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Apollo Tyres’ Vikram Garga steps down

Vikram Garga started his career at Dabur India, and went on to work across Johnson & Johnson, Britannia Industries, Colgate-Palmolive, Castrol, Mahindra and Mahindra Limited.

Vikram Garga led Apollo Tyres as group head – marketing /group chief marketing officer – Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa.

Nokia’s Amy Hanlon-Rodemich quits

Amy Hanlon Rodemich began her career at Inktomi Corporation and went on to work across CAT Technology, Technology Credit Union, VMware and Yahoo.

Amy Hanlon-Rodemich served as the chief people officer at the Finnish telecom company. Lorna Gibb, who is the vice president, Labor & Employment, will assume the role of interim chief people officer.

Tata International elevates Rajeev Singhal as managing director

Rajeev Singhal will take over the new role on April 1st, 2024, from Anand Sen, who superannuated on 31st March 2024.

Prior to this, Rajeev Singhal was executive director and chief operating officer (COO) at Tata International.

Sheyphali Sharan takes charge as Principal Director General, Press Information Bureau

Upon assumption of charge, Sharan was welcomed by senior officials of Press Information Bureau.

Sharan has today assumed charge upon superannuation of Manish Desai yesterday. She is an officer of the 1990 batch of Indian Information Service.

CXO Moves: Exec appointments across Cleartrip, Maruti Suzuki, and Noise among others

Get the full picture on people and their moves on the corporate jungle gym in CXO Moves. (From left to right: Tavleen Bhatia, Gaurav Mehta, Sathish Raghunathan)

Executive moves in the world of brands and agencies.

Cleartrip appoints Tavleen Bhatia as Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer

Bhatia has a proven track record of driving growth and innovation in e-commerce.

Bhatia joins Cleartrip from Flipkart, where she was the head of growth, marketing and monetization for Flipkart Mobiles.

News18 Network appoints Amitosh Pal to lead business in Eastern markets

Amitosh Pal is an experienced media sales professional with a career spanning 25 years, predominantly with ABP Network for the last 19 years. He led sales for ABP Ananda as part of his last stint and also held positions at Zee Network, Siti Cable Network, and Tata Infomedia in the past.

As part of his new role, Amitosh Pal will lead effort to establish News18 Bangla as the preferred choice for advertisers and agencies along with leading sales efforts for News18 Assam and News18 Odiya. He will also lead the monetisation initiative for News18 India for the east markets and scale revenue for News18 India from the region.

Sanjiv Mehta forms joint venture with L Catterton to expand business in India

Mehta will be involved with LCA and the firm’s other global fund platforms more broadly, where his skills and insights can be leveraged.

Mehta was most recently President of Unilever South Asia as well as Chairman/CEO and Managing Director of Hindustan Unilever Limited (“HUL”) from 2013 to June 2023.

Publicis India appoints Aman Mannan and Shitu Patil as joint NCDs

In their new roles, Aman Mannan and Shitu Patil will lead the creative vision for all brands at Publicis India, and report to managing director, Oindrila Roy.

In their new roles, Aman Mannan and Shitu Patil will will leverage their expertise to lead the agency’s creative vision across all offices in India.

Maruti appoints Partho Banerjee as head of sales and marketing; Shashank Srivastava transferred to ‘Member Executive Committee’

Maruti Suzuki made changes in the Senior Management Personnel (SMP) of the Company as approved by the board of directors in its meeting held on March 27.The automaker has changed its management committee with the transfer of CV Raman, Shashank Srivastava, Tarun Aggarwal, Sandeep Raina, and 7 other members. (From left to right: Partho Banerjee and Shashank Srivastava)

Maruti Suzuki overhauls executive team in a strategic move. Partho Banerjee becomes Head – Marketing and Sales. Shashank Srivastava is transferred from the position of Head – Marketing and Sales to ‘Member Executive Committee’