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Fulcro appoints Akshat Trivedi as executive creative director
MUMBAI: Fulcro, an integrated digital marketing and communication agency that works with brands to build effective and innovative brand campaigns leveraging the power of creative, technology and data, has appointed Akshat Trivedi as the executive creative director. He will lead the creative team at the venture.
Trivedi brings over a decade of experience in creative communication to the Fulcro team.
He started his creative career at Ogilvy, Mumbai. Where he worked on different brands including Star TV, Cadbury Perk, HUL, Mumbai Indians, Nutrela, and SBI life, to name a few. Akshat also scripted social awareness campaigns at Ogilvy like ‘TB Haarega, DeshJeetega’ and ‘KarodonAansoon Hain LekinKarodon Hum Bhi Hain’ for Star TV’s Pro Bono programme ‘Saath Hain Hum Uttarakhand’ during the unfortunate floods that shook the entire country.
He later functioned as an independent creative consultant before joining The Womb, where he scripted popular TV campaigns for Fogg. Some of these include ‘Kya ChalRaha Hai’; ‘Baaki sab uddjaayega, Fogg RehJaayega’, Fogg ‘Train’TVC. He also wrote the launch campaigns for youthful brands like Asus Zenfone 4 ‘JinkiDuniyaBadiUnki Selfie Badhi’ and Zeelrainwear’s ‘Fiyer’ film.
Trivedi is renowned for writing SaregamaCaravaan’s sensitive campaigns like ‘Aapkepehleypyaarkeliye, aapkimaakekiye’, ‘Iss Diwali Shor YaSangeet’, andJinheshaayadaapkabhikehnahipaaye,unhekahiye‘Thank You’ have been impactful in creating a pure voice for the brand. Carvaan’s Mother campaign not only won people’s hearts but also creative and effectiveness awards.
Apart from this, as a creative consultant to Coverfox, he scripted the campaign ‘Cover Karo, KaamAayega’ that also bagged the South Asia Pacific Gender sensitivity Award at LaadliAwards.
Speaking about his association with Fulcro, Trivedi said, “It is indeed heartening to lead the creative souls at Fulcro, I look forward to sharing my learnings while creating a few of my own, through the young tech brains at Fulcro. So together we can do some awesome work for a new set of brands and take the company to greater heights.”
On this appointment, Fulcro founder and managing director Sabyasachi Mitter said, “As we grow, it is also important to continue to offer our partners the very best output. We’ve long admired the incredible campaigns that Akshat delivers and at a time of increasing opportunity for our long form content, we are excited to welcome him to the team.”
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WPP Media elevates Dipti Gulati to vp, client growth for APMEA
Singapore-based executive to commercialise AI-powered solutions business across the region
SINGAPORE: WPP Media has promoted Dipti Gulati to vice president, client growth, handing her the mandate to lead the commercialisation of its solutions business across APMEA.
Based in Singapore, Gulati steps up after serving as senior director, client growth, where she drove expansion across APAC spanning programmatic, search, social, CTV, DOOH and cross-channel offerings. Now, she is tasked with translating advanced AI, data and technology ecosystems into scalable growth strategies for global brands across FMCG, luxury, F&B and financial services.
“I commercialise the future of media — at scale, across APMEA,” Gulati said, announcing her appointment. She added that she turns advanced data, AI and technology ecosystems into real commercial outcomes, shifting the conversation “from a pure media play to owning business outcomes”.
Her brief is unapologetically future-facing: addressable, accountable and AI-powered media. She will work with cross-market teams across APMEA, bringing together diverse perspectives and cultures to accelerate growth and build what she calls the “future of media”.
Gulati’s rise caps nearly two years at WPP Media and follows a six-month stint as regional director of growth, APAC, at Mindshare, where she led new business development and expanded capabilities for existing clients. Earlier, as global account director for integrated marketing communications on the Unilever business, she drove communications strategy for multi-million dollar beauty and wellbeing brands across Southeast Asia.
Before that, Gulati spent close to two years as associate director at Warner Bros. Discovery in Singapore. She also served as director, strategic partnerships and market development at TrustSphere, leading go-to-market and growth initiatives across Asia and evangelising relationship analytics to C-level executives. TrustSphere, credited by industry and Harvard Business School case studies as a pioneer in relationship analytics, became a springboard for her deeper engagement with data-driven growth.
Her board and evangelist roles at the Asia Cloud Computing Association and its Asia Analytics Alliance further sharpened her regional policy and analytics credentials. Earlier chapters include marketing consultancy at Blockchain Foundry and a seven-year run at Warner Bros. Discovery in India, where she led ad-sales and business development for HBO and WB across north and east India, delivering record billings. She began her career at Diligent Media Corporation Ltd and Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd..
From ad-sales floors in Delhi and Mumbai to boardrooms in Singapore, Gulati’s arc mirrors the industry’s own shift — from selling spots and slots to engineering outcomes through data and AI. At WPP Media, the brief is clear: scale smarter, move faster and turn algorithms into advantage.
