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Starwood Hotels is Delhi Daredevils’ principal hospitality sponsor
MUMBAI: The IPL fever is enticing international hospitality chains.
Close on the heels of Marriott India Hotels & Resorts’ sponsorship deal with Rajasthan Royals comes the Starwood Hotels and Resorts’ agreement with the Delhi Daredevils.
Starwood will be the principal hospitality sponsors for the team as they tour around the country to play their matches.
GMR Sports COO Amrit Mathur says, “We look forward to a long and fruitful association with Starwood. They are as passionate about cricket as we are.”
With IPL fever at its zenith, hospitality chains feel it’s the right time to associate with it as part of their brand building exercise.
“We are very excited about our partnership with GMR Sports as an associate sponsor for the Delhi Daredevils team. We see this as an opportunity to connect with the Indian audience, engage with them at different levels and leverage this opportunity to drive visibility and generate interest and hype for our brands and in GMR we found the perfect partner,” stated Starwood Asia Pacific Hotels and Resorts
managing director India and regional VP South Asia Dilip Puri.
The visibility for the hospitality brand is promised by the Starwood’s Westin brand logo being carried on the players’ jersey.
“During this IPL season we will be celebrating the spirit of the game across our 31 hotels in India which include Westin, Le Meridien, Sheraton, Luxury Collection, Four Points by Sheraton and Aloft, with exciting offers,” added Starwood Asia Pacific Hotels and Resorts regional director of sales and marketing South Asia Rajan Bahadur.
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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.
