Tag: CXO Moves

VLCC appoints Nykaa’s Vikas Gupta as CEO

Vikas Gupta was also the chief customer and marketing officer for Flipkart between 2019-2021. Gupta started his career as a management trainee with HUL in 1998 and spent 21 years with Unilever, leading brand marketing for Lux, Dove, Dirt Is Good brands. He was also the executive director of Home Care for Unilever Indonesia.

Vikas Gupta joins from Nykaa where he was the CEO of SuperStore, Nykaa’s eB2B business. He is armed with 25 years of FMCG and ecommerce experience, and has worked at Unilever and Flipkart.

Bajaj Electricals appoints Devika Sachdev as head of advertising and brand management

Sachdev comes with an experience of 21 years in brand marketing and communications. She has worked across various consumer businesses, namely the Aditya Birla Group, General Mills, Godrej Consumer Products, Bajaj Consumer Care and Marico.

In this role, Devika Sachdev will drive the communication agenda and frame integrated marketing communications strategies across Bajaj, Morphy Richards and Nirlep brands.

Havas India elevates Sangeeta Barde as Havas Life Sorento’s CEO

As part of her new role, Sangeeta Barde will drive the success model for offshoring and achieving strategic and impactful globalisation initiatives and will also be the regional head of HH&Y Middle East.

In addition, Sangeeta Barde has also been named as regional head of Havas Health and You Middle East .

Google India’s Vishal Sinha joins ShareChat as the director – ads strategy

Vishal Sinha has also worked with global tech companies like Gartner and Oracle as a business development manager, providing critical business insights to the organisations, building strong and trusted relationships at the CXO level of small and medium size organisations, leading account strategy and planning end-to-end sales cycle.

Vishal Sinha’s mandate will include leading the strategy team for ads business for both ShareChat and Moj.

Amul’s former chief RS Sodhi joins Reliance Retail Ventures to help build grocery business

RS Sodhi, who served as the managing director at Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) since 2010, moved on from the company on January 9. Sodhi was given an extension for a period of another five years. The decision to remove Sodhi was taken at the board meeting of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), the farmers' cooperative that operates the Amul brand. In his place, the dairy sector cooperative giant has appointed Jayan Mehta as its MD for an interim period. (Image source: News18)

RS Sodhi will help build the company’s growth in the grocery space with a focus on fruits and vegetables.

Manas Lahiri appointed Famous Innovations’ COO

With over 21 years of experience in marketing and advertising, Lahiri expertise lie in harnessing data and analysis to shape strategy for the companies. He has held senior positions at various renowned agencies and brands, including Samsung, Motorola, McCann, Ogilvy, Havas Worldwide, and more.

He joins the agency from Havas Group India where he was serving as the managing director (MD).