Brands
Cipla hands over media duties to OMD Mudramax
MUMBAI: Following a multi-agency pitch, OMD Mudramax has bagged the media duties of Cipla Health.
OMD Mudramax will be partnering with the brands under Cipla Health in its consumer engagement initiatives across mass media / digital and below-the-line promotional efforts. The account will be managed out of the agency’s Mumbai office.
Cipla Health is working towards fulfilling its vision of becoming the most preferred consumer healthcare company in India. In its quest to create innovative health solutions for consumers, it has launched many consumer-need-centric healthcare products.
Cipla Health CMO Himava Nath says, “We at CHL aspire to have exponential growth in the consumer healthcare OTC segment in the coming years. We needed an agile agency partner who can work closely with our brand marketing team to facilitate much greater consumer traction for our brands. We feel that OMD MudraMax can help us achieve this goal.”
OMD MudraMax president Sathyamurthy Namakkal adds, “This is a prestigious win for us and we love to work with clients who embrace agencies as their partners. Working with good brands and a great set of people at CHL, we look forward to creating impactful business solutions through interesting customer initiatives”.
Brands
Canva appoints MangoAI co-founder Nirmal Govind as chief algorithms officer
Acquires MangoAI to power performance driven AI at scale
MUMBAI: Design platform Canva has appointed Nirmal Govind as its first chief algorithms officer following the acquisition of AI powered creative optimisation start up MangoAI. The move signals a sharper focus on performance driven artificial intelligence across Canva’s global ecosystem.
Govind, who co founded MangoAI in 2025, built the company around reinforcement learning for generative video advertising. In simple terms, it helped brands not just create ads, but continually refine them using data driven feedback loops. With the acquisition now complete, that experimentation mindset is set to scale inside Canva’s rapidly expanding AI stack.
Before launching MangoAI, Govind served as vice president of data science and engineering at Netflix, where he spent eight years leading teams across content, studio, creative production and streaming. He was part of Netflix’s executive staff, working closely with senior leadership on creative algorithms, localisation and production innovation.
His earlier career reflects a strong operations research pedigree. He held senior technology roles at Lightning Bolt Solutions and worked in engineering and optimisation at Intel Corporation and IBM. Academically, he holds a PhD in industrial engineering and operations research from Penn State University and a master’s degree from University of California, Berkeley.
For Canva, the appointment is more than a new title. It reflects the growing importance of algorithms in shaping not only how designs look, but how they perform. As brands demand measurable outcomes from creative work, the line between art and optimisation is blurring. Canva appears keen to sit right at that intersection.
With Govind now steering its algorithms strategy, Canva is betting that the future of design will not just be beautiful, but intelligently tuned for impact.
