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Vinayak Upadhyay jumps from mainline to Digital Law & Kenneth
MUMBAI: After a five-year stint with mainline Law and Kenneth as senior creative director, Vinayak Upadhyay has moved to Digital Law & Kenneth and will take on the mantle of chief creative officer there. He will report to Digital Law & Kenneth CEO and managing partner Anil K Nair.
Prior to joining Law & Kenneth, Upadhyay has worked with agencies like Nexus Equity, Lowe, Quadrant, Metaphor (Triton Group) DDB Mudra in India and the Apac region and handled brands like TOI, NDTV 24X7, Pidilite, Amul, Bajaj Auto, TVS Tyres, New Zealand Dairies, Levers, HSBC, The Oberoi Hotel, Jet Airways, Amul, Mercedes Benz, Subaru, Renault, Walls, Fedex, ITC Essenza di Wills, Godrej Hair Dye, Bombay Dyeing, Parle, Anchor, Pidilite, GVK, Kent, Dunkin Donuts, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, J&J, Philips, Nokia, WTF!, The Big Nasty and Idea.
His mandate at Digital Law & Kenneth will be to create ideas that people want to spend time with, those that will draw people in to a relationship with the brand, help transform lives, ideas that excite people enough to log on to the website, follow the coverage on TV or Radio, track the brand on Facebook and follow it on Twitter.
Upadhyay said, “I believe we are entering a new, exciting era where communication is swiftly becoming osmotic. Leaving behind the limiting shackles of time and space, of the 30 seconder and the100cc. To me brand engagement today, in the online and offline space, is much like a two player sport, like Tennis for example. There is a constant rally of ‘live’ communication and reaction being exchanged in real time. You’ll see this approach adopted by the most successful brands which are working hard at distinguishing themselves in the hearts and minds of their customers. All this is to create a memorable experience which is one reason why Brands are moving away from saying to doing across touch points. For which, we believe, the world is our canvas.”
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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.
