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Dentsu Creative India hires Surjo Dutt as chief creative officer, West and South

Surjo Dutt is the former chief creative officer of FCB India. Prior to that, Dutt led the establishment and growth of Sapient Nitro's advertising business as the national creative director - North. He also made significant contributions as the vice president and executive creative director at JWT.

In his new role, Surjo Dutt will report into Amit Wadhwa, CEO, Dentsu Creative India.

Aalap Desai bids adieu to Dentsu India

Aalap Desai has been a part of the creative teams at Disney+Hotstar, Leo Burnett, JWT, DDB Mudra, Ogilvy, and Publicis Ambience too.

Aalap Desai had joined the India unit of the Japanese advertising network in 2018.

Bombay Shaving Company promotes Varun Gupta as chief growth officer

Varun Gupta has built a future-ready ecommerce team across direct-to-consumer (D2C) and marketplaces-enabling a staggering 77 percent growth and increasing profitability by an impressive 80 percent.

Previously, Varun Gupta was the SVP – head of growth of Bombay Shaving Company & Bombae, VLPCPL.

Wavemaker India’s Premjeet Sodhi, Mansi Datta and Shekhar Banerjee get new roles

In their new roles, Mansi Datta and Shekhar Banerjee will report into Ajay Gupte. (L to R: Shekhar Banerjee, Mansi Datta, and Premjeet Sodhi)

Premjeet Sodhi becomes global head of measurement and analytics. Mansi Datta is the agency’s new chief strategy officer. Shekhar Banerjee, chief client officer and office Head – West, will be taking on the additional responsibility of managing North and East for Wavemaker India.

Exec movements at ITC, Mindshare, Godrej & Boyce, Viacom18, and more

Get the full picture on people and their moves on the corporate jungle gym in CXO Moves. (From left to right: Diwan Arun Nanda, Shashank Sinha, Sanjiv Puri and Rajeev Jain)

Executive moves in the world of brands and agencies.

Meta India’s Snehi Jha is now head of Mindshare Fulcrum – South Asia

Most recently, Snehi Jha was a part of the Meta India leadership team. During her tenure, which began in 2013, Snehi played a pivotal role in developing and executing the sales strategy for the Indian market. She led efforts in ad product monetization growth, product development, and client solutions.

In her new role, Snehi Jha will report directly to the CEO of Mindshare South Asia, Amin Lakhani, based out of the Mumbai office.

Pearson appoints Siddharth Parnerkar as international sales director for Workforce Skills in India  

Prior to joining Pearson, Parnerkar had a long stint of 16 years at Vodafone, during which, he held key leadership roles to drive the growth of their B2B and Strategic Alliances business, managing JVCo and M&A opportunities, and launch of new businesses in the Mobile Commerce space.

Siddharth Parnerkar’s experience and expertise will be instrumental in driving Pearson’s endeavour to address the upskilling requirements of the workforce and help organisations understand, maintain and enhance their most important asset, their people.

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