Author: Kashmeera Sambamurthy

Punt Partners’ Sidharth Rao: I’d like to believe that I donned the hat of Webchutney’s CHRO

Sidharth Rao said,"Madhu, my co-founder, and I believe given how nascent the martech landscape is, marketers will need time to build inhouse skills to leverage these products to their fullest extent and ensure they work well with all the other products they are using. This will lead to a dual problem - poor outcomes for the marketer and churn for the product provider."

Sidharth Rao, co-founder of Punt Partners, who also founded celebrated ad agency Webchutney, talks about untapped potential in martech, hiring the right talent and his legacy.

RS Sodhi ousted as Amul MD; Jayen Mehta takes interim charge

Sodhi, notably, was first appointed at the helm of Amul in 2010. In 2017, he was given an extension for a period of another five years. (Image source: Twitter)

The decision to replace Sodhi was taken at the board meeting of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), the farmers’ cooperative that operates the Amul brand.

TVS Motor Company appoints Saurab Kapoor as VP-Marketing, Future Mobility

Kapoor is a sales and marketing professional with over sixteen years of experience working with organisations in the consumer durables segment. Before joining OnePlus, Kapoor spent a decade in Samsung Mobile serving the company in different roles. His last assignment was head - marketing planning & media strategy

He joins the firm from OnePlus India where he served the company as marketing director, category, and brand management.

Meta Appoints Vikas Purohit as Head of Global Business Group in India

Purohit who has worked with companies Tata CLiQ, Amazon, Reliance Brands Limited, Aditya Birla Group and Tommy Hilfiger in various sales and marketing roles will spearhead the company’s strategic relationship with the country’s leading brands and agencies to drive Meta’s revenue growth across key channels in India, as well as partner with the media and creative ecosystems for accelerating adoption of digital tools by the largest advertisers and agencies.(Image source: LinkedIn)

Purohit will head Meta’s work with India’s largest businesses and the agency ecosystem.

S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell: India is increasingly seen as an alternative to investment in China

Sir Martin Sorrell said that by 2050, 3 of the world's largest economies, China, India, and Indonesia will be in the top five.

Martin Sorrell, currently Executive Chairman of S4 Capital and former CEO of WPP shares his views on how the past year’s woes and opportunities shaped the advertising and media landscape.

Gozoop, Mullen Lintas, Verve Media, ET Medialabs, The Rethink Company: Biz Moves

Independent marketing group Gozoop Group has bagged the digital mandate of Tim Hortons, a Canadian multinational coffeehouse and restaurant chain. Here, the agency will build the brand’s presence in India by leveraging the international stature of the brand. (Representative Image: Jon Del Rivero via Unsplash)

Keep up with all the key business wins and the account movements.

Bookstrapping: A fresh plea for 2023 – Why you must read!

A thousand CEOs have asked me to talk with their teams on the reading habit, as they seek to foster a culture of lifelong learning in their organisations. What we must appreciate is that the benefits of reading are not necessarily intellectual alone. (Representative Image: kazuend via Unsplash)

Now most things worth reading are chargeable even online. Why not pick up a book?

Motilal Oswal Group’s Raamdeo Agrawal: Goodwill takes 25 years to build, but takes 25 minutes to destroy

EGF, and NLU will collaborate on various projects to analyze and discuss contemporary issues of public concern, and their legal implications and dialogue to exchange information contributing to the advancement of the gaming and technology sector.(Representative Image: Shoeib Abolhassani via Unsplash)

At the launch of ’10X your business’ written by JumboKing Foods MD Dheeraj Gupta, we caught up with Gupta and Motilal Oswal Group’s Raamdeo Agarwal to talk about collaborative growth and the power of franchising.