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  • Garmin brings in Yeshudas Pillai as country head

    Garmin brings in Yeshudas Pillai as country head

    Mumbai: Garmin India, the popular brand of smartwatches in the fitness and wellness segment, has roped in Yeshudas Pillai as the country head for its India operations. His appointment is in line with the company’s objective to drive growth and development of the brand. With this appointment, the brand wants to intensify its focus to reach a larger set of audiences, speed up growth initiatives, and elevate its brand positioning.

    Pillai will be based in Delhi. In his new role, he will be driving stakeholder engagement, growth, and development of the brand in India. With over 16 years of experience, Pillai has worked for prestigious consumer electronics, consumer durables, FMCG, and premium lifestyle brands.

    Garmin is looking at strengthening its presence in India and continues to grow by double digits. The brand aims to boost its business continuously in India.

    Addressing the occasion, Garmin’s regional director of South-East Asia & India Sky Chen said, “At Garmin, we firmly believe in prioritising the needs of our consumers. We see great potential in the Indian market, where we’ve recorded 32 per cent YoY growth until Q3’22, as per Garmin Connect. Venu series from the wellness segment contributed the most, with a 65 per cent YoY growth till Q3’22 as per Garmin Connect.”

    He added, “We have seen a growth in the preference for mid-high range ($300 and above) smartwatches over the last couple of years in India. Looking at this trend, we are bullish on the premium segment and plan to expand our offerings. Also, there is a sharp increase in the activity trend, where we see uptake in outdoor activities that resonate well with our product line. For Garmin, we see India becoming one of the top three markets in the Asia region in the next five years.”

    Welcoming Pillai, Chen said, “Pillai’s multitude of experience and strong track record in the consumer space make him an integral part of our team and will further our vision for the Indian market. With his result-driven professionalism, we look forward to bringing in the required momentum to our business growth in India.”

    Joining Garmin, Pillai quipped, “I have always been a great believer in innovation and technology and the potential it has to change the moving world. I am excited to join the Garmin team and accelerate its growth in India. I look forward to working with the Garmin global leadership team and providing strategic impetus for strengthening the company’s foothold in India. Our vision is to strengthen our presence across the country, where we aim to have more than 10 Garmin brand stores by the end of 2023.”

    After setting the precedent with its quality and premium products, Garmin currently has brand stores in Delhi NCR, Bangalore, and Pune. By the end of 2023, the brand aims to expand its presence across markets by opening brand stores, which will also double up as service collection points. Garmin has been known for cutting-edge GPS navigation products for almost three decades. Some of the recently launched product offerings in India embody Garmin’s philosophy of offering users compelling design and superior quality at a competitive price. With an aim to strengthen its positioning across India, the brand will bolster its data monitoring mechanism with ‘Garmin Health API’.

    Garmin aims to get closer to its diverse user community through new partners across markets to offer all the latest Garmin products, including the newly launched Venu SQ 2 and Forerunner 955 & 255 series.

  • Xapads Media expands footprint in Indonesia, onboards Edo Fernando as country head

    Xapads Media expands footprint in Indonesia, onboards Edo Fernando as country head

    Mumbai: Homegrown programmatic ad-tech platform Xapads Media has announced the expansion of its offerings, international team, and client base in Indonesia. The company has also brought on board Edo Fernando as country head in Indonesia.

    In this role, Fernando will lead the business in Indonesia and will be responsible for the strategic growth of Xapads Media in the country. He will also be further strengthening the local team, partnerships, and innovation in the industry, said the company in a statement.

    “Edo is a result-oriented person with a strong commitment to the growth of the organisation as he has phenomenal insights about the changing landscape of the digital ad market in the region,” said Xapads Media COO Ramneek Chadha. “Xapads is opening a new chapter of its journey in the region and we see him as a natural fit for driving the company’s growth journey in the Indonesian market and taking the company’s vision forward.”

    Before joining Xapads Media, Fernando served at Appnext & Pokkt as country director. With over 15 years of experience, he has worked with many multinational advertising and ad tech companies in Indonesia and got ample opportunities to work with top global brands along with all partners including OEMs, Publisher, and MMPs.

    “I thank Xapads Media for showcasing their confidence in my abilities,” said Fernando. “With its advanced tech-based advertising solutions, I am sure we will be able to establish Xapads amongst the top ad tech companies in the country. I look forward to working and contributing to the growth of Xapads Media in Indonesia.”

    Xapads’ expansion plan comes into effect after successfully creating a footprint in the Indian digital advertising industry and establishing operational offices in the US, Russia UAE, and Singapore. “The vision with which Xapads was founded was to make this homegrown ad-tech platform a global platform, a true Indian MNC. I feel proud and grateful with this expansion, which brings us one step closer to our goal,” stated Xapads Media CEO Nitin Gupta, on the company’s business expansion.

