Wavemaker India promotes Sairam Ranganathan to chief digital officer

Team Wavemaker NorthStar will bring in the right experts across platforms, commerce, analytics and tech to orchestrate data-led solutions that yield business results. In his new role, Ranganathan will continue to report into Vishal Jacob, chief transformation officer at Wavemaker India.

As the head of Wavemaker NorthStar, Ranganathan will work with clients to drive business outcomes.

Atul Sinha elevated as chief operating officer of CaratLane

An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Sinha joined CaratLane on June 1, 2015, after commencing his career at Hindustan Unilever.

Atul Sinha will assume responsibility for the P&L operations of CaratLane India, focusing on driving growth and efficiency.

Honasa Consumer hires Nishchay Bahl as SVP – offline business

Nishchay Bahl comes with over 15 years of leadership experience managing cross functional teams in various [P&L roles in the FMCG domain across channels (GT, MT, e-commerce) with functional expertise in sales, key account management, digital marketing, customer and shopper marketing and brand management across some of the leading CPG companies in India like Britannia and Reckitt.

In his last role, Bahl was the chief business officer (offline) for Good Glam Group.

WPP’s Martina Suess Cromer joins FCB as global chief communications officer

Cromer joins FCB from WPP, where, for the last four years, she led corporate communications across the U.S., the company’s largest market. Prior to joining WPP, she was the global head of marketing and communications at Hearst-owned agency iCrossing and, before that, the vice president of global corporate communications at Wunderman.

Based in New York, Cromer joins FCB’s global leadership team reporting to global chief executive officer Tyler Turnbull and global chair and global chief creative officer Susan Credle directly.

Dunzo co-founder Dalvir Suri to exit cash-strapped startup

While Dalvir Suri overlooked operations across the company, he was particularly responsible to scale Dunzo's B2B business, Dunzo Merchandise Service (DMS), which now accounts for a majority of Dunzo's business since the company has been scaled down its customer-centric arm.

Sources at the company highlighted that Suri has tried exiting the firm earlier, but had stayed back after discussions with CEO Biswas. Suri has no stake in Dunzo and took home just a salary with some ESOPs, like several other employees.