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Mindshare adds apna.com, Launch My Career & Winzo to client roster
Mumbai: Mindshare North has started the year with several business wins across consumer internet and data-technology category. This includes professional network site apna.com, online career guidance platform Launch My Career and social gaming app Winzo.
“The new wins go on to demonstrate client’s confidence in Mindshare’s capability to deliver not just highly visible award-winning campaigns, but deliver across the funnel by driving awareness, consideration, and eventual conversion as well for brands,” said the statement. “The ability to wrangle data, capitalize digital, leverage content and most importantly deliver outcomes, is what has driven differentiation in the market for Mindshare.”
The agency has been focusing its efforts to leverage data, digital and content space in the last few years as part of its growth strategy. Mindshare has continued investments in products, platforms and people and built a future-ready team to partner with clients for their data, digital and content transformation and growth journey.
“Several wins across a sector like consumer-internet and data-tech is a testament to the client’s trust in our work,” said Mindshare North and East India senior vice president client leadership Ruchi Mathur. “Brands today are looking for a strategic partner who can co-create communication with smart data and tech to deliver efficient campaigns and brand messaging. Clients are increasingly opting for agencies who have the capability to deliver full- funnel solutions and we are fully capable of delivering on these requirements. We are proud to have won these accounts in these emerging categories and we are confident of delivering the best to the clients.”
“These wins contribute to our vision of growth,” said Mindshare South Asia CEO Parthasarathy Mandayam. “While Mindshare continues to deliver in the traditional media space, there is increased focus on performance, data, tech, content as well. It is a privilege to see our teams continue to work hard and adapt to these difficult times and an honour to have clients put their trust in us, this is what makes Mindshare. These wins show that the team’s hard work and our strategy is paying off.”
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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.
