After Mukesh Ambani resigned as a director of the firm on June 27, Reliance Jio announced on Tuesday that its board has authorised the nomination of Akash Ambani as chairman of the board. In addition, the board accepted Pankaj Mohan Pawar’s appointment as managing director of Reliance Jio for five years during its meeting today.…
Digital Cable TV and Broadband Service provider GTPL Hathway Limited (GTPL) has announced the launch of GIVA – ‘GTPL Interactive Virtual Assistant’ using the WhatsApp platform for its current as well as potential customers. GTPL is the first MSO (Multi-System Operator) in the industry to come up with an interactive WhatsApp-based virtual assistant. GIVA will…
CSS Corp, a global customer experience and technology consulting services provider has announced that its board has unanimously chosen Sunil Mittal as the organization’s next Chief Executive Officer. Sunil Mittal, currently the Chief Operating Officer at CSS Corp will take up the new role effective July 1st succeeding Manish Tandon who is stepping down after engineering a successful turnaround and generating tremendous…
GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, has announced that Krystal Olivieri has been elevated to the role of global Chief Innovation Officer. This newly created role advances GroupM’s directive to better leverage scale to innovate, differentiate and create sustained value for clients through homegrown products and offerings. Through the lens of the Responsible Investment Framework, Olivieri…
Mindtree, a leading digital transformation and technology services company, has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the NxT Digital Business, the cloud-based IoT and AI platform for Industry 4.0 of L&T Group. The NxT Digital Business was founded as a startup with broad digital capabilities within L&T. It has played an instrumental…
Advertising giant Ogilvy has announced that Liz Taylor has been named Global Chief Creative Officer. For over two decades, Taylor has been recognized as one of the industry’s most progressive creative leaders and was recently recognized as the top-ranked woman on The Drum’s global ranking of the most-awarded Chief Creative Officers. She will be responsible…
Singapore-based Martech startup, Affable.ai has raised USD 2 million from Prime Venture Partners, Decacorn Capital & SGInnovate. Affable’s AI-driven, Self-service SaaS platform helps brands and agencies run high impact influencer marketing campaigns. Affable brings transparency and analytics to influencer marketing and is being used by over 45 top brands and agencies including Huawei, Wipro, Pomelo, Fresh, Omnicom,…
Former Executive Director – Foods and Refreshments at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), Sudhir Sitapathi has been named as the Managing Director & CEO of Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL). Sitapathi’s appointment will be effective from October 18, 2021, while Nisaba Godrej, who is currently the Chairperson and Managing Director, will serve as Executive Chairperson of GCPL.…
Mogae Media, the company owned by ad-man Sandeep Goyal has reportedly acquired one of the country’s oldest advertising agencies, Rediffusion and its sister entity, Everest Advertising. Rediffusion will now be integrated into the Mogae Media group, with founding partner Arun Nanda remaining as Chairman and Goyal taking over as the company’s Managing Director. Arun Nanda…
Former Wipro Head of Global Marketing, Cloud Business Services Shatrughan Yadav, has reportedly been roped by HCL Technologies as DGM Marketing, Lifesciences & Healthcare Business. Yadav has over 15 years of experience spanning the TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) industry. He joined Wipro in 2006 and held various leadership roles such as Global Head – Strategy, Marketing…