second stint with Eggfirst, Shah will be based out of the agency’s Mumbai office.

     

    Eggfirst CMD Ravikant Banka said, “Kaanchan brings for clients more than two decades of rich experience in marketing and a rock-steady commitment to excellence. Considering the pace of our expansion and the vision for future, she is a delightful addition to the management team to help us achieve the planned growth.”

     

    Shah added, “Eggfirst has always been like a second home. My earlier stint with Eggfirst, as senior account director planning left an indelible mark and coming back was inevitable.”

     

    Shah was previously with Baggit, a fashion accessory segment company. Prior to that, she also worked at JWT-Fortune.

  • DDB Mudra appoints Shaleen Sharma as VP for TracyLocke India

    DDB Mudra appoints Shaleen Sharma as VP for TracyLocke India

    MUMBAI: DDB Mudra Group has appointed Shaleen Sharma as TracyLocke vice president, strategic planning & analytics.

     

    Reporting into TracyLocke head- business & operations Sameer Mehta, Sharma will be the lead strategist across the agency’s clientele and service offerings that includes shopper marketing, trade marketing and retail solutions.

     

    Having worked across various categories, he brings on board a significant understanding of consumer engagement, brand management and building strategic marketing platforms that combine digital, media and entertainment domains.

     

    Sharma is currently working on the development of a qualitative tool that reveals human needs and motivations and places them in a contextual and cultural framework. The primary application of this tool is about driving a deeper connect between brands and their consumers. He has also developed a real time web analytics tool that is capable of integrating all the brand variables, like sales, click through rates, foot falls etc.

     

    “There are pivot points in life, where you realize, quite clearly, what is the next set of challenges you want to solve and the kind of people you want to work with. Tracy Locke, and by extension the DDB Mudra Group, signifies that pivot for me. Everything they are engaged with, be it, their client portfolio, the kind of work they are doing and the ambition they have for their future, makes me realize that my next opportunity for value creation lies here. It will be a privilege to be a journeyman with this Brotherhood,” said Sharma.

     

    Mehta added, “At TracyLocke, we believe in Bottom-Up grass roots approach to enable our clients with a business solution, which is powered by the shopper insights. Shaleen brings in relevant experience in shopper engagement strategies aligning it with brand management and building strategic marketing. His understanding and expertise on digital will only add to our vision of providing technology led shopper insights and shopper experiences encompassing path-to-purchase across the retailers and e-tailers.” 

  • Grey Group India appoints Louella Rebello as senior executive creative director

    Grey Group India appoints Louella Rebello as senior executive creative director

    MUMBAI: Grey Group India has roped in Louella Rebello as senior executive creative director, Mumbai. In her new role, she will be responsible for the creative services of its Mumbai office and be an integral part of Grey Group’s creative leadership team.

     

    In her previous position, Rebello headed the Mumbai office at TBWA India and served on accounts including Nissan, Datsun, Kuoni Travel, Standard Chartered, Cigna TTK Health Insurance and Singapore Airlines.

     

    “Louella is a 15 year veteran. Her wealth of knowledge, experience and strong leadership skills will be invaluable to us as we look to consistently create ‘Famous & Effective’ campaigns for our clients. I am confident her appointment will accelerate our goal in elevating Grey Group’s creative services and standards to even greater heights,” said Grey Group India chairman & managing director Sunil Lulla.

     

    Prior to TBWA India, Rebello was with DDB Mudra Group. She successfully launched the ‘Cross Polo’ campaign for Volkswagen India. Under her leadership, ‘The Hinglish Project’ won the Cannes Gold in 2012.

     

    Rebello has served earlier at Ogilvy from 2003 to 2011, leaving as senior creative director. At Ogilvy, she worked on brands such as Vodafone, Tata Safari, Tata Sumo, Unilever Foods, Amaron India, Star TV and Bank of India, amongst others.

     

    “It is certainly exciting and a privilege to be appointed as the person responsible for Grey group’s Mumbai Office. They are a talented team and I am excited to dive in with the talented team at Grey group to deliver on its North Star of ’Famous & Effective’, ” said Rebello. 

  • Sky News makes senior editorial appointments

    Sky News makes senior editorial appointments

    MUMBAI: Sky News has announced a host of foreign and domestic editorial appointments.

     

    Dominic Waghorn has been appointed diplomatic editor. Waghorn is one of Sky’s most experienced foreign journalists, most recently as US correspondent based in Washington where he has reported on major stories including the recent riots in Ferguson, Superstorm Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing. Previous to that Waghorn spent five years as Sky’s Middle East correspondent reporting extensively from across the region. He was named the RTS Television Journalist of the Year in 2007 for his exclusives from China.

     

    Mark Stone is to become Europe correspondent, based in Brussels, and will play a key role in covering the EU Referendum. Stone’s appointment follows three years as Sky News’ Asia correspondent, where he covered a variety of stories, including travelling to North Korea and explaining the complexities of China for which he was nominated for an RTS Award.

