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L&K Saatchi & Saatchi hires Debanjan Basak as executive creative director

Prior to joining L&K Saatchi & Saatchi, Debanjan Basak was with Havas India as a group creative director. His earlier stints include Contract Advertising, Dentsu Creative, and Percept.

Debanjan Basak will be based in Gurugram and report to Rohit Malkani, Jt. national creative director at L&K Saatchi & Saatchi.

Publicis Groupe appoints Kedar Teny as chief product officer

Kedar Teny will be overseeing and expanding on the Groupe’s product offerings by tapping into its diverse capabilities across creative, media, commerce, PR, production, digital technology and analytics.

Kedar Teny’s most recent stint was as CEO for Lowe Lintas India.

Wavemaker India bolsters its North leadership team

In their new roles, both Jasmine Sachdeva (pictured left) and Dipika Bhasin (pictured right) will be reporting to Shekhar Banerjee.

The agency has appointed Jasmine Sachdeva as managing partner and Dipika Bhasin as head for team Reckitt.

Sleepwell promotes Ajay Pandey as vice president – marketing

Ajay Pandey started his career as a sales trainer at NIPM - pharma management. His innings at Sleepwell began in 2013 as a management trainee.

Ajay Pandey held the position of head of media at Sleepwell previously

CXO Moves: Exec movements at Google, HDFC Bank, Revolt Motors and more

Get the full picture on people and their moves on the corporate jungle gym in CXO Moves. (From left to right: Ravi Santhanam, Lindsay Pattison, Shivani Behl and Anadi Sharma)

Executive moves in the world of brands and agencies.

HDFC Bank elevates Ravi Santhanam as group head and CMO

Ravi Santhanam, who started his career at Bajaj Auto, went on to work across ICICI Bank, Powergen, Reliance Communications and Vodafone.

Ravi Santhanam was previously the chief marketing officer and head of corporate communications.

Revolt Motors appoints Anadi Sharma as general manager – marketing

Anadi Sharma started his career at Infosys and went on to work across AdGlobal360, iris worldwide, Leo Burnett, SapientRazorfish, Cheil India, Toaster, Huawei, RepIndia, ByteDance and Twitter.

Previously, Anadi Sharma was the director – strategy and expansion at CarDekho.

Puretech Digital appoints Parthiv Majmudar as vice president – operations, delivery and client engagement

Previously, Parthiv majmudar was the vice president - e-commerce at ManipalCigna Health Insurance.

Parthiv Majmudar’s role at Puretech Digital will be to bring in the necessary integration across all service lines as a one team one experience framework for their clients and ensuring the team delivers highest quality of work with business impact.

WPP promotes Lindsay Pattison to global chief people officer

Lindsay Pattison is currently WPP’s global chief client officer, leading WPP’s relationships with its major clients – a role she has held since 2018. She is responsible for developing and supporting the global client leaders of the company’s largest clients, representing a third of WPP’s revenue.

Lindsay Pattison succeeds Jennifer Remling, who is leaving to become chief people officer at Warner Bros. Discovery.

Google India appoints Shekar Khosla as VP marketing

Shekar Khosla was also with Unilever for over 20 years in different capacities.

Shekar Khosla was earlier the chief commercial officer at Kellogg.