The rejig creates a regional layer of nine executives beneath Ashutosh Srivastava (pictured), leader for Asia-Pacific. He previously had 30 executives reporting directly to him.
Stephanie Bell, ex-CEO at Mindshare Thailand, becomes leader for IndoChina and the Philippines, based in Bangkok. She also heads GroupM in Thailand. As reported last week (media.asia, 17 October), the rest of Southeast Asia will be headed by Jeffrey Seah.
Stephanie Bell, ex-CEO at Mindshare Thailand, becomes leader for IndoChina and the Philippines, based in Bangkok. She also heads GroupM in Thailand. As reported last week (media.asia, 17 October), the rest of Southeast Asia will be headed by Jeffrey Seah.
As reported earlier in the year, Andrew Meaden, formerly CEO of China, takes on the lead role for North Asia. He is based in Hong Kong and works with office leaders in China, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Mindshare has given its executives new titles, with leader being the most senior. It has appointed leaders at country, regional and global levels, and across four new internal business units: Business Planning, Invention, The Exchange and Client Leadership. Each country leader retains management of that market’s profit and loss account, with regional leaders responsible for overseeing the transition to the new structure.
James Chadwick, formerly head of strategy for Mindshare regionally, becomes Asia-Pacific leader of the Business Planning and Invention divisions.
Rob Hughes, who heads Mindshare’s global Motorola account, heads the Client Leadership division regionally. Arvind Sethumadhavan, formerly CEO of analytics arm ATG, becomes a client leader.
R Gowthaman swaps job titles from CEO of South Asia to leader for South Asia. Also reporting to Srivastava is Brian Stoller, partner for Invention and the region’s digital champion.
The only individual market without its own leader is Australia, which Srivastava will oversee directly following the departure of Chris Walton last month.
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