  • Bharati Balakrishnan joins Shopify India as country head and director

    Bharati Balakrishnan joins Shopify India as country head and director

    Mumbai: Global e-commerce company Shopify has appointed Bharati Balakrishnan as country head and director to spearhead its business in India. 

    Balakrishnan will be leading a growing team that will continue to focus on supporting made-in-India companies of all sizes and flavours on their journey to becoming leading global DTC brands. She will leverage her deep ties with the Indian e-commerce and start-up communities to strengthen Shopify’s robust ecosystem of partners and developers as a key source of tailored apps and tools to help merchants start, scale, grow and manage their businesses, said the statement.

    She joins Shopify with more than 15 years of experience in various roles at global management and tech firms including Alibaba, Bain & Co, Future Group, and Paytm. Her skills in building national brands from the ground-up, coupled with broad expertise straddling brick-and-mortar, distribution, e-commerce, and India’s burgeoning start-up ecosystem, will help drive Shopify India’s continued growth.

    “I have three simple goals – reinforcing Shopify’s position as the go-to commerce platform for Indian businesses of all sizes, strengthening its reputation as a merchant-first platform, and growing Shopify’s key merchant and partner relationships,” said Balakrishnan on her new role.

  • Stylework appoints Vikrant Vashisht as country head, sales & marketing

    Stylework appoints Vikrant Vashisht as country head, sales & marketing

    Mumbai: Co-working aggregator platform Stylework on Wednesday announced the appointment of Vikrant Vashisht as country head for sales & marketing, India and transactions, MEA.

    Vashisht comes with over 19 years of experience in business development, revenue management, customer relationship management of large-scale businesses in the real estate, retail, and aviation industry.

    Prior to Stylework, he worked with FirstLease, Awfis and Regus as marketing head and has experience in flexible workspaces function and operation.

    “Having Vikrant on board will strengthen the brand’s positioning with outstanding creative strategies along with active community engagement,” said Stylework CEO and founder Sparsh Khandelwal. “His experience in leveraging consultative selling strategies will build relationships for the company across all target markets.”  

    In his new role, Vashisht said he will be overseeing sales, marketing, managing profit/revenues, results-driven planning, and quality targets. “I am looking forward to joining the Stylework team and leveraging my experience to contribute across various functions,” he added.

  • Lowe Lintas appoints Kedar Teny as CEO

    Lowe Lintas appoints Kedar Teny as CEO

    Mumbai: Lowe Lintas on Wednesday announced the appointment of Kedar Teny as its CEO, effective 1 September. Teny has moved from Avataar.me, a visual discovery platform, where he served as senior VP & country head.

    “Teny will spearhead transformation and widen its sphere of impact through Hyperbundled solutions to clients and brand owners. His proven track record in advertising and marketing as a business and brand leader makes him the ideal candidate to take on this mandate,” said the agency in a statement.

    Welcoming Teny on board, MullenLowe Lintas Group, group CCO & chairman, Amer Jaleel said, “As Lowe Lintas we are partners to marketing. And there’s no better way of serving that than getting leadership from marketing. It’s almost as if Kedar’s education and achievements with marketing were ordained and timed beautifully for Lowe Lintas’ transformation and make us best placed to be both hub and spokes to brand needs. His insider understanding of the requirements of brands alongside his belief and grooming on the strategic centrality of brand visioning to business success is quite unmatched in the industry today.”

    MullenLowe Lintas Group, group CEO, Virat Tandon added, “Over my interactions, I found that Kedar was totally made for this job as he has strategic clarity on the future of our industry. He brings with himself invaluable expertise in marketing and a passion for brands and creative product. Moreover, he is a great believer and practitioner of technology in marketing to drive growth. And of course, he is a great fit culturally and is fun to work with. So, he fits perfectly into our vision for the future of Lowe Lintas.”

    Spanning a little over two decades, Teny‘s career is a rich blend of advertising and marketing. He first joined Lintas in 1999 and built his decade-long career in advertising. While at Lintas, he led account management and strategic planning functions for key businesses in multiple geographies across India and SEA. Later, he held senior marketing and business leadership roles across blue-chip organisations such as Airtel, HUL, McDonald’s, and Sony Entertainment Television. He has also shaped early-stage startups such as Tilt Brand Solutions and Avataar.me.

    Looking forward to his new role, Teny said, “I am really excited as I return to Lowe Lintas after 14 years. Lowe Lintas is not an advertising agency, it is an institution that has built some of the most iconic brands. I look forward to working closely with the accomplished MullenLowe Lintas Group leadership team as well as partnering with some old friends and new collaborations to build brands for the future.”

  • Mohit Hira appointed as IBT Media President & Country Head of India

    Mohit Hira appointed as IBT Media President & Country Head of India

    MUMBAI: IBT Media India has appointed Mohit Hira as President & Country Head of its India operations.

    IBT Media’s Indian edition (www.ibtimes.co.in) is headquarted in Bengaluru and led by Chandra Mohan, Managing Director, has been operational since 2011.

