Leo Burnett Orchard has announced that Gaurav Dudeja has been promoted to the role of executive vice president and head of Leo Burnett Orchard and Pravin Sutar has been appointed as the head of creative at Leo Burnett Orchard.
They are responsible to lead Leo Burnett Orchard’s national mandate and will be reporting to chief executive officer & chief strategy officer, South Asia Leo Burnett – Dheeraj Sinha along with chief executive officer & chief creative officer, South Asia Leo Burnett – Rajdeepak Das.
Speaking on the appointments, Sinha stated, “Our ambition for Leo Burnett Orchard is to be the foremost creative and new age agency in the country. With the set of amazing brands that we have, topped with the talent we have got on board, Leo Burnett Orchard is correctly poised for glory and growth. Gaurav has done a spectacular job of driving growth in the Bangalore office. Now he has the mandate to grow the agency at a national level. Pravin joins us with a rich expertise in digital and also holds the advantage of having been a part of the Leo Burnett family. And together we are confident that the duo will take Leo Burnett Orchard to one of India’s foremost new age agencies.
“Both Gaurav and Pravin are brilliant professionals and bring a complimentary skill set that we are confident will help bring a more holistic and fresh perspective to the Leo Burnett Orchard team. This is Pravin’s second stint with us and Gaurav is a home grown leader, so they are both well immersed with the Leo Burnett HumanKind philosophy and our ambition to create globally aligned best in class work for our brands. At Orchard we have a great repertoire of iconic brands and we are looking forward to creating some outstanding work together. I wish both of them all the best in their new roles,” added Das.
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