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Dentsu wins creative mandate for Max India corporate
MUMBAI: Dentsu Creative Impact, Dentsu India’s full service advertising agency, has been awarded the creative duties for Max India Limited, a leading multi-business corporate with commanding India presence in life insurance (Max Life), healthcare (Max Healthcare), health insurance (Max Bupa Health Insurance), clinical Research (Max Neeman) and the manufacturing of speciality products for the packaging industry (Max Speciality Films).
The agency has also won the creative mandate for the newest brand within the Max India Group – Antara, which is in the business of redefining how seniors live in India today through their upcoming residential communities for people over the age of sixty.
Dentsu India Group executive chairman Rohit Ohri said “We’re really excited to partner Max India in its next phase of growth and development in the market. Max India is focused on creating positive social impact in the country through its businesses. This vision offers us a unique opportunity to create communication that not only connects with audiences at multiple emotional levels but also through a wide variety of touch points. Another opportunity for us to demonstrate our integrated communication thinking!”
Driven by the spirit of enterprise, Max India Limited focuses on people and service-oriented businesses, the core of which revolves around ‘Life’. The Group is credited with forging and successfully nurturing strong and fruitful business relationships with leading global companies over the years. Max India enjoys strong relationships with its JV partners – Fortune 100 company New York Life, South African healthcare major Life Healthcare and leading international healthcare provider, Bupa.
Max India Head – Communications Nitin Thakur said, “We were looking for a creative partner to help us think through a distinct and meaningful positioning of brand Max that reflects our ethos and is a powerful enough core for our Group businesses to build their individual product positioning around it. Two things about Dentsu’s approach stood out for us. While strategy was at the forefront, the enthusiasm displayed by the new team at Dentsu Creative Impact helped fortify our belief that a lot of fresh thinking is on the cards for a stronger and resurgent Brand Max.”
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Beacon Group appoints Dr Rajesh Patel as Group CEO
36-year healthcare veteran to lead Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek, Biogeny.
MUMBAI: A new chief, a fresh diagnosis and a sharper prescription for growth. Beacon Group has appointed Dr Rajesh Patel as its Group Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2026, signalling a decisive push to scale its presence in the diagnostics and IVD space. Patel steps into the role with 36 years of experience across the healthcare and diagnostics industry, bringing a career shaped by leadership roles spanning sales, marketing, business development and operational strategy. His mandate is both expansive and precise: to steer the group’s overall strategic direction while tightening coordination across its three core entities Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek and Biogeny Diagnostics.
In practical terms, that means driving cross-company synergies, accelerating market expansion and strengthening organisational capability areas increasingly critical as diagnostic players compete for scale in a fragmented yet rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem. The group is positioning itself to capture unmet demand across chain laboratories, key accounts and standalone labs, segments that remain underserved despite growing diagnostic needs.
The appointment comes at a time when the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) sector in India is entering a more competitive and innovation-led phase, with companies focusing not just on product pipelines but also on service delivery, integration and customer-centric models. Beacon’s leadership appears to be betting that Patel’s execution-focused approach can help translate ambition into operational momentum.
Welcoming the appointment, Chairman Dr D K Joshi described Patel’s induction as a strategic move aligned with the group’s long-term vision, emphasising the role of leadership depth in navigating the next phase of growth.
For Beacon Group, the message is clear, in a sector where precision matters, leadership is the new differentiator—and this appointment is intended to set the tone for what comes next.
