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Publicis Media appoints Anil K Pandit as executive vice president – head of programmatic, data, tech

At Omnicom Media, Anil K Pandit was the vice president - OMG programmatic, lead- Accuen India.

Anil K Pandit began his career at the Times of India as the senior officer, and went on to work across India Today, Apnapaisa, People Interactive India, Omnicom Media Group and MicroAd.

Peenaz Tyagi appointed India TV’s executive editor

Tyagi has been in the industry for over 22 years. (Image sourced via YouTube - TedTalks)

Tyagi previously worked for News Nation as senior news anchor and digital head, where she had a decade long stint.

Zetwerk appoints Josh Foulger as president – electronics

Previously, Josh Foulger also worked with Nokia Corporation, where he spent seventeen plus years with the company.

In his new role, Josh Foulger will spearhead the consumer and electronics manufacturing segment of the company and work closely with Rahul Sharma, co-founder of Zetwerk.

Pidilite appoints Sudhanshu Vats as MD designate; Kavinder Singh as joint MD

Commenting on the announcement, M. B. Parekh, executive chairman of Pidilite Industries, said “The appointments of Sudhanshu and Kavinder will reflect the next phase of the Pidilite leadership journey. I look forward to working with the two of them in building the Pidilite of the future." (From left to right: Sudhanshu Vats, Bharat Puri and Kavinder Singh)

Sudhanshu Vats and Kavinder Singh will take charge of Pidilite after current Managing Director, Bharat Puri’s term ends.

Sridhar Ramaswamy joins Snowflake as chief executive officer

Sridhar Ramaswamy started his career at Telecordia Technologies, and went on to work across Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, E.piphany, Google and Neeva.

Sridhar Ramaswamy succeeds Frank Slootman, who announced his retirement. But, he will continue to serve as chairman of the board.

Rayomand J Patell joins Laqshya Group as group chief creative officer

Rayomand J Patell began his career at Everest Young & Rubicam, and went on to work across SSC&B Lintas, Contract India, Havas Worldwide and Idealake Information Technology Pvt. Ltd.

As group chief creative officer, Rayomand J Patell’s role will be to significantly raise the bar on creativity, effectiveness and integrated synergies.

Aerospike appoints Khushal Bhansali as country head – India and South Asia

Prior to joining Aerospike, Khushal Bhansali held key leadership positions at companies such as Informatica, BMC Software, Novell/SuSe Inc, and TigerGraph.

In his new role, Khushal Bhansali will lead Aerospike’s business operations for these markets, focusing on expanding the company’s presence, driving growth, and delivering exceptional customer service.

NOFILTR.GROUP elevates Hitarth Dadia as chief executive officer

In his role, Hitarth Dadia will be responsible for optimising business collaborations and creating a profitable entrepreneurial blueprint for the influencers associated with NOFILTR.Group.

Hitarth Dadia was the chief marketing officer at NOFILTR.GROUP.

Xiaomi Technology’s Manu Kumar Jain announces G42’s founding team

Manu Kumar Jain, who had led Xiaomi Technology as global vice president, had joined G42 as chief executive officer in September 2023.

Aakriti Gupta will head the company as the finance director, Reema Dash will take up the designation of a legal director. Sanuj Shah has been onboarded as the program director, and Rahul Pal will look after spearheading the AI efforts.

PayU Payments appoints five new members to its board of directors

The new directors join chief executive officer Anirban Mukherjee and chief finance officer Arvind Agarwal on the board of PayU India. (Representative Image: Towfiqu barbhuiya via Unsplash)

The board additions also come in at a time when PayU India is working towards a public listing and has begun the process internally.