     

    After a successful tenure as Moscow correspondent, Katie Stallard will replace Stone as Asia correspondent, based in Beijing. She has been a major journalistic voice in the Ukraine crisis, as well as reporting closely on the Russian political landscape. 

     

    In the UK, Robert Nisbet has been appointed Political correspondent covering Anushka Asthana’s maternity leave. Following a successful term as Sky’s Europe correspondent, Nisbet will bring his wealth of experience to cover the UK political scene, including David Cameron’s campaign to reform the Union and the UK’s position in Europe. 

     

    Sky News director of newsgathering Jonathan Levy said, “Dominic, Mark, Katie and Robert are first class journalists who’ll bring a huge amount of expertise and journalistic endeavour to their new roles, offering our customers the very best analysis from their respective beats.”  

  • Comcast taps SEC’s Daniel C. Murdock as VP, corporate controller

    Comcast taps SEC’s Daniel C. Murdock as VP, corporate controller

    MUMBAI: Comcast Corporation has appointed Daniel C. Murdock as vice president, corporate controller.

     

    In this role, Murdock will serve as a senior leader within Comcast’s finance department and oversees accounting policies and procedures, reporting controls, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

     

    He reports to Comcast Corporation EVP and chief accounting officer Lawrence Salva.

     

    “Dan is highly experienced in corporate financial internal controls, financial accounting standards and auditing, and I am excited he has joined our team. Throughout his career, he has developed an impressive track record of ensuring the highest standards of transparency and accuracy in accounting, which Comcast strongly values and fits perfectly within our culture,” said Salva.

     

    Murdock joins Comcast from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) where he served as the deputy chief accountant in the agency’s office of the chief accountant since 2013. Prior to the SEC, he was Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Audit/Industry professional practice director for media and entertainment.

  • BBC Advertising appoints Alistair McEwan as SVP Asia & ANZ

    BBC Advertising appoints Alistair McEwan as SVP Asia & ANZ

    MUMBAI: BBC Advertising has appointed Alistair McEwan as SVP commercial development Asia & ANZ.

     

    McEwan will be responsible for the delivery of profitable advertising sales revenues from the Asia-Pacific region on BBC World News, BBC.com, BBC World Service, Top Gear, BBC Good Food and BBC Worldwide Channels.

     

    Reporting to BBC Advertising EVP Carolyn Gibson, McEwan will also remain part of the ANZ leadership team under BBC Worldwide ANZ managing director Jon Penn, and join the Asia leadership team under EVP & GM Asia David Weiland.

     

    He will play a strategic role in integrating the regional advertising teams and optimising opportunities across BBC Worldwide and BBC Global News Ltd’s portfolio, while building the business’ profile across Asia-Pacific. He will also provide sales and business leadership to his senior management team of sales vice presidents, whilst further developing the capabilities of the high calibre sales team across the region.

     

    This builds on the announcement last September that BBC Worldwide is boosting its ad sales team in Asia to make the most of growth opportunities in the region. VPs John Williams and Katy Xu will continue to run sales and day to day line management of their teams in ASEAN & India and Greater China & North Asia respectively, while both reporting to McEwan. The current ANZ Ad Sales and Brand Partnerships team will continue to report to McEwan.

     

    The role takes effect on 1 July, 2015 and McEwan will work from both the Singapore and Sydney offices.

     

    Gibson said, “For this expanded, strategic role, which is responsible for the whole of BBC Worldwide and BBC Global News Ltd’s portfolio across the region, we were looking for someone who can lead and integrate the teams and drive new commercial opportunities. With his knowledge from working in markets across Asia and ANZ, as well as a mix of print, TV and digital experience, Alistair will be an excellent asset to the BBC Advertising leadership team.”

     

    McEwan added, “Asia-Pacific is a dynamic and very important region for BBC Worldwide, where we are increasingly building audiences with our world-class content and services in both mature and fast growth markets. I’m incredibly excited by the scope of business opportunities across the region, fostering new and existing partnerships and leading a highly talented sales team.”

     

    A key area of focus for McEwan will be driving opportunities around BBC.com and BBC World News. Sustained investment has resulted in an enhanced offering across TV, radio and online, run from a new 24-hour newsroom in London and supported by an extensive network of bureaux and correspondents around the world. 

     

    McEwan joined BBC Worldwide in July 2013 as VP for BBC Advertising ANZ. In 2014 he was appointed director of advertising sales & brand partnerships where he has been leading a cross media commercial department for BBC Worldwide ANZ, responsible for multi-channel advertising and sponsorship revenues for the portfolio of media brands and platforms in Australia and New Zealand. Additionally he has been managing the BBC Worldwide joint venture interest with Bauer Park Publishing for Top Gear Australia magazine and its website.

     

    He joined BBC Worldwide from multi-screen media and marketing agency Modaliti and prior to this he was National Group Advertising Director at News Ltd. Before moving to Australia in 2010, he was international advertising director at The New York Times, with his first 12 years in media being with Paris based newspaper the International Herald Tribune where he worked in various commercial roles in Singapore, Johannesburg, London and Paris. 

