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Vikram Hemdev joins Laqshya Hyderabad Airport Media as COO
MUMBAI: Laqshya Media Group has announced the appointment of Vikram Hemdev as COO – Laqshya Hyderabad Airport Media Pvt Ltd (LHAMPL), the joint venture between Laqshya Media Limited and GMR group.
He comes with 18 years of rich experience across the Media & Advertising landscape, Sales & Marketing, Business Operations and P&L Management. Prior to joining Laqshya Media Group, Hemdev’s last assignment was with Times OOH as the business head – traditional OOH and trading. He also successfully handled the Delhi Airport & Mumbai Airport advertising business during critical junctures.
He has been associated with the Bennett & Coleman Group for more than a decade handling multiple responsibilities across radio, activations, airport advertising and traditional OOH. In the past, he has worked with organisations such as Mercedes-Benz, McCann, Ogilvy, Indian Express and Mphasis.
Hemdev is coming in place Mr Shashi Sinha who has helmed this business for over 10 years. Sinha has had a 12 years long and successful stint at Laqshya Group with all their business divisions – media assets, OMI and Hyderabad Airport. He moves on to a new assignment and we wish him all the very best in all his future endeavours.
Hemdev said, “I am very happy to be a part of Laqshya, especially at a time when the OOH industry is going through a reset. The next few months are the most challenging and all our collective experiences are going to get thoroughly tested. I am looking forward to add value, rebuild the airport advertising business, move it in a positive direction and hopefully set new benchmarks.”
Laqshya Media Group CEO Atul Shrivastava said, “Laqshya Media Group is very happy to welcome Vikram Hemdev as the COO of LHAMPL. Post lockdown the demand for travel is seeing a steady increase and air-travel is seen as one of the safest modes of transport. The dwell time at airports has increased significantly & consumers are more alert than ever. A lot of brands have already positioned themselves at Hyderabad Airport keeping the new normal in mind & it is only poised to increase further, very soon!
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Ember Cookware appoints Amit Singh as chief of supply chain
10-year veteran to lead operations as brand scales across D2C, quick commerce and retail.
MUMBAI: Ember just handed its supply chain the perfect seasoning because when your cookware is non-toxic and non-stick, the operations behind it better be fast and flawless. Ember Cookware has appointed Amit Singh as chief of supply chain and Services, bolstering its leadership team at a pivotal growth phase. Singh brings over a decade of experience in supply chain strategy, operations and large-scale network buildouts.
He began his career at Singapore-based retail giant Giant Hypermarket before joining Pharmeasy in 2015, where he played a foundational role in building and scaling its pan-India supply chain across B2B and B2C channels. At API Holdings, he later led supply chain operations for North India, managing end-to-end execution across complex, multi-city networks.
In his new role, Amit will oversee Ember’s complete supply chain and service ecosystem including sourcing, manufacturing coordination, logistics, last-mile delivery, post-purchase support and workforce development. His mandate focuses on building cost-efficient, resilient operations that shorten fulfilment times, strengthen inventory management and deliver a consistently high-quality consumer experience as the brand expands nationally.
Ember Cookware co-founder & CEO Siddharth Gadodia said, “Supply chain is where growth either holds or breaks. As we scale across channels and geographies, we need operations that are efficient, resilient, and built for speed, without ever compromising on the consumer experience. Amit has done this before, at real scale.”
Ember Cookware co-founder & CMO Himanshi Tandon added, “As we scale, supply chain efficiency becomes as important as product and brand. Amit’s mandate is to build the operational foundations that make our promise consistent at scale.”
Amit Singh commented, “Ember is building something genuinely different, a category-defining brand with a clear purpose and the ambition to match. I’m looking forward to building supply chain infrastructure that doesn’t just keep pace with growth, but enables it.”
The appointment forms part of Ember’s broader push to deepen leadership across key functions as it invests in its Innovation Lab, proprietary material technologies and operational backbone to support national expansion.
In a kitchenware world where non-stick promises are easy but delivery is hard, Ember isn’t just cooking up products, it’s cooking up an operation that keeps every promise sizzling from factory to fork.
