Nykaa Fashion CEO Nihir Parikh steps down

Nihir Parikh joined Nykaa as a chief strategy officer, and here, he supported Nykaa’s Series B funding of $9.5M in Oct 2015, guided product and tech till June 2016 and supported HR till Nov 2017.

Nihir Parikh joined Nykaa as a chief strategy officer.

Raymond Lifestyle names Sunil Kataria as MD

Sunil Kataria was the CEO - India and South Asia at Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL) since 2015 where he led scale up and transformation of the business. Kataria has also served as Business Head in two challenging service sectors: retail and telecom, leading large and complex business operations. He began his career with Marico where he spent more than a decade in sales and marketing.

Sunil Kataria was the chief executive officer – Raymond Lifestyle (India & International), a position he held since March, 2022.

Raymond Lifestyle names Gautam Hari Singhania as Executive Chairman

Gautam Hari Singhania is a commerce graduate from the University of Mumbai. With over three decades of experience in the field of Industry, Business and Corporate Management, he has been at the helm of the affairs and operations of the company along with the Board of Directors.

Gautam Hari Singhania took over the reins of Raymond Limited as the Chairman & Managing Director in September 1990.

Unilever’s global chief of transformation Nicky Sparshott quits

Nicky Sparshott began her career at HP as sales and marketing coordinator, and then joined Procter & Gamble as brand manager. Then, she joined Unilever as assistant brand manager and then moved to The Coca Cola Company as senior marketing manager.

During her tenure, Nicky Sparshott led the Unilever Global Transformation Office to design and land complex organizational change initiatives, at scale, enhancing efficiency, innovation, competitive advantage and value creation.

OpenAI gets its first-ever CMO; Coinbase’s Kate Rouch joins Sam Altman’s AI firm as CMO

Kate Rouch began her career as a consultant at The Bridgespan Group, and then worked at Meta. During her stint at Meta as vice president, global head of brand and product marketing, Rouch spent over a decade at Meta. She led brand and product marketing for Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook. (Image source: Kate Rouch and Sam Altman (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub))

Kate Rouch previously led Coinbase as chief marketing officer.

Bumble restructures senior leadership team

Bumble Inc announced key updates to the company’s senior leadership team and reaffirmed the company’s outlook for fiscal year 2024. (From left to right: Anu Subramanian, Neil Shah and Selby Drummond)

Neil Shah has been appointed as chief business officer. Anu Subramanian and Selby Drummond announced plans to depart from their roles as chief financial officer and chief marketing officer to pursue opportunities outside the company.

Adobe Appoints Lara Balazs as Chief Marketing Officer

Lara Balazs previously served as CMO and General Manager, Strategic Partner Group at financial software and services leader Intuit, where she reimagined the company’s brand and go-to-market activities to support its AI-driven financial technology platform and elevated its brand awareness and reputation to new heights.

Lara Balazs will lead the Global Marketing Organization responsible for Adobe’s brand, Adobe.com, the company’s industry-leading events, campaigns, communications, social media and its media operations and marketing insights.

Intel Corporation’s CEO Patrick Gelsinger steps down

Patrick P. Gelsinger has more than four decades of technology leadership and experience driving innovation, with 30 of those years serving in Intel engineering and executive roles.

Intel Corporation has named named chief financial officer David Zinsner and senior executive Michelle Johnston Holthaus as interim co-chief executive officers.