Brand Makers – Page 98

Havas Worldwide India announces key appointments in strategy team

From left - Jasravee Kaur Chandra and Mohini Varma

Mohini Varma has joined as executive vice president & planning head – North, and Jasravee Kaur Chandra has been appointed as senior vice president of Havas Worldwide India. Both will report to Anirban Mozumdar, chief strategy officer, Havas Worldwide India, and will be based out of Gurgaon and Mumbai, respectively.

Coca-Cola appoints Irene Tan as Vice President – Human Resources

Irene Tan joined the company in 2012 in Singapore as a talent sourcing consultant for the Asia Pacific Group. She became the lead talent acquisition partner for Greater China and Korea and moved to Shanghai.

Irene Tan’s responsibilities will include accelerating INSWA’s growth by recruiting future-ready talent, performance enablement and employee development for the company in India and Southwest Asia.

Creativity meets tech: Storyboard18 YoungGuns

Storyboard18 will honour the YoungGuns at a glittering ceremony in August. There will be insightful and nuanced conversations as marketing and business leaders come together for an exclusive gathering to encourage, support and celebrate the bold brand makers.

Josy Paul, chairman and chief creative officer, BBDO India, Vaishali Verma, chief executive officer, Initiative and Arun Iyer, founder and creative partner, Spring Marketing Capital share why they’re excited about Storyboard18’s YoungGuns initiative.

Ambareesh Murty passes away; Murty was Pepperfry’s Co-Founder and CEO

Prior to founding Pepperfry, Ambareesh Murty was the country manager of eBay India, Philippines and Malaysia, where he step-jumped eBay’s growth by tailoring products and processes to local requirements while delivering a superior customer experience.

Reports indicate that Ambareesh Murty passed away due to cardiac arrest. He was 51.

Max Healthcare’s Mohan Menon joins Metropolis Healthcare as Chief Marketing Officer

Mohan Menon's innings at Samsung India Electronics began as assistant product manager, and he rose to the ranks to head as assistant manager - marketing.

Previously, Mohan Menon led Max Healthcare as senior vice president and head – marketing and digital.

Zeenah Vilcassim moves on from Bacardi India

Vilcassim was promoted in April 2021 to head consumer and customer marketing across the entire Bacardi portfolio of brands. She joined Bacardi four years ago as global brand director for Dewar’s Scotch whisky. She was based out of the company’s Gurugram office.

She was serving the liquor firm as its marketing director for India.

OnePlus’s Navnit Nakra joins Pine Labs as Chief Revenue Officer

Navnit Nakra started his career at Citi as manager - risk analytics and credit operations. He rose to the ranks to head the investment banking company as regional lead - e-commerce and looked after the India, Greater China and the Korea region.

Previously, Navnit Nakra led OnePlus as chief executive officer.

Dentsu Creative India hires Aneesh Jaisinghani as senior group executive creative director

Prior to this, Aneesh Jaisinghani was the senior executive creative director at Cheil India, where he successfully led Samsung's mobile business.

Aneesh Jaisinghani will be reporting to Joy Mohanty, chief creative officer – North, Dentsu Creative India.

CXO Movement: Exec movements at Bajaj Auto, Nykaa, Microsoft, DDB Mudra, Bata and more

Get the full picture on people and their moves on the corporate jungle gym in CXO Moves. (From left to right: Anant Maheshwari, Shalini Raghavan, Debabrata Mukherjee and Deepika Warrier)

Executives move in the world of brands and agencies.

Generative AI is good, not excellent yet: Jack Swayne, Global CEO, mSix&Partners

As per Jack Swayne, global chief executive officer, mSix&Partners, "We have to ensure that we are at the forefront of all things media, whether that’s in performance or within digital or increasingly within artificial intelligence and all that goes with that, but also within content."

Jack Swayne, Global CEO of mSix&Partners, a GroupM agency, on the skills media agencies need to hone in today’s times.