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Kevin Vaz quits Disney Star; Senior level exits at the company continue

These departures come at a crucial juncture for Star Sports, especially considering the challenging financial landscape. (Representative Image: Grant Durrs via Unsplash)

Storyboard18 had first reported on an exodus at Disney Star. After a recent string of resignations at its sports division, the company’s entertainment arm has witnessed two senior level exits: reports.

Fundamental appoints Neeraj Kanitkar as co–founder and ECD

Neeraj Kanitkar comes with an experience of 15 years and has worked on many accounts which include McDonald’s, Stayfree, McDowell’s No.1, Lenovo, WhatsApp, Myntra, Star Sports (IPL), Times of India and FirstPost.

Previously, Neeraj Kanitkar was the ECD at DDB Mudra Group.

GroupM India’s Dialogue Factory announces transition of leadership

Dalveer Singh, head of experiential marketing, Dialogue Factory - APAC will be stepping down, and Ajay Mehta, managing director of GroupM’s iTV and Kinetic will now take over Dialogue Factory’s rural and experiential offerings along with the out-of-home offerings i.e., Cinema and OOH. (From left to right: Ajay Mehta and Dalveer Singh)

As per Prasanth Kumar, South Asia CEO of GroupM, “In the last 14 years, Dalveer has set up Dialogue Factory, GroupM’s Healthcare unit and has led multiple award-winning projects within WPP. He has created unique experiential and rural marketing practices. Ajay brings with him a wealth of experience and a proven track record of success in the industry. He has been an integral part of GroupM India for nearly 15 years and has played a key role in driving the growth and success of our businesses.”

Kellogg appoints Vinay Subramanyam as head of marketing for India & South Asia

Vinay Subramanyam re-joins Kellogg after having served in sales development and category marketing roles between 2011 and 2015.

Subramanyam’s last stint was at Pidilite Industries, where he held the position of the chief marketing officer.

CXO Moves: Find out who moved up, in and out at McCann, L’Oreal, Nykaa, LinkedIn, Havas and more

Get the full picture on people and their moves on the corporate jungle gym in CXO Moves. (From left to right: Vikas Gupta, Sangeeta Barde, Ajay Simha and Santosh Krishnamoorthy)

Executive moves in the world of brands and agencies.

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 .

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

Get the full picture on people and their moves on the corporate jungle gym in CXO Moves. (From left to right: Deepa Jatkar, Asad Ayaz, Kedar Apte and Madhav Sheth)

Executive moves in the world of brands and agencies.

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.