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Zaggle appoints Nilesh Dadpe and Rajesh Tummalaganti to senior roles
MUMBAI: Zaggle Prepaid Ocean Services Limited, India’s leading spend management and SaaS-led fintech player, has added fresh muscle to its senior leadership bench with two key appointments aimed at fuelling growth and tightening governance.
The company has named Nilesh Dadpe as executive vice president for cross sell and Rajesh Tummalaganti as deputy chief financial officer, signalling a clear intent to grow smarter while staying financially disciplined.
Dadpe steps in with a brief that is all about making more of what Zaggle already has. He will focus on deepening relationships with existing corporate clients and encouraging wider adoption of Zaggle’s solutions. With years of experience in enterprise sales and solution-led growth, his role is expected to boost customer lifetime value and turn long-term partnerships into steady, profitable momentum.
On the numbers side, Tummalaganti takes charge as deputy CFO, bringing a sharp eye for financial controls, compliance and strategic planning. His mandate includes strengthening reporting frameworks and supporting capital decisions, ensuring Zaggle’s finances remain as agile as its technology as the company grows its listed fintech footprint.
Zaggle founder and executive chairman Raj P. Narayanam, said the appointments reflect the company’s focus on balance. Growth, he noted, must go hand in hand with trust and transparency. While Dadpe adds firepower to the revenue engine, Tummalaganti reinforces the guardrails that keep the business steady.
Together, the expanded leadership team is expected to play a pivotal role in accelerating portfolio expansion, improving operational efficiency and delivering sustained value to customers, partners and shareholders. In short, Zaggle is tuning both its accelerator and its steering wheel as it heads into its next phase of growth.
Brands
Faber-Castell India appoints Sunaina Haldar as director – marketing
With stints at Tata, SleepyCat and ADF Foods under her belt, Haldar is primed to redraw Faber-Castell’s brand story
MUMBAI: Faber-Castell India has poached Sunaina Haldar from ADF Foods, appointing her director – marketing as the German stationery brand looks to muscle up in a category that is rapidly reinventing itself around creativity and self-expression.
Haldar hit the ground running. “My first couple of weeks have been incredibly energising, understanding consumers, visiting markets, engaging with retailers and immersing myself into the world of Faber-Castell Group,” she said.
She arrives with considerable firepower. At ADF Foods, Haldar ran marketing across India and international markets for a portfolio spanning Ashoka, Aeroplane, Camel and ADF Soul. Before that, she was vice-president – marketing at direct-to-consumer mattress brand SleepyCat, where she helmed brand, content and performance marketing. Her résumé also includes a stint leading marketing, new product development and CRM for Tata SmartFoodz at Tata Consumer Products, no small proving ground.
Between corporate roles, Haldar also operated as a fractional CMO for early-stage startups, building marketing strategy and operational structures from scratch, a signal that she knows how to move fast with limited resources.
With 18 years straddling FMCG, D2C and the startup world, Haldar now takes the reins at a brand that has long owned the classroom but is clearly hungry for the living room. In a stationery market where the pencil has become a lifestyle statement, Faber-Castell has picked someone who knows exactly how to sell that story.
