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Lupin appoints Shweta Munjal as VP – communications
NEW DELHI: Global pharmaceutical brand Lupin has appointed Shweta Munjal as vice president and head of corporate communications.
Prior to this, she was with Nayara Energy as VP – brand and corporate communications. She worked at the crude oil company for close to two years. She also had a five-year-long stint at Thomson Reuters, where she served as communications head for the Asia Pacific region.
In her career spanning nearly two decades, Munjal has been associated with top-rung corporations like Cadbury India, Yahoo!, NASSCOM and Teso, to name a few.
With vast experience in the fields of media, marketing and corporate communications, she has held leadership roles in almost every facet of the industry – from thought leadership, PR, CSR, crisis and issue management, media relations, rebranding etc.
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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.
