Category: Brand Makers

GroupM promotes Navin Khemka, Sonali Malaviya for new roles at EssenceMediacom South Asia

Navin Khemka will report to Prasanth Kumar, CEO – GroupM South Asia and Rupert McPetrie, CEO – EssenceMediacom APAC. Sonali Malaviya will report into Khemka.

Khemka and Malaviya will work together to bring additional specialisations such as e-commerce, addressable content, and digital OOH, to the agency’s offerings, along with other responsibilities.

L’Oreal’s global marketing boss Asmita Dubey shares career advice for women: All about “bets and balances”

Dubey has introduced new AR beauty services and virtual try-ons for hair and make-up as well as skin diagnosis through AI, with the latter attracting more than 100 million users in the past year.

Dubey shared highlights of her journey from India to China to Paris, and advice for women in the corporate world.

Suman Sinha Dies: Remembering PepsiCo legend Suman Sinha, “the original cola warrior”

Known for building PepsiCo India and Indianizing the global company offering, Sinha was also known for his networking capabilities and keeping a pulse of the market. Industry remembers him as hard but people oriented manager. (Representational image via Unsplash)

Suman Sinha was the second chairman of PepsiCo India. He served the company for about a decade having joined the company in 1993.

Diageo India CEO Hina Nagarajan: Consumers are not necessarily drinking more, but they are drinking better

She also shared that living her purpose has defined the way she brings her best self to work. This is a formula for success she said. It’s how you deliver a win-win situation.

There’s been a structural shift in consumer choices and behavior over the last few years. Consumers are drinking better, they are living in the physical and the digital world now and really experimenting, said Hina Nagarajan, MD and CEO of Diageo India. In an exclusive interview with Storyboard18’s editor Delshad Irani, Nagarajan shared her views on the alcobev major’s premiumisation and M&A strategies, key consumer trends, advertising, women in leadership, ESG agenda and more.

Bookstrapping: In conversation with Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and Unstoppable Us

Yuval Noah Harari's key themes have been that society has largely been driven by our species’s capacity to believe in ‘fictions’ - that exist in our collective imaginations. In this two-part interview series, we focus on storytelling for parents and storytelling for the C-suite.

Author of bestselling books like Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari shares his views on everything from smartphones to social media to sugar, in this two-part special series of Storyboard18’s Bookstrapping.

From CMO to CEO: Unilever’s global CMO Priya Nair in the running for Hindustan Unilever’s CEO position?

Unilever's global CMO Priya Nair stated, "Increasingly, we will see brands using the latest tech to move diversity and inclusion forward in product offerings. The See My Skin campaign from Vaseline is one example of how to address the lack of diversity in images that dermatologists use for diagnoses. It’s just one example of how smart tech combined with great creative can drive positive outcomes for different groups."

Priya Nair is currently Unilever’s global chief marketing officer for beauty & wellbeing. If Nair does become top boss, she would also make history as HUL’s first-ever female CEO.