Tag: CXO Moves

Meta Layoffs: Dilpreeta Vasudeva joins growing list of execs laid off

Dilpreeta Vasudeva is armed with an experience of two decades and started her career at Radisson in the client relations department. From there, she moved to Tech Mahindra and took up the role of assistant manager, global leadership cadre. She joined Times Internet as product manager, communities, and then at Microsoft, she was the senior manager marketing. (Image source: LinkedIn)

Dilpreeta Vasudeva is one of the executives from the senior leadership team who has been affected by Meta’s layoffs in India. The layoffs are part of a restructuring effort to streamline operations and adapt to changing market conditions.

Publicis Commerce India onboards Anshul Garg as managing partner and head

Anshul Garg comes with over 16 years of consulting and industry experience across sectors including consumer goods, retail, industrial goods and energy. His expertise spans many dimensions such as digital commerce and D2C business setup, growth strategy blueprint, sales and marketing transformation, go-to-market strategy and execution, loyalty programmes, commercial excellence, and more.

Prior to this, he worked at advisory firm Ernst & Young. In his new role, Anshul Garg will advance the Groupe’s commerce offerings still further, drive both strategy, implementation and connect data, technology, and brand experience with commerce for optimum results.

PepsiCo promotes Tarun Bhagat as CMO, India and South Asia, beverages

Tarun Bhagat has held roles in various capacities and has held the roles of vice president -marketing, associate director where he looked into Quaker India, and then Lay’s. As a brand director, he concentrated on Pepsi, Gatorade and Aquafina. (Image source: LinkedIn)

Previously, Tarun Bhagat was the senior director – marketing – Mountain Dew, 7Up and Mirinda at PepsiCo.

Future Generali India Life Insurance Company Ltd appoints Geetanjali Chugh Kothari as Chief Marketing Officer

In her new role as the CMO, Chugh will report to Bruce de Broize, Managing Director & CEO, of Future Generali India Life Insurance, and will be based in the head office in Mumbai.

Prior to joining Future Generali, Chugh held the position of Head of Marketing and Corporate Communication at Bharti AXA Life Insurance. Her prior experience includes working for Future Group, HT Media, and Mudra Max.

Cheil India hires Amit Nandwani as national creative director

Amit Nandwani also wears the hat of a director, having directed over 20 TV commercials for popular brands like Amazon, Ola, Car Dekho, and ACKO Insurance.

Amit Nandwani, who has an experience of over two decades, joins from Leo Burnett Delhi, and at Cheil India, he will lead the agency’s creative output on the new businesses.

BARC appoints Dolly Jha as chief of product and research

Dolly Jha comes with a rich experience across consumer research, audience measurement, media analytics, ROI measurement and innovation research.

Prior to joining BARC India, Dolly Jha has been associated with Nielsen for 13 years where she has held multiple leadership roles. Her last role was as the managing director for Nielsen Media – India.

Wunderman Thompson’s Tarun Rai retires

After leading the merger between Wunderman and JWT, Tarun Rai was appointed chairman and Group CEO for South Asia and began to help steer the organisation through the pandemic. He was then appointed executive director of strategic initiatives across the APAC region in 2022.

Tarun Rai, executive director of strategic initiatives across the APAC region, will be retiring after three-decades in the advertising industry.