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  • Harjot Narang, currently Branch Head of Dentsu Marcom, is promoted to President, Dentsu Marcom

    Dentsu elevates key resources across centres in India

    By A Correspondent

     

    Narayan Devanathan

    Dentsu India has announced a slew of senior elevations across its offices in India. Narayan Devanathan, currently CEO of Dentsu Creative Impact Group and National Planning Director (Dentsu India – North) is promoted with immediate effect to the newly created role of Group Executive & Strategy Officer, Dentsu India. In his group executive role, Narayan will be the chief steward of the Dentsu brand in India, ensuring consistency of vision and output, in line with Dentsu’s global philosophy of Good Innovation. He will also play the role of an integrator with the other members of the Dentsu Aegis Network, both within and outside India, helping leverage the power of the network. In his group strategy role, Narayan will drive a culture of effectiveness that delivers unmatched results for clients. In addition, Narayan will continue to helm the two specialist units of Dentsu Mama Lab (dedicated to connecting brands with mothers meaningfully) and Citizen Dentsu (dedicated to connecting brands with social purpose).

     

    Harjot Narang

    Harjot Narang, currently Branch Head of Dentsu Marcom, is promoted to President, Dentsu Marcom. In recognition of Harjot’s solid contribution to the agency’s turnaround over the last four years, and his continued drive to catapult the agency to be counted among the top three agencies in the Delhi / NCR market, Harjot will be charged with driving the pace of growth at Dentsu Marcom.

     

    Amit Wadhwa

    Amit Wadhwa, currently Branch Head of Dentsu Creative Impact, is promoted to President, Dentsu Creative Impact. Over the last four years, Amit has grown from heading the account management function to overseeing the branch’s operations, and has grown the agency from strength to strength. His charge, with more autonomy, will now be to transform the creative reputation of the agency while achieving never-before scale.

     

    C.P. Arora

    C.P. Arora, currently the Group CFO for Dentsu branded agencies in India will have an expanded role in the Dentsu Aegis Network in India as well. He will now, in addition to his existing responsibilities, take charge as CFO, Dentsu Aegis Network India (North).

     

     

    Ashish Bhasin

    Commenting on the developments, Ashish Bhasin, Chairman & CEO, Dentsu Aegis Network, South Asia, said, “We are now at the forefront of our next phase of growth in our creative agencies and it is important for us to recognize the excellent talent pool that we have within the network and give them more autonomy to better service our clients. Narayan, Harjot, Amit and C.P. are amongst the best that we have in the network and I am sure that, they will drive the Dentsu Creative Agencies to new heights and help Dentsu Aegis Network become the second largest agency group in India by end-2017, overturning for the first time the existing ranking which has historically been in place for over 80 years in India.”

     

     

  • CP Arora has been appointed Group Chief Financial Officer, and Suprotim Day as Chief Films Officer.

    Dentsu India Group makes key senior level appointments

    By A Correspondent

     

    Dentsu India Group on Wednesday appointed Suprotim Day as Chief Films Officer and CP Arora as Group Chief Financial Officer.

     

    Mr Arora (popularly known as CP) takes on the mantle of Group Chief Financial Officer from Nobuki Sakai, who was seconded to Dentsu India early last year. A qualified Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary with nearly twenty years of experience in financial management, Mr Arora joins Dentsu from JWT, Delhi where he was the Vice President and Executive Commercial Director. As Strategic Business Partner with JWT, Delhi at both, the corporate and business unit level, he tracked financial efficiency and profitability, risk management, legal and compliance and overall financial operations for JWT Delhi Office.

     

    As Group Chief Financial Officer, Mr Arora will now be responsible for the financial plans, P&L management, policies, and accounting practices of the Dentsu India Group. He will also lead the accounting, budgeting, fund management, and financing functions of all the Dentsu India Group companies.

     

    In his last assignment, Suprotim Day (known as Tim) was Head of Stink, London’s operations in India. Stink,Londonis amongUK’s leading production houses and he was instrumental in setting up a JV between Stink and QED Films inIndia. The production house serviced agencies such as JWT, McCann Erickson, Ogilvy, Leo Burnett, Lowe, Publicis and Cheil Communications among others.

     

    On these key appointments, Rohit Ohri, Executive Chairman, DentsuIndiasaid: “CP and Suprotim are seasoned professionals. They will partner me in our endeavour to significantly strengthen our service quality delivery to clients.”

     

    With over 25 years of experience in the production and direction of commercials, Mr Day is one of the most sought after and respected Film Heads in the business. He has been in the forefront of producing large scale advertising films for clients like PepsiCo, Airtel, Sony, Nokia, ESPN, Hero Honda, Frito Lays, Samsung, Electrolux, Mitsubishi, Dabur, McDonalds and Nestle to name a few.