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Jyoti Kumar Bansal resigns from PHD India
NEW DELHI: Jyoti Kumar Bansal has stepped down from her position as CEO of PHD India. A highly-placed source confirmed the development to Indiantelevision.com.
She started her journey with PHD in 2013, at the time when the agency began its operation in India.
Indiantelevision.com tried reaching out to her for the confirmation, but couldn’t get any response at the time of filing the story.
Prior to this, she was the new business lead at Omnicom Media Group and worked with large clients like Unilever, Sony Networks, Ferrero, Renault Nissan, HTC and more.
In 2005, she joined Havas Media as Mumbai head to take on the fledgling operation. and helped launched Bloomberg UTV in India and India’s 1st non-music youth channel Bindass.
Bansal entered the media agency world in 1995 at Lintas Worldwide, Mumbai. She worked on the biggest brands in India at the time including Bajaj Auto, J&J Baby, Clinic Plus, Maruti Suzuki, etc.
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WPP appoints Estée Lauder’s Anne-Isabelle Choueiri as chief transformation officer
Former Estée Lauder executive to lead operations, technology and culture overhaul under WPP’s three-year growth plan
LONDON: WPP has appointed Anne-Isabelle Choueiri as chief transformation officer in a newly created role tasked with delivering the group’s Elevate28 strategy.
Choueiri joins from The Estée Lauder Companies, where she led enterprise-wide strategic initiatives, including the “One ELC” operating model and major upgrades to enterprise marketing, data and analytics capabilities. She also led the redesign of enterprise technology teams and served on the company’s AI taskforce, driving AI strategy, adoption and value realisation across the business.
At WPP, she will be responsible for designing, implementing and embedding the operating model behind Elevate28, the company’s three-year growth plan unveiled in February 2026. She will lead efforts to improve innovation, efficiency and integration across WPP’s client offerings, with a focus on delivering agile, outcome-driven solutions and measurable growth.
Choueiri will oversee organisational transformation across the group, working closely with product and enterprise technology teams to deploy AI, data and technology to build new capabilities and improve operational performance. She will also work with the people function to embed cultural change, strengthen an agile performance mindset and support talent development across the organisation.
Before joining Estée Lauder, she held senior roles across consulting and digital agencies, including at Accenture, Masaï (a Bain & Company spin-off), and Kearney, with experience spanning strategy, data and digital marketing transformation.
Cindy Rose, chief executive officer of WPP, said Choueiri brings a strong track record of leading large-scale transformation across operations, technology and culture, adding that her appointment will help accelerate the group’s next phase of growth under Elevate28.
Choueiri said WPP’s strategy represents an ambitious opportunity to reshape how the company operates and delivers for clients, adding that she looks forward to building integrated solutions and fostering a culture of innovation and change.
She will be based in New York and will join WPP’s executive committee.
