Ogilvy India Strengthens Core Creative Team With New Hires
Ogilvy India has announced a slew of new appointments. Ajay Gahlaut has been appointed Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy North and Deputy CCO, Ogilvy India, Sukesh Nayak, Kainaz Karmakar and Harshad Rajadhyaksha have been roped in as Chief Creative Officers, Ogilvy West while Mahesh Gharat and Azazul Haque have been appointed Chief Creative Officers, Ogilvy South.
All CCOs will report directly to Sonal Dabral, Group CCO and Vice Chairman Ogilvy India. They will lead the newly integrated creative departments across Ogilvy’s offices in India, bringing advertising and digital creatives together into cohesive, integrated units to serve clients better.
Commenting on the new appointments, Piyush Pandey, Executive Chairman and Creative Director, Ogilvy South Asia said, “Every Ogilvy office in India has fantastic young creative leaders at the helm. Their work speaks for them. Ajay, Sukesh, Kainaz, Harshad, Azaz and Mahesh will lead the new integrated creative culture in each of our offices with positivity and freshness. They have the maturity and sensitivity to partner the senior talent we have in each office and lead them as a team. New energy is essential to keep creative cultures vibrant and the newly integrated mandate will lead to deeper integrated, better work across our clients.
Ogilvy India has tasked the new hires to pull Ogilvy's creative strengths, across media, together to deliver new age, industry leading, integrated work.
“Ajay, Sukesh, Harshad, Kainaz, Azaz and Mahesh represent the best of Ogilvy creative leadership. The work each of them has championed over the last few years is already new age, integrated work for our biggest clients, and is clearly head and shoulders above the best in our industry. Ogilvy is the epitome of divine discontent, constantly striving to produce better, more creative and more effective work for our clients. Putting these creative leaders in integrated creative leadership roles is both recognition of their talent and a reflection of our commitment to driving creative excellence across every consumer touchpoint”, said Kunal Jeswani, CEO, Ogilvy India.
