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Arun Nanda appointed to Young & Rubicam’s global governing body
MUMBAI: Diwan Arun Nanda, chairman and MD of Rediffusion DY&R brand communications and co-chairman Dentsu Young & Rubicam/Wunderman, Asia-Pacific, has been appointed to the global leadership council of Young & Rubicam Advertising, one of the world’s top ten agencies.
An official release announcing the appointment quoted Mike Dolan, chairman and CEO of Y&R Advertising, as saying that Y&R is flattening its organisational structure around the world, cutting across geography and hierarchy to make a completely client-centric agency.
A group of senior managers, which forms the new global leadership council, will now govern the agency globally.
“Y&R Advertising is organising to reflect the way we do business today,” said Dolan. “In the past, agencies managed themselves geographically and hierarchically. That’s no longer enough. The focus of the council will be squarely on delivering the best of the agency to clients, wherever they do business. As such, the council’s charter is to cut across all traditional organisational lines on behalf of our clients,” he continued.
“The global leadership council importantly gives many of its participants a new voice in determining the direction of the agency. This infusion of new blood in our management circle will invigorate us and help us keep our clients front and center,” Dolan stated. “The members of the council have uplifted their clients’ brands, and each has a proven ability to work across communications disciplines. What’s more, they live the principle of teamwork every day. They know that putting together diverse talents in a free exchange of ideas makes us stronger collectively and individually,” Dolan stated.
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BPCL’s Director (Marketing) takes additional HR charge and IGL chairmanship
Subhankar Sen assumes dual leadership roles effective 1 April 2026.
MUMBAI: When fuel meets people management, sparks are bound to fly and BPCL has just handed the wheel to one of its seasoned drivers for both the road ahead and the team behind it. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) has announced that Shri Subhankar Sen, Director (Marketing), has taken over the additional charge of Director (Human Resources) with immediate effect. In a related development, he has also been appointed Chairman of Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) effective 1 April 2026, succeeding Shri Raj Kumar Dubey under the established rotational nomination process between promoter entities.
With over three decades of experience at BPCL, Sen brings deep expertise across key marketing verticals including Retail, LPG, Lubricants, Aviation, Industrial & Commercial, Gas, and Consumer Retailing. A graduate of the University of Calcutta and holder of a Post Graduate Diploma in Executive Management from S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, he has played a pivotal role in strengthening BPCL’s market presence and advancing its integrated energy transition strategy.
In his additional HR role, Sen will oversee the company’s human capital strategy, with emphasis on talent development, leadership building, organisational transformation, and building a future-ready workforce aligned with BPCL’s long-term growth and sustainability goals.
As the new Chairman of IGL, he is expected to bring a strong vision for sustainable growth and customer-centric excellence to the city gas distribution major.
BPCL, a Fortune Global 500 company and Maharatna PSU, is India’s second-largest oil marketing company with a combined refining capacity of 35.3 MMTPA across its refineries in Mumbai, Kochi and Bina. The company operates an extensive marketing network comprising over 23,500 fuel stations, more than 6,200 LPG distributorships, 500+ lube distributorships, 79 aviation service stations and 5 cross-country pipelines.
The energy major is aggressively pursuing its net-zero ambitions, targeting Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2040, and has already set up electric vehicle charging stations at over 6,500 fuel stations.
From fuelling millions of vehicles to fuelling talent and leadership within the organisation, Subhankar Sen now finds himself at the intersection of BPCL’s operational engine and its people power, a dual responsibility that could prove crucial as the company accelerates towards a more sustainable energy future.
