Brands
Rohini Venkateswaran to replace Sairamana Ponugoti as sales head at P&G India
MUMBAI: P&G India has appointed Rohini Venkateswaran as sales head of the organisation who will take over from the new year. She replaces Sairamana Ponugoti who resigned recently with his last day being 31 December 2024. The company informed the BSE about the development through a regulatory filing today.
Rohini Venkateswaran is an alumnus of SP Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai. She currently serves as the vice president & country manager Procter & Gamble Gulf – east gulf & sales strategy Gulf. In her current role, Rohini is responsible for five countries in Gulf- Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar as general manager and UAE as overall sales strategy leader.
She joined Procter and Gamble India in 2005 in sales, and has diverse experiences in distributor management, modern trade and sales strategy and planning roles across geographies including Dubai and the US. She has worked with all global customers and channels including e-commerce and has also gained diverse experience as the commercial leader for Olay and Old Spice in India.
She is passionate about equality and inclusion and building long-term strategic partnerships with stakeholders. She enjoys coaching and mentoring people in bringing out their best. She is a graduate in mechanical engineering from RV College of Engineering, Bangalore.
Brands
Faber-Castell India appoints Sunaina Haldar as director – marketing
With stints at Tata, SleepyCat and ADF Foods under her belt, Haldar is primed to redraw Faber-Castell’s brand story
MUMBAI: Faber-Castell India has poached Sunaina Haldar from ADF Foods, appointing her director – marketing as the German stationery brand looks to muscle up in a category that is rapidly reinventing itself around creativity and self-expression.
Haldar hit the ground running. “My first couple of weeks have been incredibly energising, understanding consumers, visiting markets, engaging with retailers and immersing myself into the world of Faber-Castell Group,” she said.
She arrives with considerable firepower. At ADF Foods, Haldar ran marketing across India and international markets for a portfolio spanning Ashoka, Aeroplane, Camel and ADF Soul. Before that, she was vice-president – marketing at direct-to-consumer mattress brand SleepyCat, where she helmed brand, content and performance marketing. Her résumé also includes a stint leading marketing, new product development and CRM for Tata SmartFoodz at Tata Consumer Products, no small proving ground.
Between corporate roles, Haldar also operated as a fractional CMO for early-stage startups, building marketing strategy and operational structures from scratch, a signal that she knows how to move fast with limited resources.
With 18 years straddling FMCG, D2C and the startup world, Haldar now takes the reins at a brand that has long owned the classroom but is clearly hungry for the living room. In a stationery market where the pencil has become a lifestyle statement, Faber-Castell has picked someone who knows exactly how to sell that story.
