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  • Current leaders Pallav Jain and Sarfaraz Khimani to focus on Publicis Groupe Central Initiatives

    Lalatendu Das is now CEO Performics

    By Our Staff

     

    Lalatendu Das
    Lalatendu Das

    Publicis Groupe India has announced the appointment of former McKinsey Partner Lalatendu Das as CEO of Performics India. Current bosses Pallav Jain and Sarfaraz Khimani will focus on Publicis Groupe Central Initiatives.

     

    Das joins Publicis as CEO of Performics India, after almost 10 years with McKinsey, where he was Partner, Core founding member of McKinsey Digital Labs in Asia Pacific and co-lead McKinsey Digital and Technology practice, Asia Pacific. He is an engineer and an Executive Postgraduate in Business Management from IIM Ahmedabad.

     

    Anupriya Acharya
    Anupriya Acharya

    Said Anupriya Acharya, CEO, Publicis Groupe South Asia: “Pallav & Sarfaraz have continually paved the way for Performics taking the agency to great heights of success. We are fortunate to have had their leadership and now look forward to leveraging them on key Groupe priorities. Lalatendu is an accomplished leader with an impeccable track-record of building client businesses and leading digital transformation at scale. He was the clear choice as the next leader of Performics, which is a front-runner in performance and digital solutions today. In his previous stints, Lalatendu built strong, well-insulated teams of technologists, software specialists, engineers and pivoted new products and experiences. His expertise and energy will help us further in providing maximum value to our clients.”

     

    PallavJain
    Pallav Jain
    Sarfaraz Khimani

    Added Jain and Khimani: “This has been an incredible journey for both of us, right from being founders of Convonix in 2003 to being leaders of Performics. It has been hugely gratifying to witness the growth of the organization from a bedroom to the 700+ people behemoth it is today. We are most proud of the ecosystem we were able to build that allowed young talent to thrive and make careers both within Performics and outside. Performics has had an extraordinary run and 2021 was our best ever year from a business perspective. With the momentum in the business and the stable leadership team in place, there is no better time for us to hand over the keys of Performics to a new leadership while we recalibrate our compass and see what to create next both within Publicis Groupe and outside. We will always be grateful to the support we have received from the Groupe both in India and globally, our clients who gave us an opportunity to grow their business and most of all our colleagues who trusted us with their careers. We are very excited with Lalatendu’s appointment and will always be the biggest cheerleaders for Performics.”

     

    Said Das: “I am honoured to be appointed as the CEO for Performics India and I thank Publicis Groupe for the opportunity. Publicis Groupe is an exceptional company, with the right structures, investments and focus on future-facing areas and this is clearly visible through tangible, exponential growth for its clients in the marketplace. I look forward to leading Performics at an incredibly exciting time, opening new growth opportunities and partnerships, pivoting strong products, strategic initiatives and services. This is a new chapter and I hope to drive further momentum and digital acceleration for Performics’ strong roster of brands, building further on market leadership.

     

  • The business was won in a tightly-contested multi-agency pitch

    Mobile Premier League awards digital mandate to Performics India

    By A Correspondent

     

    Performics India has won the digital media and analytics mandate for mobile e-sports platform Mobile Premier League (MPL). The business was won in a tightly-contested multi-agency pitch which saw participation from leading agencies. This win, notes a communique, along with other big recent wins like Cred, Udaan and the commerce mandate for ITC’s foods division, further strengthens Performics India’s Bengaluru office which was set-up in 2019.

     

    Said Rajat Gupta, Vice-President of Marketing at MPL: “MPL has a unique product offering in the fast evolving Mobile Gaming space. And we are in a phase of rapid expansion and growth. We were looking for a partner who would appreciate the complexity and scale of our business and would accordingly customize everything for us. In Performics India we found that partner and are looking forward to doing category leading work with them.”

     

     

    Added Suchit Sikaria, Managing Partner, Performics India: “We are thrilled and honoured to be appointed as MPL’s digital partner. With our expertise across Media, Tech & Analytics we are confident of helping MPL realize all its business goals. Along with running their digital media campaigns, setting up the Google Marketing Platform stack for MPL is extremely exciting for us.”

     

     

  • The business was won in a tightly-contested multi-agency pitch

    Performics India wins the digital duties of GoAir

    By A Correspondent

     

    Performics India has won the integrated digital media mandate for GoAir. The mandate includes performance media, SEO and analytics.

