Category: Brand Makers

ShareChat’s Chief Commercial Officer quits, DDB Mudra Group bolsters leadership team; CXO Moves at Ather Energy, Reliance Retail and more

Mohit H Chablani started his career at Intelenet Global Services, and went on to work across Euclid Infotech Services, Aujas Networks, Media.net, ZEDO and Gameloft. (Representative Image: Ryoji Iwata via Unsplash)

Executive moves in the world of brands and agencies. Find out who’s moved up, in and out.

Bookstrapping: 10 must-read books released in 2022

We are specifically focussed on genres such as productivity, efficiency, psychology, science, biography and marketing. And of you missed the news about these books , we hope our column will serve as a reminder. (Representative Image: Amazon, The Morning Books Show)

Its time for that compelling compilation. Our year-end compilation of books is specifically focused on non-fiction and on genres such as productivity, efficiency, psychology, science, biography and marketing.

BYJU’s Divya Gokulnath on 2022: The year of lessons, resilience, and India’s reckoning

“We wanted to learn from our mistakes and I am happy to share that right from advertising standards to the way in which we communicate our offerings to students to the way in which we service them, on all these parameters, we have improved as a collective body.” - Divya Gokulnath, co-founder, Byju's (Representative Image via LinkedIn)

BYJU’s co-founder Divya Gokulnath shares, “I have always believed in facing headwinds head-on. It is simply not enough to sit back and wait for change to come.”

ShareChat’s chief commercial officer Ajit Varghese steps down

He would also be looking at developing the long-term vision and defining the strategic direction of the sales organization in his new role, said an official statement from the television network. Varghese would be reporting to K Madhavan, president and country manager, Disney Star

Prior to this, Ajit Varghese was the global president of WPP-owned media agency Wavemaker.

GroupM promotes Navin Khemka, Sonali Malaviya for new roles at EssenceMediacom South Asia

Navin Khemka will report to Prasanth Kumar, CEO – GroupM South Asia and Rupert McPetrie, CEO – EssenceMediacom APAC. Sonali Malaviya will report into Khemka.

Khemka and Malaviya will work together to bring additional specialisations such as e-commerce, addressable content, and digital OOH, to the agency’s offerings, along with other responsibilities.

L’Oreal’s global marketing boss Asmita Dubey shares career advice for women: All about “bets and balances”

Dubey has introduced new AR beauty services and virtual try-ons for hair and make-up as well as skin diagnosis through AI, with the latter attracting more than 100 million users in the past year.

Dubey shared highlights of her journey from India to China to Paris, and advice for women in the corporate world.

Suman Sinha Dies: Remembering PepsiCo legend Suman Sinha, “the original cola warrior”

Known for building PepsiCo India and Indianizing the global company offering, Sinha was also known for his networking capabilities and keeping a pulse of the market. Industry remembers him as hard but people oriented manager. (Representational image via Unsplash)

Suman Sinha was the second chairman of PepsiCo India. He served the company for about a decade having joined the company in 1993.