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Zeenah Vilcassim moves on from Bacardi India

Vilcassim was promoted in April 2021 to head consumer and customer marketing across the entire Bacardi portfolio of brands. She joined Bacardi four years ago as global brand director for Dewar’s Scotch whisky. She was based out of the company’s Gurugram office.

She was serving the liquor firm as its marketing director for India.

OnePlus’s Navnit Nakra joins Pine Labs as Chief Revenue Officer

Navnit Nakra started his career at Citi as manager - risk analytics and credit operations. He rose to the ranks to head the investment banking company as regional lead - e-commerce and looked after the India, Greater China and the Korea region.

Previously, Navnit Nakra led OnePlus as chief executive officer.

Dentsu Creative India hires Aneesh Jaisinghani as senior group executive creative director

Prior to this, Aneesh Jaisinghani was the senior executive creative director at Cheil India, where he successfully led Samsung's mobile business.

Aneesh Jaisinghani will be reporting to Joy Mohanty, chief creative officer – North, Dentsu Creative India.

CXO Movement: Exec movements at Bajaj Auto, Nykaa, Microsoft, DDB Mudra, Bata and more

Get the full picture on people and their moves on the corporate jungle gym in CXO Moves. (From left to right: Anant Maheshwari, Shalini Raghavan, Debabrata Mukherjee and Deepika Warrier)

Executives move in the world of brands and agencies.

Anant Maheshwari joins Honeywell as President and CEO, to lead high growth region

Anant Maheshwari joins Honeywell from Microsoft, where he served as president and chief executive officer of Microsoft India.

Maheshwari returns to Honeywell with more than a decade of experience working in Honeywell’s high growth regions and most recently leading Microsoft India for seven years.

DDB Tribal appoints Purva Ummat as Group Creative Director

Purva Ummat will report to Iraj Fraz, who heads creative for DDB Tribal.

In Purva Ummat’s decade long career, she has also worked on brands such as Aditya Birla Group, Paytm First Games, Marico. Her journey as a creative leader began early with agencies such as Dentsu Creative, McCann Worldgroup and Ogilvy.

Rediffusion appoints Dipty Gurjar to lead Bombay client servicing function

Gurjar with over 15 plus years of experience across India and Australia; having worked on a varied brand categories.

Previous to Rediffusion, Gurjar has worked in India with agencies such asThe Womb, Leo Burnett, Havas Media (earlier known as Euro RSCG) etc. and agencies like Chameleon and Impact in Australia.

Dentsu Creative appoints Manzoor Alam as ECD

As per the mandate, Alam will spearhead teams working on brands like Honda Cars, Max Healthcare, Catch Spices, Royal Stag, 100 Pipers, Herbalife, Hamdard, and Carlsberg, to name a few from the agency’s Gurgaon office.

Avyan Global appoints Gautam Dutt as CEO

Gautam Dutt brings with him extensive industry experience having held senior marketing and agency roles across India, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

In his new role, Gautam Dutt will be responsible for driving expansion of Singapore headquartered Avyan Global through accelerated client acquisition and regional expansion primarily focussed on Southeast Asia and India.

Havas Worldwide onboards Kundan Joshee as managing partner and head – West and South

Kundan Joshee will be based in Mumbai and will report to Tarun Jha, chief executive officer, Havas Worldwide India.

In his new role, Kundan Joshee will oversee Havas Worldwide India’s West and South India operations, which handles some marquee clients including Citroën, Britannia The Laughing Cow, JBL, Celio, Tata CLiQ Luxury, among others.