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Wiggles promotes Prashant Kohli to chief marketing officer

In his new role as CMO, Prashant Kohliwill lead the company’s overall marketing initiatives and drive consumer engagement. It is under his guidance that Wiggles underwent a rebranding and took on its ‘Lovemark’ identity.

The company has elevated Pushkaraj Vartak as chief financial officer (CFO) too. The duo will continue to report to the founder’s office. Their promotions are with immediate effect.

Yum! Brands gets Aparna Bhawal as chief marketing officer

Bhawal is armed with an experience of three decades and has been a part of organisations like First City Publications, GE Money, Procter & Gamble, GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Healthcare India, and The Coca-Cola Company. (Image courtesy: International News Media Association)

Aparna Bhawal will look into marketing at KFC India and the partner countries.

Volvo Car India onboards Dipankar Mukherjee as head of marketing and PR

Prior to this, Dipankar Mukherjee has worked with companies like Samsung Electronics, AB InBev, DishTV, Ola Foodpanda, Ola Electric Mobility, and Molson Coors Beverage Company.

Dipankar Mukherjee replaces Amit Jain, who last year had moved within Volvo Cars to a regional role.

Prime Video makes Sushant Sreeram country director, India; promotes Gaurav Gandhi to VP, APAC

Gaurav Gandhi to Vice President, Asia Pacific, Amazon PrimeVideo & Sushant Sreeram, Country Director, India, Amazon PrimeVideo

Prior to Amazon, Gaurav has worked in companies such as Viacom18, NDTV Imagine and STAR India in various leadership roles. Prior to joining Amazon, Sushant led marketing for Xiaomi in India.

Wingreens’ Pawan Sarda joins House of Abhinandan Lodha as chief growth officer

Prior to joining Wingreen Worlds, at Future Group India, he launched and drove Big Bazaar, drove Omni channel marketing and commerce for the retail chain company etc. (Image source: LinkedIn)

Pawan Sarda was Wingreen’s group CMO and helped grow the D2C brand as it expanded and acquired other companies.

Pizza Hut India appoints Aanandita Datta as Chief Marketing Officer

With close to 17 years of experience, Datta was previously designated as global brand director, Unilever, based out of the Netherlands. She has previously worked with consumer goods firms, managing brands such as Lipton, Kissan, Taaza at Unilever alongwith corporate brand Unilever, Horlicks and Sensodyne at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare and Whirlpool Refrigerators. (Image source: LinkedIn)

The company said that Datta will oversee all aspects of marketing and branding, with the core objective of transforming Pizza Hut into a ‘Younger and Everyday’ brand.

Zoo Media’s FoxyMoron appoints Vivek Das as chief executive officer

Das has worn both business and strategy hats leading large clusters of clients across geographical markets and marquee brands. They include Disney Star, PepsiCo, Ford India, Airtel, Hindustan Unilever, AMEX, Lufthansa, YUM Brands, The Muthoot Group & Apollo Tyres etc

Vivek Das, who was previously the vice president at WPP’s Mindshare, in his present role, he will build an inclusive and world class digital team capable of delivering outcomes focused digital solutions to clients.

L&K Saatchi & Saatchi appoints Hindol Purkayastha as business head and executive vice-president

Purkayastha joins the agency from Dentsu Creative where he last served as an executive vice-president. He has spent over two decades with agencies such as Lowe, BBDO, and Publicis Capital

Hindol comes with over two decades of experience and his last stint was at Dentsu Creative as the executive-vice president.

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Wavemaker India hires George Kovoor as chief creative officer

George Kovoor is an accomplished creative leader with three decades of experience in digital, social, tech, and mainline advertising. Over the years he has led creative teams across advertising agencies like Lintas, FCB, Digitas LBi and Ogilvy among others.

Kovoor joins Wavemaker after his eight-year-long stint with Ogilvy where he was digital lead – Mumbai and South operations.