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Havas Group India appoints Bobby Pawar as chief creative officer
MUMBAI: Havas Group on 26 November announced the appointment of Bobby Pawar as the chairman and chief creative officer. He is currently serving as the managing director and chief creative officer at Publicis Worldwide and will be commencing his new role from January 2019.
Taking up the full responsibilities of integrated operations and looking after the creative propositions of the Group, Bobby Pawar will report to chairman and CEO Vishnu Mohan.
Pawar has been in the advertising industry for more than two decades and has offered his services to agencies such as Publicis, JWT, DDB Mudra Group, BBDO Chicago, and Ogilvy New York in the past.
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UltraTech Cement appoints Jayant Dua as managing director
Dua will succeed K. C. Jhanwar after his term ends in December 2026
MUMBAI: UltraTech Cement, the flagship cement arm of the Aditya Birla Group, has elevated Jayant Dua as managing director, effective 1 April, 2026.
The company’s board also approved his appointment as additional director, managing director and key managerial personnel, effective 1 January, 2027, following the completion of the current managing director K C Jhanwar’s term on 31 December, 2026, according to a regulatory filing.
Dua will serve as managing director for a four-year term from 1 January, 2027 to 31 December, 2030.
A veteran executive with more than 37 years of professional experience, Dua joined the Aditya Birla Group’s cement business in 1996 and spent nearly a decade in various functional and leadership roles.
Over the past two decades, he has held several profit-and-loss and chief executive responsibilities across multiple group businesses, including insulators, insurance, Century Cement and the chlor-alkali segment. In 2023, he was elevated to lead the group’s renewables and textiles businesses.
Within the group, Dua has received several internal honours, including the chairman’s individual award for exceptional contribution in 2002, the outstanding leader award in 2009 and the leader of leaders recognition in 2022.
He holds an engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, an MBA from International Management Institute and has completed the advanced management programme at Harvard Business School.
