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Bajaj Auto appoints Baminee Viswanat as General Counsel

Baminee Viswanat's appointment at Bajaj Auto is expected to strengthen the company’s legal framework, ensuring robust compliance and governance standards in an evolving regulatory landscape.

Baminee Viswanat’s appointment as General Counsel is effective from February 19, 2025.

Nirvik Singh appointed as Independent Director at Gulf Oil

Nirvik Singh's leadership journey took him to Singapore, where he was appointed Chairman and CEO of Grey Asia-Pacific in 2010 before assuming his global role in 2019.

With over 35 years in the advertising and marketing industry, he has played a key role in shaping global brands and driving business transformation.

Firebolt expands into APAC with Sandeep Mathur as Managing Director

With over 25 years of leadership experience in the technology industry, Sandeep brings a deep understanding of enterprise data and analytics.

Sandeep Mathur will drive Firebolt’s growth strategy in APAC, lead regional go-to-market (GTM) efforts, and collaborate with Firebolt’s leadership to build global teams—including support, sales development, and engineering—based in India.

Mirum India’s Mihir Karkare launches Meru Life; named as its co-founder & CEO

Mihir Karkare co-founded Social Wavelength in 2009, which would later become Mirum India after being acquired by WPP just before the agency's fifth anniversary.

Mihir Karkare previously led Mirum India as its managing director.

Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals names Tanmay Prusty as CMO

In his previous role at Capital Foods, Tanmay Prusty was responsible for leading the integration of Tata Consumer’s recent acquisition, with a business size of ₹800 crores across multiple brands like Ching’s Secret and Smith and Jones.

Tanmay Prusty previously headed Tata Consumer Products’ Capital Foods as business unit head.

CXO Moves: Exec movements across WPP, Raymond Lifestyle, M&S India, JSW MG Motor India and more

Get the full picture on people and their moves on the corporate jungle gym in CXO Moves. (Representative Image: Daryan Shamkhali via Unsplash)

Executive moves in the world of brands and agencies.

WPP’s Chief People Officer Lindsay Pattison to step down

Lindsay Pattison led GroupM as chief transformation officer where she led a number of change programs to support group and agency structures, talent and leadership development, culture and diversity, as well as WPP’s horizontality strategy.

Lindsay Pattison has worked across Sony Ericsson, PHD Media, GroupM etc.

Vipul Mathur to take charge of Ethnix SBU and Raymond Home

Vipul Mathur began his career at Arvind Mills as head of sales, South India, and went on to work across Triburg, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, abof.com, udaan.com, MUFTI, Brand Monk, and NykaaFashion.

Previously, Vipul Mathur led Raymond Lifestyle Limited as the chief business officer.

ShareChat struggling to keep its top brass together, two leaders exit

This year on January 16, ShareChat had laid off around 30-40 employees, and by March 2025, it has been understood that the company aims to bring the employee count to 500. (From left to right: Anurag Verma and Shashank Shekhar)

Anurag Verma and Shashank Shekhar will depart in the month of April.

Clare Lawson named Global President of Ogilvy One

In her new role, Clare Lawson will collaborate with Kent Wertime, CEO of Ogilvy One, and its global leadership team to deliver exceptional value to Ogilvy One's clients worldwide.

In her new role, Clare Lawson will enhance the agency’s capabilities and services globally while nurturing key client partnerships and continuing to lead the team in EMEA.