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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 .

CXO Moves: Entries and exits at Reliance Retail, Pidilite, Realme, Chaayos, Titan, EaseMyTrip and more

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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.

Meta’s Deepa Jatkar joins Wavemaker India as chief growth officer

Deepa Jatkar joins Wavemaker from Meta India, where she was a part of the global sales and marketing team and a key member of the India sales leadership team.

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).

CXO Moves: Exec elevations and exits at Dentsu, Publicis, EssenceMediacom, L&K Saatchi & Saatchi, DDB Mudra, Noise and more

Get the full picture on people and their moves on the corporate jungle gym in CXO Moves. (From left to right:Debra Crew, Fred Levron, Nikhil Chand, Deepak Sharma)

Executive moves in the world of brands and agencies.

Noise hires Gaurav Mehta as chief marketing officer

In his role as chief marketing officer, Gaurav Mehta will be leading the marketing function through his strategic initiatives. Further, he will also be responsible for devising strategies and overseeing overall marketing efforts that will in turn reinforce strong brand building and revenue growth in the long run.

Gaurav Mehta, who is armed with an experience of more than two decades, has been associated with brands such as Yahoo, OLX, Car Dekho and Zupee.

Dentsu’s chief creative officer Fred Levron quits

Fred Levron started off as an executive creative director or creative director with Ogilvy & Mather. From there, he moved to the Creative Artists Agency as the global executive creative director. (Image source: LinkedIn)

Fred Levron, who comes with an experience of two decades, established the foundation of the Japanese network’s new creative unit, Dentsu Creative.