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Tribal DDB’s Bagchi and Rapp India’s George get additional charge
MUMBAI: DDB Mudra Group‘s digital agency Tribal DDB and multi-channel agency RAPP India have given additional responsibilities to Saugata Bagchi and Bijoe George.
George, who is vice-president of RAPP India, will now handle the agency‘s operations in the West and South. He will also continue to lead RAPP‘s key client in India, HP.
While, Tribal DDB VP Bagchi will now be in charge of the West and South operations for Tribal DDB through Mumbai and Bangalore offices.
Both, George and Bagchi will continue to report to Tribal DDB and Rapp India president Venkat Mallik.
Mallik said, “We have had a very good 2012 for both Tribal DDB and RAPP. The new structure with expanded roles for Bijoe and Saugata will help us leverage their skills better &build on the progress we have made in 2012. The year 2013 should see us deepening our capabilities anddelivering higher quality business and creative solutions for our clients while we build RAPP and Tribal DDB into stronger bigger communications agencies.”
Bagchi said, “We‘ve had a strong hold in the western market and were able to further consolidate it in 2012. I am very excited about this new opportunity and believe that with our new improved digital skill sets, our clients in Southern India will increasingly contribute to the fast pace of growth that we‘ve set for Tribal DDB India.”
“Over the last few years RAPP India has won many blue chip clients and 2013 would further propel our growth story. It would be exciting to lead this growth and transformation. Given RAPP‘s legacy in the data analytics space combined with its media neutral offering, clients across verticals will find the RAPP proposition a compelling one,” George said.
Brands
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.
