BWI: Waggener Edstrom India makes Key Hires to Fuel its Growth

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Waggener Edstrom Worldwide
Thursday, October 11, 2012 03:05 PM IST (09:35 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, People; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Major diversified industrial groups, Media & entertainment
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Waggener Edstrom India makes Key Hires to Fuel its Growth


Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Thursday, October 11, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- Integrated communications agency Waggener Edstrom Worldwide today announced the addition of two senior hires in India to support its continued growth across the country. It entered India with its first office in Mumbai almost two years ago, followed by an expansion into Bengaluru and Delhi in 2011.

Bhuvnesh Chawla joins the team as General Manager, North India and Country Client Services Director. In his role, Bhuvnesh is responsible for expanding and strengthening Waggener Edstrom India's presence in North India. As Country Client Services Director, he will work with clients to drive strategies that will achieve positive business impact and successfully influence their target audiences. Bhuvnesh will also be responsible for customizing the agency's global proprietary Integrated Influence model of consulting to the Indian market.

The agency also appointed Kim Pinto as Account Director, based in Mumbai. She will oversee and manage a portfolio of technology and corporate clients.

"Bhuvnesh and Kim's appointments are important steps towards building a strong India leadership team in realizing our aspirations to becoming the market innovator and leader in Integrated Influence. This seamlessly blends traditional forms of Public Relations with earned, shared and owned digital platforms and tools that enable deeper audience immersion, improved targeting and ROI alignment," said Madhuri Sen, Managing Director India, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide.

Bhuvnesh has almost two decades of communications experience. Most recently, he worked with Ogilvy Public Relations and was tasked with building and managing its Public Affairs practice. Prior to that, he was the Chief Marketing Officer at Genesis Burson-Marsteller where, for over ten years, was responsible for business development; creating and launching new services including public affairs, digital marketing, corporate social responsibility and workshops covering areas such as media training, message development and crisis communications; launching a national and South Asia affiliate network and driving thought leadership for the firm.

Kim joins from Blue Lotus Communications where she was Group Account Director, driving successful PR campaigns for DHL Express across India. Prior tenures include work with Promax PR as well as ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller.

Sen added, "Waggener Edstrom's Integrated Influence approach to consulting has been very well received in India. We have doubled both our revenues and headcount over the last year and expect to keep up that pace of growth over the next couple of years. Towards this, expanding in Delhi and the rest of North India is key, as well as further building our core practices in areas such as technology, healthcare, BFSI and social innovation."

About Waggener Edstrom Worldwide

Waggener Edstrom Worldwide is a global, integrated communications agency. The agency has more than 850 employees in 19 offices around the world, and its Global Alliance program expands the agency's reach to more than 80 additional international markets. Waggener Edstrom offers seven global practices: Analyst Relations, Consumer, Corporate, Healthcare, Public Affairs, Technology and WE Social Innovation, along with its Studio DT digital strategies group. The firm was recently awarded 2011 Mid-Size Network of the Year at the Campaign Asia-Pacific PR Awards for the second year running, 2011 Best Digital Campaign of the Year by Holmes Report's Asia Pacific Sabre Awards, as well as 2011 Digital PR Firm of the Year by PRNews. More information can be found at http://apac.waggeneredstrom.com.

The Waggener Edstrom® mark, the Innovation Communications® mark, the twendzT mark, the WE Studio DT mark and other marks used herein are registered or unregistered trademarks of Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the registered or unregistered trademarks of their respective owners. Unauthorized use is strictly prohibited.

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CONTACT DETAILS
Meilin Wong Sandberg, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, +65 9819 1532, meilinws@waggeneredstrom.com

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