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DDB MudraMax realigns biz units; announces new leadership structure
MUMBAI: In line with the changing consumer, market dynamics and the imperative need to offer seamless consumer engagement solutions to clients, DDB Mudra Group has realigned its media, OOH, experiential and retail businesses that are offered under the DDB MudraMax brand.
DDB Mudra Group executive director and DDB MudraMax Media (including digital) president Sathyamurthy Namakkal will now additionally take charge of the DDB MudraMax OOH business.
This consolidation bolsters the multi channel media offerings of the group and will help clients benefit with access to the entire gamut of services in data analytics, media planning and buying across all media touch points. Both units have grown aggressively over the past three years and this consolidation is the next step in achieving exponential growth.
DDB Mudra Group executive director and DDB MudraMax head of ideas Aneil Deepak (popularly known as Andee) will now take charge of the DDB MudraMax experiential business as well.
Deepak has taken the lead in delivering path breaking campaigns for clients in the experiential and engagement space viz. Health Cha Shree Ganesh, The Misunderstood Scoreboard, Eye for an Eye. With the experiential business added to his portfolio, the group looks to build innovative and engaging brand experiences that deliver business growth for all clients.
TracyLocke head business and operations Sameer Mehta will take independent charge of the business and will now report directly to DDB Mudra Group CEO and MD Madhukar Kamath. He has been instrumental in delivering technology led solutions for clients to help grow their business in the field marketing, shopper marketing and the retail space.
Kamath said, “Partnering our clients in solving their business challenges and rewarding top performers in the group have always been top priority for us. Realigning the DDB MudraMax business helps us achieve both these objectives. We will also see several young and deserving talent in the group grow into positions of responsibility aligned to our constant endeavour of building an agile organisation.”
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Ember Cookware appoints Amit Singh as chief of supply chain
10-year veteran to lead operations as brand scales across D2C, quick commerce and retail.
MUMBAI: Ember just handed its supply chain the perfect seasoning because when your cookware is non-toxic and non-stick, the operations behind it better be fast and flawless. Ember Cookware has appointed Amit Singh as chief of supply chain and Services, bolstering its leadership team at a pivotal growth phase. Singh brings over a decade of experience in supply chain strategy, operations and large-scale network buildouts.
He began his career at Singapore-based retail giant Giant Hypermarket before joining Pharmeasy in 2015, where he played a foundational role in building and scaling its pan-India supply chain across B2B and B2C channels. At API Holdings, he later led supply chain operations for North India, managing end-to-end execution across complex, multi-city networks.
In his new role, Amit will oversee Ember’s complete supply chain and service ecosystem including sourcing, manufacturing coordination, logistics, last-mile delivery, post-purchase support and workforce development. His mandate focuses on building cost-efficient, resilient operations that shorten fulfilment times, strengthen inventory management and deliver a consistently high-quality consumer experience as the brand expands nationally.
Ember Cookware co-founder & CEO Siddharth Gadodia said, “Supply chain is where growth either holds or breaks. As we scale across channels and geographies, we need operations that are efficient, resilient, and built for speed, without ever compromising on the consumer experience. Amit has done this before, at real scale.”
Ember Cookware co-founder & CMO Himanshi Tandon added, “As we scale, supply chain efficiency becomes as important as product and brand. Amit’s mandate is to build the operational foundations that make our promise consistent at scale.”
Amit Singh commented, “Ember is building something genuinely different, a category-defining brand with a clear purpose and the ambition to match. I’m looking forward to building supply chain infrastructure that doesn’t just keep pace with growth, but enables it.”
The appointment forms part of Ember’s broader push to deepen leadership across key functions as it invests in its Innovation Lab, proprietary material technologies and operational backbone to support national expansion.
In a kitchenware world where non-stick promises are easy but delivery is hard, Ember isn’t just cooking up products, it’s cooking up an operation that keeps every promise sizzling from factory to fork.
