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Enormous Brands’ Rahul Tekwani launches Branding Edge Strategic Communication
NEW DELHI: Former Enormous Brands strategist Rahul Tekwani has launched his own venture, Branding Edge Strategic Communications and Advisory. The agency will focus on developing a brand and reputation programme to achieve business goals, build awareness and credibility, and enhance the long-term enterprise value of clients.
On the brand side, the company will be providing 360-degree services which include branding, design, digital strategy and research, and data-driven storytelling and influencer engagement strategies.
Branding Edge Strategic Communications will also offer media strategy, customised investor relation program, capital market and transactional advisory, crisis management services, and social communication public sector units as part of its reputation management advisory.
Branding Edge managing partner Rahul Tekwani said, “I felt this was the best time to enter the communication strategy business. The brand and the reputation agencies have not found it easy to adapt to the changing landscape of media and the client business. We feel the core focus of the marketing strategy today needs to be primarily business-driven.”
He further added, “I personally feel data will take the pole position in branding. The recent study by market research companies also showcased how 83 per cent of data-driven companies in India reported gaining critical business advantages during the pandemic. Our core focus remains to unlock the full potential of clients’ data with our strategy-based approach and give our client edge in the domestic and international markets.”
The team of Branding Edge comprises strategists, senior creatives, investment bankers, corporate lawyers with more than two and a half decades of transactional experience.
The company has offices in Mumbai and Delhi and will set foot in the south and east market by next financial year.
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Publicis Brazil’s creative chief Mauro Ramalho lands the jury chair at Abby Awards 2026
Mauro Ramalho brings 25 years of global advertising firepower to the new creative commerce, use of data and B2B category at Goafest
GOA: The Abby Awards 2026, powered by The One Club and The One Show, has appointed Mauro Ramalho, chief creative officer of Publicis Brazil, as jury chair for its newly launched creative commerce, use of data and B2B category. The announcement, made on 18 March, signals the awards’ intent to bring serious international muscle to a category that sits squarely at the intersection of creativity and commercial performance.
Ramalho is not a name that needs much introduction in global advertising circles. Over 25 years spanning three countries, he has worked at some of the industry’s most creatively restless addresses. At AKQA in San Francisco, he worked across McDonald’s, Nike, Fox, Target, Kraft Foods and GAP, and helped lead “The Lost Ring” for McDonald’s, one of the first alternate reality campaigns and among the most awarded projects of its era. He later moved to Organic in Toronto, bridging the Detroit and Toronto offices on Dodge, Jeep and Chrysler, before spending over a decade building CUBOCC into one of Brazil’s most iconic and innovative independent agencies, which subsequently joined the IPG network.
A stint at FCB followed, where Ramalho led integrated work bridging online and offline, before he joined R/GA São Paulo as vice-president and executive creative director, stitching together the São Paulo office with New York, London, Portland and California on global clients including Verizon, Google, Meta, Samsung, American Express and Heineken. He now heads Publicis Brazil as its chief creative officer.
His trophy cabinet includes Clios, Effies, TikTok awards and MMA Smarties, and he has served on juries at the Andys, TikTok and the Lisbon Awards.
The Abby Awards 2026 is scheduled to take place at Goafest 2026 on 20, 21 and 22 May in Goa.
For Indian advertising, landing a jury chair of Ramalho’s calibre for a category built around data-driven creativity and commerce is a statement of ambition. Goafest just raised its own bar.