  • Cheil India appoints Ogilvy Singapore’s Sonal Narain as chief strategy officer

    Cheil India appoints Ogilvy Singapore’s Sonal Narain as chief strategy officer

    MUMBAI: Integrated marketing solutions agency Cheil India has appointed Sonal Narain as its chief strategy officer.

     

    Narain comes to Cheil from Ogilvy Singapore, where she was head of planning. Additionally, she is also head of Ogilvy Change (the firm’s Behavioural Sciences practice).

     

    She will be based in Cheil’s Gurgaon office, which is the regional headquarters for South-West Asia.

     

    At Ogilvy, she has been driving an organisation-wide agenda for effectiveness that has resulted in over 20 wins at all major awards at local, regional and international shows. She was also awarded Planner of the Year 2014 in Singapore.

     

    Cheil South-West Asia group president Shiv Sethuraman said, “Sonal understands the intersection between media, technology and popular culture and has done impressive work in areas far beyond the limits of conventional advertising. That is what makes her the perfect choice to lead Cheil India’s planning and strategy function. We’re aiming to transition into an agency that is ahead of the curve and Sonal will be a big part of that. She understands technology but at the core, it’s her understanding of human behaviour and her focus on effectiveness that set her apart.”

     

    Narain added, “The opportunity to marry human insight with technology and create fundamental change only comes along once in a while and few agencies are as well placed to take advantage of this as Cheil India is. As a dynamic and young organisation that’s shown steady growth in both size and reputation, Cheil seeks to up the ante and I’m hugely excited to be part of that.” 

  • United Spirits appoints Abanti Sankaranarayanan as business head

    United Spirits appoints Abanti Sankaranarayanan as business head

    MUMBAI: Spirits company United Spirits Limited (USL), a subsidiary of Diageo, has roped in Abanti Sankaranarayanan as business head for luxury and corporate relations, India.

     

    With this move, Sankaranarayanan joins the executive committee of USL. With over 20 years in the consumer industry, she has been managing director of Diageo India since July 2012, leading Diageo’s business mandate for international spirits in India. Under her leadership, Diageo’s brand portfolio in India delivered strong double-digit growth and high market share gains coupled with robust equity results.

     

    USL MD & CEO Anand Kripalu said, “We are delighted to have a leader of Abanti’s talent and global caliber to lead our luxury portfolio and drive our corporate relations efforts in India. Her extensive leadership experience and expertise will add strong momentum to the growth of USL’s business in India.”

     

    A new luxury unit is being set up in USL for the premium brands of the portfolio with the objective of maintaining Diageo’s premium brand leadership. Creating a center of luxury excellence will provide focus behind the fastest growing segment of the Indian alcobev market. The luxury business will encompass Diageo’s iconic brands such as Johnnie Walker, Ciroc and the Single Malts.

     

    In addition, Sankaranarayanan will lead the new corporate relations function that has been set up to drive USL towards strong leadership and execution on public policy, regulatory, tax and trade affairs, alcohol policy, corporate reputation & brand, and sustainability & responsibility.  In this role, Sankaranarayanan will build key stakeholder relationships with regulators, government, industry bodies, NGO partners and relevant members of civil society.

     

    Sankaranarayanan said, “I am delighted to take up this new position at USL as we continue the journey to make USL the most trusted and respected consumer goods company in India.”

  • Pubcaster not consulted on new DD News appointment: Prasar Bharati officials

    Pubcaster not consulted on new DD News appointment: Prasar Bharati officials

    NEW DELHI: The order posting Veena Jain to head the news channel of Doordarshan as director general and noting that the officer ‘will report to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry for all purposes’ has come as a surprise to many as it implies that DD News is to be directly controlled by the Ministry.

     

    However, Prasar Bharati officials told Indiantelevision.com that this has been the case since the inception of DD News.

     

    All India Radio has 45 news units while DD has 30 news units around the country, and all are headed by Indian Information Service (IIS) officers posted by the Ministry.

     

    Senior Prasar Bharati Advisor Brig. V A M Hussain told the website that Section 11(B)(2) of the Prasar Bharati Act 1990 clearly states that the Ministry must consult or seek advice of the pubcaster before making such appointments. Under the same Act, Prasar Bharati was made into an autonomous organisation.

     

    However, in this case, a copy of the Ministry’s order was not even marked to Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar.

     

    Reacting to a news report about this, Hussain tweeted, ‘Never consulted Prasar Bharati in past/Fact is Never handed over News.’

     

    Answering a question, he said that DD had 24 channels and DD News is the only one where the IIS officers are directly answerable to the Ministry and are posted without consultation with the pubcaster.

     

    In fact, Sircar has written to the Ministry several times in the past in this connection but has not received a reply.   

     

    The pubcaster had also reacted strongly when S M Khan had been removed unceremoniously last year and placed on compulsory wait.

     

    During the run-up to the elections, Khan was reported to have delayed the transmission of Narendra Modi’s interview to Doordarshan. Answering a query about editing out certain portions, he had sad this was done only because of references made about persons who had not been given an opportunity to have their say.