     

    Said Shabnam Syed, Vice-President & Head of Marketing and E-Commerce at GoAir: “We were looking for a partner who would understand the complexity and challenges of our business and would accordingly customize processes. We are in a phase of rapid expansion and growth hence needed our partner to have varied skillsets and be extremely agile to deliver real business impact. Our partnership with Performics India is aimed at driving efficiencies across paid as well as owned digital media and we look forward to growing together to new heights while driving effective business outcomes.”

     

    Added Suchit Sikaria, Managing Partner, Performics India: “We are thrilled to be appointed as GoAir’s digital partner. It is a very prestigious win for us. We are confident that our data-driven approach and integrated expertise across Paid Media, SEO & Analytics will add immediate value to the account. We aim to bring in greater automation to leverage actual business trends & insights for near real-time decision making, campaign management and personalization.”

     

     

  • Mandate to bring technology and creative capabilities to strengthen Livspace’s footprint

    Livspace awards its digital mandate to Performics

    By A Correspondent

     

    Home interiors brand Livspace has appointed Performics  to handle its digital duties. Thee mandate is to bring in cross platform data analysis and digital capabilities for Livspace; merge it with creative thinking to result in innovative performance marketing solutions across various online channels for the brand.

     

    On the appointment of the agency, Kartikeya Bhandari, Chief Marketing Officer at Livspace said – “Livspace is the beginning of a new paradigm in home interiors in the country. Our technology and design capabilities seek to transform user journey from being fragmented offline to seamless and experiential online. At this pivotal juncture of exponential growth, we needed to bring on board best in class players who can complement our vision.

     

    In Performics, we found a passionate team with a thorough understanding of not only digital platforms but also curiosity to deep dive into our business challenges and connect them with performance marketing strategies. We believe this partnership will bring in a thinking team capable of innovations and together we hope to positively impact the ‘design to installation’ journey for our Livspace consumers”.

     

    Announcing the win, Pallav Jain, Co-CEO, Performics India said:

    “We are excited to work with Livspace, India and South East Asia’s leading home interior design and renovation platform, a future-facing, consumer-centric brand. Performics continues to redefine the digital space, through superior play in performance, search, data & analytics and we look forward to driving significant business outcomes for Livspace.”

     

     

  • Publicis Media has also announced that Tanmay Mohanty will hold additional charge as Head of Global Partnerships role for India

    Publicis Media aligns Convonix & Resultrix under Performics. Tanmay Mohanty to take on additional role

    By A Correspondent

     

     

     

    Pallav Jain
    Sarfaraz Khimani

    Publicis Media India today announced the alignment of Convonix and Resultrix under the Performics brand. This, notes a communique, firmly establishes Performics as the largest performance marketing offering in the country by far and is in line with Publicis Media’s market-leading presence and ambitions in the areas of digital marketing, data, tech and analytics.

     

    Pallav Jain and Sarfaraz Khimani will serve as Co-CEOs of Performics India and will report into the Publicis Media India CEO Anupriya Acharya.

     

    Tanmay Mohanty

    Meanwhile, Publicis Media has also announced a new Head of Global Partnerships role for India. Tanmay Mohanty will take over this new role in addition to his current role of Zenith India Group CEO. In this role, Mohanty will bring in a “more strategic and holistic approach to global partnerships in India and ensure greater Groupe and client connectivity with partners such as Google, Facebook, Adobe and Microsoft amongst others”.

     

    Anupriya Acharya

    Said Anupriya Acharya, Publicis Media India CEO: “We stand at an important growth juncture and it is imperative that we put accelerated focus on next-frontier areas in marketing communications like machine learning, artificial intelligence, consulting, automation and the like.  The current changes reflect our endeavor to create a compelling offering with an effective structure that supports evolving client needs. Pallav and Sarfaraz have driven spectacular growth for Convonix from an entrepreneurial start-up to a scaled organisation, across India and in multiple market mandates including US, UK and Asia-Pacific and bring in expertise on innovative solutions around talent acquisition and talent management at scale. It makes them the ideal choice for leading Performics India. Tanmay Mohanty is a proven leader with a successful track-record of accomplishment of leading in the digital first space and then bringing that thinking to the larger integrated media space. He has brought in value and substance to every client conversation across Zenith and Resultrix. I am sure with his strong product focus and client need-gap understanding, he will shape our global partnerships in India well.”