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Pearson’s Siddharth Banerjee joins UNIVO as CEO

Siddharth Banerjee went on to lead Unilever as the country marketing director and board member.

Siddharth Banerjee has more than two decades of experience and has worked across Reckitt Benckiser, General Mills, Unilever, Vodafone, Games24x7 and Pearson.

Madhav Sheth quits realme, likely to join another Chinese phone maker

Madhav Sheth is armed with an experience of two decades and started his career at Synopsis Inc as data analyst. He moved to Priory Business Group as sales manager and from there, he moved to Perfect Communications as the sales director.

Madhav Sheth, who served for more than five years at realme, started his career at the company as the CEO in 2018.

Anshul Khanna promoted to VP and foods category head for PepsiCo India and South Asia

Anshul Khanna was previously senior director, global brands marketing, based out of Dublin (Ireland).

Anshul Khanna was previously senior Director Marketing, foods category at PepsiCo India.

Wavemaker appoints Mondelez International’s Sindhuja Rai as its APAC CEO

Wavemaker’s newly appointed APAC CEO Sindhuja Rai, says that the task cut out for her as an APAC leader for Wavemaker is to ensure that they become a lot more strongly engaged and embedded with their clients.

Sindhuja Rai’s new position involves joining Wavemaker’s global executive team as well as the GroupM leadership team ExCo.

Storyboard18 Exclusive: Webchutney’s Sumera Dewan to lead Punt Partners’ new creative division

Sumera Dewan has worked with a diverse range of clients, including YouTube, Nestle, Airtel, Under Armour, Tinder, Spotify, Unilever, Platinum Guild International, among others.

Punt Partners, the tech start-up co-founded by Sidharth Rao and Madhu Sudhan in September 2022, has launched a division called Punt Creative.

More changes in Dentsu’s leadership; Roopam Garg of Dentsu X on his way out

Roopam Garg has over two decades of experience in advertising. Prior to this, Garg held senior leadership roles in Publicis Groupe Vietnam and ZenithOptimedia Group India.

Roopam Garg, who had joined Dentsu in 2017, replaced Divya Karani as the chief executive officer in September 2021.

Diageo India appoints Ruchira Jaitly as the chief marketing officer

Ruchira Jaitly has over 23 years of experience in Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Innovation, Business, Start-Up, Impact Business Creation and in Market Consumer & Customer Engagement at Unilever, PepsiCo, Royal DSM, HMD Global (Home of Nokia Phones).

Ruchira Jaitly takes over as CMO at a time when Diageo India has accelerated its innovation and premiumization strategies with a focus on sustainability.

Diageo India’s CMO Deepika Warrier quits; Ruchira Jaitly to take over

Deepika Warrier spent 20 years with Pepsico, where she was instrumental in driving strategic development, innovation, brand equity enhancement and resource allocation across a range of beverages, and juice-based drinks.

Deepika Warrier’s last working day at the company is 31 July. Ruchira Jaitly, who currently serves the company as the executive vice president, marketing, will take over as the new CMO from August 1.

CXO Moves: Exec movements at Grey Group, Publicis Groupe, Licious, Sony Pictures, Aditya Birla Fashion and more

Get the full picture on people and their moves on the corporate jungle gym in CXO Moves. (From left to right: Ankit Mathur, Sumant Bhattacharya, Viabhav Jadon and Rishabh Verma)

Executive moves in the world of brands and agencies.

Zenith appoints Vaibhav Jadon as national buying head

Previously, he was heading the national media-buying and partnerships at Dentsu.

His responsibilities will include leading the integrated buying function, driving strategy and ensuring executional excellence across Zenith India’s client portfolio.