Category: Brand Makers

Mondelez International elevates Vidya Kailasam Hangal to Director – Omnichannel

Vidya Kailasam Hangal began her career at Infosys Technologies as a software engineer and worked across The Coca-Cola Company, Novartis Consumer Health and Britannia Industries.

In her new role, Vidya Kailasam Hangal’s responsibility will include leading the organized trade vertical of Mondelez India Foods and delivering the modern trade (B2C and B2B) and E-Commerce (Quick commerce, E-Grocery and E-marketplaces) business for the India BU.

Bookstrapping: War By Bob Woodward

After fifty years of reporting on American politics, Woodward has trained his expert lens on the 3 years from 2021 to 2024. He has tremendous access and makes full use of it to give a ringside view of US Foreign policy and how that defines the character of its Presidents. (Image source: Simon & Schuster)

Bob Woodward is famous for his Donald Trump trilogy, the books Fear (2018) Rage (2020) and Peril (2021). Woodward is a two time Pulitzer winner, first in 1973 for the coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein and second in 2003 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Plan, set goals and boundaries, adhere to them: Ritu Mittal of Bayer

"I do believe that prioritising well-being is really crucial. Whether it is physical fitness or practices like mindfulness, they enhance personal resilience and fuel creativity and clarity in professional life," states Ritu Mittal, Head - Marketing and Digital at Bayer Consumer Health Division India.

Ritu Mittal, Head – Marketing and Digital at Bayer Consumer Health Division India, in a conversation with Storyboard18, speaks about how to avoid personal and professional burnout, offers some advice to next-gen marketers, and a lot more.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella receives 63% pay increase for 2024

Satya Nadella's impressive stock awards highlight Microsoft's robust position in the burgeoning generative artificial intelligence sector, notably bolstered by its investment in OpenAI. (Image source: Stanford Graduate School of Business)

As Microsoft’s market value soars past $3 trillion, Nadella’s stock awards significantly boost his earnings, despite a dip in cash incentives linked to cybersecurity concerns.

Atsushi Takase to take charge as MD at Mitsubishi Electric India

Takase joined Mitsubishi Electric in 1988 and has held various significant positions throughout his career

Takase will focus on enhancing operational excellence and sustainable growth at MEI. His mission is to effectively leverage the integrated operations of MEI to addresses social issues through its business while aligning with the “Make in India” initiative.

Mitali Srivastava Hough moves on from McCann Worldgroup to pursue new ventures

In addition to her consultancy work, Mitali Srivastava Hough is diving into a collaboration with musical maestro AR Rahman, where she will be contributing as a writer on a project that is an amalgamation of creativity and technology.

Mitali Srivastava Hough hinted at her intent to mentor her creative consultancy – The Equal Agency and continue advising various other agencies.

Disney+Hotstar’s head Sajith Sivanandan quits

This decision comes post an internal decision regarding all live sporting events of the merged entity, which includes IPL (Indian Premier League) to be streamed on Disney's Hotstar app, and not on Reliance's JioCinema app, further added the report.

Sajith Sivanandan began his career at Star TV and went on to work across The Gallup Organization, Affle UK, and Google.

India will be an intelligence market, RIL’s Mukesh Ambani tells NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang after striking AI partnership

“Reliance and Nvidia are partnering to build AI infrastructure in India,” announced Jensen Huang at the NVIDIA AI Summit on October 24 in Mumbai. He also said that PM Modi had asked him to address his cabinet about artificial intelligence six years ago.