Keep up with all the key people movements in the brand marketing ecosystem in Storyboard18’s CXO Moves. Here’s a round-up of the executives who’ve moved jobs, got bigger roles, switched industries and more.
Ashish Lingamneni
Previous: Vice president – marketing, brand, product marketing and sustainability, Swiggy
Ashish Lingamneni has moved on from his respective role at Swiggy. Lingamneni comes with an experience of 15 years and started his career at Deloitte Consulting as business technology analyst. From there, he moved to Colgate Palmolive and he joined Johnson & Johnson (J&J) as a management trainee. He held various roles at J&J, and his last role was customer marketing manager. Before joining Swiggy, he was with Ola’s marketing team.
Aparna Giridhar
Previous: General manager – e-commerce, Hindustan Unilever
Present: Vice president – marketing, Swiggy
Aparna Giridhar has moved to Swiggy from Unilever and has stepped into Ashish Lingamneni’s shoes as the vice president of marketing.
Giridhar comes with an experience of 14 years and started her career at Nokia Siemens Networks, and then moved to Unilever. Her full-fledged role at Unilever was as area sales manager of the personal care category, then she held the position of shopper marketing manager for the states of Karnataka and Kerala. Then, she moved up the ranks and was the senior brand manager at Lakme. Then, she held the role of marketing manager and looked into the operations of Glow & Lovely.
Sunil Gadgil and Ashish Joshi
Present: Managing director, and sales director, Nivea India
German skincare maker Beiersdorf has appointed Sunil Gadgil as marketing director and Ashish Joshi as the new sales director.
Gadgil spent over 12 years with Beiersdorf in various global and local roles. He comes with an overall experience of 16 years, and has worked across Asian Paints, Marico, Godrej Consumer Products, GE Money – SBI and Bausch & Lomb.
Joshi has an experience of 17 years and has worked across Reebok India, Agro Tech Foods, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, Wipro Consumer Care and Vodafone India.
Karthik Balagopalan
Present: Managing director, Puma India
Sports company Puma has appointed Puma’s global director retail and e-commerce Karthik Balagopalan as their new managing director in India. Balagopalan has been with Puma since 2006. Prior to leading Puma’s global DTC business, he held management positions in the retail operations and business development at Puma India. He is armed with an experience of 20 years and has also worked across Godfrey Phillips India, and Reebok India.
Eric Ou
Previous: CM head of commercial PC BU/ global key account director
Present: Country head, president and director, systems group, Asus India
Taiwanese multinational computer hardware and consumer electronics company Asus has promoted Eric Ou for its India operations. Ou is armed with an experience of more than two decades. He started his career with Asus and has held various roles in multiple capacities.
Akhilesh Ramachandran
Previous: Vice president, MullenLowe Lintas Group
Present: Senior vice president, Famous Innovations
Independent creative agency Famous Innovations has brought Akhilesh Ramachandran on board as the senior vice president. He comes with an experience of more than a decade and has worked across Hill Road Media Services, DDB Mudra Group, FoxyMoron, Havas and L&K Saatchi & Saatchi.
Vignesh Narayanan
Previous: VP-Head of Business – Airtel Ads, Airtel Digital
Present: Vice president – business head, Media, JioAds
JioAds has roped in Vignesh Narayanan as the vice president – business head for Media. Armed with an experience of 18 years, Narayanan has worked across ICICI Bank, Barclays Bank, American Express, Snapdeal, Lazada Group, Zalora, Reebonz.com, Silkrouter, C1X Inc and MediaMath.
Nishit B Vora
Present: Head – marketing, brand and digital, Viacom18
Viacom18 has appointed Nishit B Vora as the head of marketing, brand and digital. Vora is armed with an experience of 14 years and has worked across Concept Engineering International, PhoCusWright, FCB Ulka, KarmYog Education Network and FoxyMoron.
Y Srinivas Raju
Previous: Senior vice president, Dentsu International
Present: Chief strategy officer, ideacafe.agency
Y Srinivas Raju has joined ideacafe.agency as the chief strategy officer. Raju comes with an experience of 18 years and has worked across Sakaal Media, Mediaedge, Mudra Communications, Madison Communications, BPN Worldwide and Milestone Brandcom.
Abhishek Ganguly
Previous: Managing director, Puma India
Abhishek Ganguly has moved on from his respective role at Puma India in order to pursue a career in entrepreneurship. He has been replaced by Karthik Balagopalan. Ganguly is armed with an experience of 21 years and has worked across Reebok India and Indian Angel Network.
Rahool Talukdar
Previous: Senior creative director, iProspect (Dentsu Aegis Network)
Present: Group creative director, Network Advertising
Advertising agency Network Advertising has appointed Rahoool Talukdar as group creative director. Talukdar is armed with an experience of 17 years and has worked across Metamorphosis, Thoughtrains, worldoo, Focus circle brands, Enterprise Network and Biggi.
Anuja Trivedi
Previous: Executive director – content studio, strategy head
Present: Chief marketing officer, Shemaroo Entertainment
Anuja Trivedi has been appointed by Shemaroo Entertainment as the chief marketing officer. In her new role, Trivedi will lead the company’s overall marketing strategy and will be responsible for driving business growth, leading strategic initiatives and strengthening consumer engagement. She is armed with an experience of two decades and has worked across PwC, Morgan Stanley, McKinsey & Company and World Gold Council.
Anand Lakshmanan
Previous: Head of B2B – India and SouthWest Asia, Logitech
Present: Head of India, Logitech
Swiss multinational manufacturer of computer peripherals and software Logitech has promoted Anand Lakshmanan for its India operations. He is armed with an experience of more than 25 years, and has worked across Synergy Forexpress, Canon India, iFlex Solutions, Servion, Viva Communications, GN Netcom, Knoahsoft and NTT.
Vikas Pandey
Previous: Brand manager, DS Group
Present: Marketing and business head, Adomantra Digital
Digital advertising and marketing solutions company Adomantra Digital has appointed Vikas Pandey as the marketing and business head. He comes with an experience of 20 years and has worked across Wockhardt, Pfizer and Colgate-Palmolive India.
Ratiesh Sharma
Previous: Associate Vice President & Head of Marketing, Spectra
Present: Vice president and head of marketing, Biz2X
Biz2X has brought Ratiesh Sharma on board as the vice president and head of marketing. Sharma comes with an experience of over 15 years and has worked across Impetus, BCCL, HCL Technologies, IBM and AgreeYa Solutions.
Compiled by Kashmeera Sambamurthy