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Rediffusion-Y&R picks Bhaskar Ghosh to head Delhi operations
MUMBAI: Bhaskar Ghosh has joined Rediffusion-Y&R as the head of the agency‘s Delhi office.
Ghosh will report to Rediffusion-Y&R COO Amitava Sinha, His last stint was with Contract Advertising- Delhi as senior vice president – account management.
Rediffusion-Y&R president D Rajappa said, “Bhaskar will be looking after the day-to-day activities and consequential growth of our Delhi operations. I feel Delhi is an important and fairly larger market and we have a good team there. Bhaskar will strengthen the team.”
Ghosh comes in with over 18 years of experience in advertising. Prior to joining Contract Advertising, he has also worked with TBWA, Leo Burnett, Bates and Grey and has handled clients like Nokia, Coca-Cola, Sony, Dabur, SpiceJet, India Today and The Hindustan Times.
Rediffusion-Y&R is a communication agency providing strategic, media and creative solutions to its clients.
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UltraTech Cement appoints Jayant Dua as managing director
Dua will succeed K. C. Jhanwar after his term ends in December 2026
MUMBAI: UltraTech Cement, the flagship cement arm of the Aditya Birla Group, has elevated Jayant Dua as managing director, effective 1 April, 2026.
The company’s board also approved his appointment as additional director, managing director and key managerial personnel, effective 1 January, 2027, following the completion of the current managing director K C Jhanwar’s term on 31 December, 2026, according to a regulatory filing.
Dua will serve as managing director for a four-year term from 1 January, 2027 to 31 December, 2030.
A veteran executive with more than 37 years of professional experience, Dua joined the Aditya Birla Group’s cement business in 1996 and spent nearly a decade in various functional and leadership roles.
Over the past two decades, he has held several profit-and-loss and chief executive responsibilities across multiple group businesses, including insulators, insurance, Century Cement and the chlor-alkali segment. In 2023, he was elevated to lead the group’s renewables and textiles businesses.
Within the group, Dua has received several internal honours, including the chairman’s individual award for exceptional contribution in 2002, the outstanding leader award in 2009 and the leader of leaders recognition in 2022.
He holds an engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, an MBA from International Management Institute and has completed the advanced management programme at Harvard Business School.
