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  • Ipsos appoints Deepak Singh as marketing business head

    Ipsos appoints Deepak Singh as marketing business head

    MUMBAI: Ipsos has appointed Deepak Singh as executive director and head of Ipsos Marketing business in India. He will be based out of Ipsos Bengaluru office and will report to Ipsos Research MD Amit Adarkar.

     

    “Ipsos InnoQuest, Ipsos MarketQuest and Ipsos UU WSBL’s under Ipsos Marketing umbrella comprise a significant part of our business. In order to drive Client satisfaction and aggressive business development amongst our Marketing WSBL Clients, we have created a new leadership role in India which Deepak will head,” said Adarkar.  

     

    Singh will be responsible for P&L of Ipsos Marketing business in India except Ipsos Healthcare. Ipsos InnoQuest head and executive director Vidya Sen, Ipsos MarketQuest head and executive director Shubhranshu Das and Ipsos UU head and executive director Rinku Patnaik will report to him.     

     

    “I am delighted to join Ipsos Marketing business, which helps clients to transform insights into a distinctive competitive advantage. Our specialists offer simple, intuitive solutions built on powerful philosophies and always linked to business outcomes,” said Singh.

     

    He added, “Integration of Ipsos Marketing business in India will help us better coordinate and our aim will be to provide our clients end-to-end marketing research solutions in order to help them uncover people insights and motivations on their markets, innovate and position their brands, and maximise sales to get the best return on investments.”

     

    Prior to joining Ipsos India, Singh was officer at Kantar Japan responsible for non-Japanese global accounts based at Tokyo. Immediately before that he was working as TNS India as managing director – south, looking after south India and Sri Lanka business based out of Bangalore.

     

    Singh is not new to Ipsos as he has previously worked with Ipsos India as executive director and country manager based at Mumbai after an internal relocation from Ipsos Singapore in 2007.

     

  • Jyoti Malladi appointed head of Ipsos ASI India business

    Jyoti Malladi appointed head of Ipsos ASI India business

    MUMBAI: Jyoti Malladi has been appointed as executive director and head of Ipsos ASI India business with effect from 3 November 2014. She will be based out of Ipsos Mumbai office and will report to Ipsos Research managing director Amit Adarkar.

     

    Malladi, who has more than 15 years of experience in market research, will take over from Shubhranshu Das who moves to head Ipsos MarketQuest India business.

     

    “Ipsos ASI business in India has done remarkably well under Shubhranshu’s leadership. I am sure with his expertise and business acumen, Shubhranshu will help us take Ipsos MarketQuest business to greater heights,” said Adarkar.

     

    Malladi joins Ipsos from Millward Brown where she was working as client services director. She has previously worked with Etisalat DB Telecom, TNS India, IMRB International, NFO-MBL India and B. E. Billimoria & Co.

     

    “Ipsos ASI offers marketers state-of-the-art advertising research, using measures predictive of in-market performance across the various stages of advertising development and implementation. With Jyoti’s extensive experience in brand and communication research, I am sure she will help us grow the Ipsos ASI business in India manifold,” said Adarkar.

     

    “I am delighted to join Ipsos ASI India business which is the largest provider of advertising pre-testing, advertising tracking and brand equity evaluation services in the world. Ipsos ASI offers a full range of advertising research solutions to help clients make the best decisions at all stages of the advertising development process, and to maximize the return on their advertising investment,” said Malladi.

     

    She addes, “Our commitment is to provide superior insights to advertisers to help in the development, evaluation, and improvement of their advertising efforts and to help clients build stronger brands.”