    “Hira’s mandate is to create a brand out of a well-built product with market-facing initiatives and content reinforcement” added Mohan. The site claims that it is engineered by IB Times’ global team, and has seen rapid growth in recent years. It is also well supported by advertisers. Apart from business news, technology, entertainment, sports and politics from India and the world constitute the news lineup in the India edition.

    IB Times MD Dev Pragad said, “We were very impressed by Mohit’s deep understanding of digital publishing. His background from advertising to publishing puts him in the perfect position to take IBT Media in India to the next level. We look forward to working very closely with him”.

    “IB Times presents a unique opportunity to take a popular digital destination to the next level. In my interactions with Dev and Mohan, their infectious start-up attitude convinced me of the opportunity to leverage my experience. The website is rich in content and is engineered for on-the-go readers who need credible updates on business news through the day. Now it’s time to turn it into a consumer-facing brand and socialise it,” said Mohit Hira.

    In his last assignment, Mohit Hira was Chief Executive & Publisher of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka owned Open Media Network which publishes Open Magazine. Hira was also responsible for re launching Open’s website, strengthening its sales team and repositioning the brand.Before joining Open, he was CEO at Hungama Digital Services (HDS) and Digital Head at J. Walter Thompson India, as well as Regional Business Head on the Airtel account. Hira had joined JWT from NIIT, where he was President of its B2C global online learning business that he had started. He was also the Chief Marketing Officer for NIIT’s retail individual training businesses and helped in the founding years of the NIIT University.

    As Director-Times Internet Ltd where he was the brand custodian for the group’s website, www.indiatimes.com, he was responsible for incubation, marketing and usability of its portals.Before this, he was the Brand Head of The Economic Times (Delhi) and Navbharat Times at Bennett Coleman. Originally, a copywriter at Contract Advertising’s Kolkata office, Mohit Hira grew to take charge first as Creative Director and then the head of its Kolkata and Delhi offices.

    An English (Hons.) graduate of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Mohit is also an alumnus of Executive Development Programmes at ISB Hyderabad, IIM Ahmedabad and INSEAD Singapore where he was nominated to the Google Academy.

    He will continue to be based in Delhi NCR and will work closely with the India and EMEA Managing Directors of IB Times.

  • Mohit Hira appointed as IBT Media President & Country Head of India

    Mohit Hira appointed as IBT Media President & Country Head of India

    MUMBAI: IBT Media India has appointed Mohit Hira as President & Country Head of its India operations.

    IBT Media’s Indian edition (www.ibtimes.co.in) is headquarted in Bengaluru and led by Chandra Mohan, Managing Director, has been operational since 2011.

    “Hira’s mandate is to create a brand out of a well-built product with market-facing initiatives and content reinforcement” added Mohan. The site claims that it is engineered by IB Times’ global team, and has seen rapid growth in recent years. It is also well supported by advertisers. Apart from business news, technology, entertainment, sports and politics from India and the world constitute the news lineup in the India edition.

    IB Times MD Dev Pragad said, “We were very impressed by Mohit’s deep understanding of digital publishing. His background from advertising to publishing puts him in the perfect position to take IBT Media in India to the next level. We look forward to working very closely with him”.

    “IB Times presents a unique opportunity to take a popular digital destination to the next level. In my interactions with Dev and Mohan, their infectious start-up attitude convinced me of the opportunity to leverage my experience. The website is rich in content and is engineered for on-the-go readers who need credible updates on business news through the day. Now it’s time to turn it into a consumer-facing brand and socialise it,” said Mohit Hira.

    In his last assignment, Mohit Hira was Chief Executive & Publisher of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka owned Open Media Network which publishes Open Magazine. Hira was also responsible for re launching Open’s website, strengthening its sales team and repositioning the brand.Before joining Open, he was CEO at Hungama Digital Services (HDS) and Digital Head at J. Walter Thompson India, as well as Regional Business Head on the Airtel account. Hira had joined JWT from NIIT, where he was President of its B2C global online learning business that he had started. He was also the Chief Marketing Officer for NIIT’s retail individual training businesses and helped in the founding years of the NIIT University.

    As Director-Times Internet Ltd where he was the brand custodian for the group’s website, www.indiatimes.com, he was responsible for incubation, marketing and usability of its portals.Before this, he was the Brand Head of The Economic Times (Delhi) and Navbharat Times at Bennett Coleman. Originally, a copywriter at Contract Advertising’s Kolkata office, Mohit Hira grew to take charge first as Creative Director and then the head of its Kolkata and Delhi offices.

    An English (Hons.) graduate of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Mohit is also an alumnus of Executive Development Programmes at ISB Hyderabad, IIM Ahmedabad and INSEAD Singapore where he was nominated to the Google Academy.

    He will continue to be based in Delhi NCR and will work closely with the India and EMEA Managing Directors of IB Times.