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  • Warburg Pincus promotes Hemant Mundra to MD

    Warburg Pincus promotes Hemant Mundra to MD

    MUMBAI: He’s been given a leg up at private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Hemant Mundra who was principal at the firm has been elevated to managing director as of the new year.

    Hemant has worked over a decade in private equity across varied sectors including financial services, healthcare, consumer and auto components with a primary focus on financial services. He is on the  board of several companies including Avanse Financial Services, Vistaar Finance, Shriram Housing Finance and Parksons Packaging.

    The chemical engineering B. tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai went on to qualify as a US certified financial analyst and then did his MBA in finance from IIM Ahmedabad between 2012-2014. Rothschild hired him as an analyst  between April 2011 and May 2012, following which he joined IIM-A and did his financial . MBA.

    He joined Kedaara Capital in March 2014  and rose to become a senior associate, Warburg Pincus called and he joined as vice-president in  November 2017.

    In between he had super short stints at Reliance, Essar, Deloitte, and Morgan Stanley.
     

  • Rahul Thappa takes over as dentsu Media managing director Singapore

    Rahul Thappa takes over as dentsu Media managing director Singapore

    MUMBAI: He’s shuffled between jobs in the south east Asian region and in India. Between being on the media side and on the broadcast side. 

    Rahul Thappa, however,  is now on the media side as he has taken over as managing director of dentsu Media based in Singapore from 1 January 2025.

    His remit: looking after investment and management for dentsu’s  regional and global accounts out of Singapore and growing the agency’s customer experience capabilities  (CX) with Merkle.”

    Merkle is dentsu’s technology-enabled, data-driven CX  management company.

    Thapa was last the managing director of Vista Equity Partners-backed global centre of excellence Naviga for the past three and a half years based in Gurugram. He took a shot at self-employment by setting up a consulting firm VDO Focus Consulting for a year and half advising start ups to manage their digital campaigns and strategy between January 2020 and July 2021.

    Between July 2013 and September 2019, he made south east Asia his home base – first in Astro in Malaysia as VP data analytics, trading & sales enablement and then at Fox network group in Singapore as SVP ad sale strategy, sales operations.

    A short stab at entrepreneurship preceded that which ended in in six months. As did his assignment with Mindshare in Gurgaon in the leadership team where he stayed for around a year. He hopped on to Mail Today as COO, but could continue there for only nine months between April 2011 and December 2011.

    A mathematics graduate and post graduate diploma holder in marketing communication from Mica and PGPX in general management from IIM-A., Rahul sent six years and six months at Mindshare Malaysia rising to become managing partner.