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  • The ZenithOptimedia Group announced the appointment of Saswati Sinha as Head Of Talent and Human Resources, India

    ZO appoints Saswati Sinha as talent head

    By A Correspondent

     

    Saswati Sinha

    ZenithOptimedia Group announced the appointment of Saswati Sinha as Head Of Talent and Human Resources, India. Based out of Gurgaon, she will be taking charge of ZenithOptimedia Group’s pan-India operations including ZenithOptimedia,Performics, Resultirx, Newcast and Ninah.

     

    Said Anupriya Acharya, Group CEO ZenithOptimedia India, on the appointment: “Given our growth journey, diverse offerings that need both specialists and integrators and the fast evolving media market with shortage of skilled talent, we needed to accelerate our talent and training agenda. Saswati’sexperience in different industries and geographies spanning Media, Advertising and ITeS and a strong understanding of managing growth and training requirements in the new world made her the perfect choice for this role. Am glad she has chosen to join us.”

     

    Anupriya Acharya

    Added Ms Sinha:  “I am very excited to join ZenithOptimedia as I believe talent intensive industries are places where Human Resource function has a critical role to play. ZenithOptimedia believes in people and building a strong culture of values, performance and realize the importance of nurturing talent. I am looking forward to a positive journey”

     

    Ms Sinha joins ZenithOptimedia Group with more than 16 years of experience in the field of human resource development and has worked with companies like JWT, Evalueserve and Cyber Media. Her last assignment was at Cheil Worldwide SW Asia where she was the Head of Human Resources for the region and as part of the major growth journey she on-boarded teams of diverse skills spanning from Retail, Digital, Media, Activation, Mainline and developed talent programs across the region.

     

  • The agency has brought in Ravi Narain as Executive Creative Director, Sanjeev Hajela as Sr Vice President, BTL -South West Asian Markets, Vikram Bhardwaj as DGM-Interactive and Saswati Sinha as Head-Human Resources

    New appointments at Cheil SW Asia

    By A Correspondent

     

    Cheil Worldwide SW Asia is on a talent acquisition spree and has announced a series of new appointments across BTL, Creative, Digital, and HR.

     

    Ravi Narain
    Alok Agrawal
    Sanjeev Hajela
    Vikram Bhardwaj
    Saswati Sinha

    The agency has brought in Ravi Narain as Executive Creative Director, Sanjeev Hajela as Sr Vice President, BTL -South West Asian Markets, Vikram Bhardwaj as DGM-Interactive and Saswati Sinha as Head-Human Resources.

     

    Mr Narain joins from Emaar MGF where he was Vice President – Marketing & Design, while Mr Hajela is from DDB Mudra Group where he was President – Retail and Wayfinding business; Mr Bhardwaj moves from ThoughtBuzz India where he was Country Head and Ms Sinha from Evalueserve.

     

    Speaking on the appointments, Alok Agrawal, COO, Cheil WW, SW Asia said: “Cheil India is expanding at a rapid pace and as a fully integrated, one solution agency we offer a great opportunity for growth of talent. With Ravi, Sanjeev, Vikram on board we see more client successes and acquisitions coming our way. Saswati’s joining us also demonstrates the power of brand Cheil even for Human Resource management”.

     

    Mr Narain joins from Emaar MGF where he was Vice President – Marketing & Design. Mr Narain gained tremendous marketing and communications insights during his 5-year experience with Emaar MGF.  He believes that selling real estate after having spent over 17 years of experience in Marketing and Advertising was an immensely growing experience that added phenomenal dimension to his thinking.  As said by an industry veteran, life has come full circle for Narain.

     

    Mr Hajela, a marketing professional with almost two and a half decades of experience joins from from DDB Mudra Group where he was President – Retail and Wayfinding business.  A career that commenced with ITC (tobacco Division) has led Mr Hajela places. Over the years he has had the rare combination of having seen the industry as a client and having learnt materials and their impact on Trade marketing. In the last eleven years he worked in various positions including the Vice president and head of national Sales.

     

    Mr Bhardwaj moves to Cheil from ThoughtBuzz India, a premier Social Media Brand Monitoring Company where he was Country Head. Of late Mr Bhardwaj’s focus has been on making significant contributions to Online Marketing and offering strategies on – Social Media Management & Planning. As a strategic thinker, he enjoys wrapping his head around new media and future trends and opportunities.

     

    Ms Sinha, a veteran Human Resource professional, joins Cheil from Evalueserve. She started her career in the manufacturing industry and moved on to Advertising in 2006 as HR Director to Delhi JWT. Advertising gave the opportunity to hone her skills in managing people without letting go the bottom line. From 2008 till 2010 she went into a consultant mode and worked with different industries. However the lure of advertising proved stronger and she has returned this time albeit at Cheil.