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BrandHub to represent Brand Finance in Singapore
MUMBAI: BrandHub has been appointed as the exclusive representative of Brand Finance in Singapore.
BrandHub founder and principal consultant Shauna Li Roolvink will become a Director of Brand Strategy for Brand Finance in Asia. She will lead the team in providing advisory services on brand and intellectual asset valuation projects.
Brand Finance CEO David Haigh commented, “Shauna’s appointment marks a new step. The integrated service offering of Brand Strategy, Design and Brand Valuation provides our clients in the region with a more holistic solution to their strategic brand management requirements.”
Roolvink Shauna has over 15 years of experience in brand and management consulting. She was formerly the Associate Director of Brand Strategy at Interbrand, and a consultant at AT Kearney
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Sameer Nair shares heartfelt note as he exits Applause Entertainment
After nine years building the streamer’s content engine, one of India’s best-known TV men is moving on
MUMBAI: Sameer Nair is out. The chief executive of Applause Entertainment, the content studio backed by Kumar Mangalam Birla’s media empire, has announced his departure after nearly nine years at the helm, closing the chapter on one of Indian entertainment’s more quietly consequential careers.
Nair, who built Applause from the ground up in its current avatar, oversaw a slate that spanned Indian originals and international adaptations, threading together a hub-and-spoke business model that partnered with streaming platforms, broadcasters and production houses alike. The results were uneven, as they always are in content, but the ambition was not.
In a post on LinkedIn, Nair was generous to his outgoing patron. He thanked Birla for being an “inspirational boss and a great patron of the arts,” and signed off with a cheerful “Au Revoir” and a promise to remain Applause’s biggest cheerleader. Whether that sentiment survives the next chapter remains to be seen.
No successor has been named. Applause Entertainment did not immediately comment.
Nair built the machine. Now someone else has to run it — and in a streaming market that is simultaneously consolidating and convulsing, that is no small ask.
