Kickstart your week with news of people moves from Ogilvy Indonesia, Grab, Kantar, SevenRooms and more, in our weekly roundup.
Ogilvy Indonesia has hired MullenLowe Lintas Group’s Satish Ramanathan as managing director. With over two decades of experience across India and Singapore, and most recently as MullenLowe’s executive director in Mumbai, Ramanathan will be responsible for steering the momentum of Ogilvy’s Digital Experience vertical in Indonesia.
Superapp Grab which operates in eight countries and 480 cities has promoted Philipp Kandal to the role of chief product officer effective February 1, 2023. Kandal joined the company in 2019 to lead the engineering and data science teams for Geo, the vertical that powers location-based intelligence and services. In the new role Kandal will oversee product, design and analytics teams and lead the product vision and strategy for Grab.
Kantar is strengthening its leadership in Singapore and Malaysia with two key appointments: Jane Ng and Paromeeta Mathur Banerjee are both appointed as general manager, Insights. Ng will lead the team in Singapore, while Banerjee will steer the Malaysia team. Ng brings over 18 years’ experience in the insights industry in Kantar Singapore and the Philippines, as well as with brands like Coca-Cola Company. She will also develop brand, communication plans and strategic business plans for the company. Meanwhile, Banerjee will leverage her 20 years of experience in the insights industry across India and Malaysia. Prior to the new role, she was chief client officer for Kantar’s Insights division in Malaysia.
Independent marketing agency Alpha Digital has appointed Al Jury as the CEO, returning to the agency after helping its launch in 2011. Jury’s most recent position was chief HR officer at University of Queensland for the past five years. Prior he was vice president in the U.K., USA and Norway at energy company Equinor.
Guest experience and retention platform for hospitality businesses SevenRooms has hired Josh Todd as its chief marketing officer. Todd has jumped from wellness business Mindbody where he served as CMO from 2017 to 2022 helping grow the revenue by 117%. In the new role at SevenRooms, Todd will oversee planning, development and execution of the platform’s marketing efforts.
