Tag: CXO Moves

Aditya Birla Capital promotes Darshana Shah as head – marketing and CX

Shah has over 26 years of work experience. She started her career at Boston Software & Technologies as a marketing manager, business manager - Cyberkids. Then, she joined NIIT as the product manager for the sales and marketing department. Shah also held senior level marketing roles at Future Group, Reliance Retail and HyperCITY Retail

Prior to this, Darshana Shah was the executive vice president – digital, marketing and customer experience at Aditya Birla Capital.

Nitish Mittersain takes over as CEO of Nazara

Nitish Mittersain, the founder and joint managing director of gaming and sports media company Nazara Technologies is taking charge as the CEO.

The company also saw some other changes at the management level this year. Sudhir Kamath was appointed as Nazara Technologies’ new chief operating in October.

Former Coca-Cola India executive Aditi Anand joins L’Oreal Professionnel as head of marketing

As the head - creative strategy for Coca-Cola, India and South West Asia, Anand led Creative Strategy for Coke in India and Southwest Asia. In this role, I was responsible for translating the Brand and Business strategy into a Consumer Strategy and communicating the same through rich, immersive platform ideas.

Aditi Anand has also worked with brands like HMD Global, Flipkart, and Airtel, among others. This is the first time she is going to work with the beauty category.

Former Nestle marketing executive Ankit Kapoor joins Ananta Capital as chief marketing officer

An FMCG leader with almost over 15 years of experience in leading businesses and brands across countries, categories and companies, as the head of marketing for chocolates & confectionery, Ankit Kapoor led Nestle’s global brands - KitKat, Milkybar, BarOne along with E-Commerce and Modern Trade for the business unit.

Ankit Kapoor spent over six years at FMCG major Nestle where he led global brands – KitKat, Milkybar, BarOne along with e-commerce and modern trade.

Short video platform Josh’s country manager Rubeena Singh quits

Singh joined Josh, a homegrown short video platform in October 2021. Prior to this Singh was the chief executive officer of Dentsu Group-owned digital-first media agency iProspect, where she spent four years.

Prior to this, Singh was the chief executive officer of Dentsu Group-owned digital-first media agency iProspect, where she spent four years.

Dentsu hires Unmesh Pawar as chief people officer for India and South Asia

Unmesh has more than 25 years of experience in diverse aspects of human resources, with an early foundation in services and consulting. He has built differentiated capabilities for well-known brands such as Accenture, Mastek, Tata, and Peerless by designing and deploying innovative talent management practices. Previously, he served as KPMG's chief people officer, guiding the brand through a period of rapid change, and delivering on a progressive people agenda.

Sunil Seth, who has been supporting the network as human resource director-South Asia, will continue to maintain his role in Dentsu India. He will report to Pawar and focus on the people function’s operations.

MullenLowe Lintas Group: Amer Jaleel and Virat Tandon quit, Subbu new Group CEO

"The one size fits all approach to marketing or brand building does not seem to work anymore in the context of angularly rising ‘many India’s,’" said Subbu.

S.Subramanyeswar (Subbu) will continue to directly lead the strategy function for the Group in India and maintain his role as chief strategy officer for the MullenLowe APAC region.