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The Good Glamm Group ropes in Malvika Mehra as chief creative officer
Mumbai: The Good Glamm Group has recently announced the appointment of advertising stalwart Malvika Mehra as chief creative officer. Malvika will lead the strategic thinking and creative mandate on brands across offline and online channels including mainline, performance, social, community, marketplace, store, digital, retail and design. The Good Glamm is the content-to-commerce group in South Asia and the digital BPC (Beauty & Personal Care) conglomerate leveraging content and creators for commerce in India.
Mehra has 30 years of expertise in the advertising industry. She worked with Grey for five years and Ogilvy for more than 15 years before joining Dentsu India. She also founded Tomorrow Creative Lab and served as its creative director for two years. In the course of her career, Mehra has worked on brands like Vodafone, Honda, and Gillette, to mention a few.
Later, she started her own entrepreneurial journey with Tomorrow Creative Lab, her clientele included the likes of HUL, Oyo Rooms, and NDTV among others.
Additionally, she has participated as a jury member for cinema, print, and design categories at prestigious international advertising and design festivals like Cannes, Clio, and Spikes Asia.
Mehra shared via her LinkedIn profile, “The Good Glamm is the largest content-to-commerce group in South Asia and the fastest growing digital BPC (beauty and personal care) conglomerate leveraging content and creator for commerce in India. I am excited about using new tools to deliver both – brand desire and great value for our brands here.”
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Kate Rouch steps down as OpenAI Chief Marketing Officer
Marketing leader prioritises health after late-stage breast cancer diagnosis.
MUMBAI: When the toughest battle moves from the boardroom to the personal front, even the sharpest minds know it’s time to step back and focus on winning the most important fight of all. Kate Rouch, chief marketing officer at OpenAI, has announced she is stepping down from her role to focus on recovery following a diagnosis of late-stage breast cancer.
In a heartfelt LinkedIn post, Rouch revealed she was diagnosed around a year and a half ago, shortly after taking on the CMO position. Despite undergoing intensive treatment, she continued to lead the company’s marketing function through what she described as one of the most challenging periods of her career.
She explained that while she remained deeply committed to her role and team, she had reached a point where prioritising her health and recovery had become essential. Rouch called the decision difficult, noting it required acknowledging personal limits and shifting priorities. She reflected that the experience had reshaped her understanding of courage not always about pushing harder, but sometimes about stepping back to focus on long-term wellbeing, family and sustainability.
Rouch expressed gratitude to her team and colleagues for their support. She mentioned that Gary will step in to help lead the function and recruit a successor. She plans to support the transition and remains open to returning in a different capacity in the future, depending on her health.
Prior to joining OpenAI, Rouch served as the first chief marketing officer at Coinbase and spent over a decade at Meta, where she was vice president and global head of brand and product marketing.
She also thanked well-wishers for their messages and shared that stories from fellow survivors had a meaningful impact during her treatment journey.
In the high-stakes world of tech marketing, Kate Rouch has always been known for her strategic brilliance. Now, she is showing a different kind of strength, one that reminds us that even the most driven leaders sometimes need to pause, heal, and come back stronger when the time is right. Wishing her a full and steady recovery.
