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Raj Kumar Singh takes charge as senior executive director at Anarock Mumbai
MUMBAI: Raj Kumar Singh, a seasoned real estate professional, has been appointed senior executive director – residential sales at Anarock, Mumbai. With over 23 years in the industry, Singh has played a pivotal role in shaping India’s luxury residential segment.
Singh began his career at Chesterton Meghraj, Tramell Crow Co, and JLL, where he built high-performing teams, drove revenue growth, and managed marquee clients including the Adani Group and Mariwala family. At JLL, he led Mumbai’s residential services and became senior vice president, overseeing large teams and revenue targets.
Joining Anarock in 2016 alongside Anuj Puri, Singh helped establish the firm as a premier real estate advisory. As regional director for Mumbai, he spearheaded revenue planning, digital marketing initiatives, CRM integration, and innovative tech adoption, consistently delivering market-leading performance.
A recognised thought leader, Singh has authored industry articles, appeared on television panels, and participated in prominent property expos. His academic credentials include a postgraduate degree from Welingkar Institute and leadership training at IIM Ahmedabad.
Singh’s appointment reflects Anarock’s ambition to strengthen its luxury residential portfolio in Mumbai while championing operational excellence, sustainable growth, and customer-centric innovation.
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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.
