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Neo@Ogilvy names NDs of SEO and Mobile
MUMBAI: The full service digital arm of the the Ogilvy Group, Neo@Ogilvy has made a few appointments. Anil Singh joins Neo@Ogilvy as national director of SEO and Megha Ahuja will take on the role of national director (mobile) Neo@Ogilvy.
On the appointments, Neo@Ogilvy president and country head Sanjay Ramakrishnan said: “It’s great to have Anil and Megha join the neo@ogilvy team. One of the goals at Neo is to build deep domain capabilities across each aspect of digital marketing – Search, Mobile, Social and Display. The depth of capabilities is going to matter even more in the ever changing digital landscape. Anil and Megha are specialists in their domains and bring in vast amount of knowledge and experience in the SEO and Mobile space and I am sure it’s going to benefit all our clients.”
Singh brings in over 13 years of work experience in the digital space that spans various sectors. His expertise is specifically in SEO and prior to this he had spent seven years at Interactive Avenues, building the SEO practice from scratch.
Ahuja comes to us with a background that covers seven years in strategy, account management and digital marketing. Her exposure cuts across FMCG, auto, travel, telecom, media, healthcare and paints.
They will both be based in Delhi
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
