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MindShift new wing’s stylized visuals to amplify user engagement
MUMBAI: Seeing is believing. MindShift Interactive will be launching its new wing, MindShift Studios, to assist brands develop original and stylized content. The content will help deliver strong visual campaigns that increase awareness and amplify brand-user engagement.
Research suggests that 93 per cent of all human communication is non-verbal, and it becomes clear that a visual online presence is critical. When it comes to marketing your business, imagery speaks volumes. Not only do pictures and videos make a bigger impact, they do it in short time. The growth of visual content in the form of photos and videos is increasing with millennials pursuing an ever-growing need for fresher content, each time.
MindShift Studios satiates this need by providing personalised content through a network of skilled photographers and videographers, who then help curate content with in-house visualizers, story creators and influencer relationship managers. The journey towards bespoke visual content production gets unraveled in their unique model which entails handpicking the right videographer or photographer as per client requirements, and partnering them with digital influencers to create a personalised, amplified story that can be leveraged across social media.
With over five years of creating such visual stories for brands like Kiehl’s, Lancôme, JW Marriott, Splash Fashions and many more within the beauty, lifestyle and hospitality sector, MindShift Studios has launched a focused arm towards growing across the country and building a MindShift on promising partnerships. The company will primarily cater to the lifestyle, hospitality, fashion and beauty industry.
Their services will include:
• Visual Campaign Management: This will include holistic management which involves selecting the right influencers, photographers, videographers and execution of the campaign, powered by analytics on the parameters assigned to understand the viability of visual content.
• Personalised Visual Production: Every project will create concepts with a mood board, develop and execute the ideas.
• Live Events: Capturing Live events using a storytelling approach with the help of engaging rich media and blended in well with user generated content to continue the momentum.
• Instagram Influencer meet ups: Involving influencers through an offline approach to generate buzz and propel evangelism. A base of over key opinion leaders, celebrities and social media influencers team up to provide the right experience.
• Influencer Takeovers: Content curators will take over the brand’s social media accounts and bring in a uniqueness that will help increase consumer engagement and the overall brand reach.
Speaking on the occasion, MindShift Interactive CEO Zafar Rais, states, “With over five years of creating personalised visual content within the lifestyle, hospitality, beauty and fashion space, we recognize the impact of curated stories. Witnessing the growing demand for visual content, we wanted a focused and progressive business unit that partnered with skilled photographers and videographers to tell these stories. The need will be satiated through the impeccable team we have put together at MindShift Studios towards creating a shift in the way stories must be articulated on digital.”
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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.
