Hires & Promotions: Honda Cars, Paytm, Ipsos UU, BCG

Honda Cars India appoints Ryuto Shimizu as director - marketing and sales

Honda Cars India has appointed Ryuto Shimizu as director - marketing and sales. Shimuzu takes over Yuichi Murata, who has moved on to Honda Mexico. Previously, he was associated with Honda Automobile (Thailand) where he was in charge of the business planning office.

Shimizu, associated with Honda for over 25 years, has been a part of several international markets that include Japan, China and Thailand.

He has extensive experience in the domain of sales and marketing which includes product planning, overseas operations, business planning etc.

Paytm's CMO Sumit Mathur joins Glanbia Performance Nutrition as country head

Sumit Mathur, who had led Paytm as chief marketing officer, has joined Glanbia Performance Nutrition as country head - India and South Asia.

Mathur has over two decades of experience, having started his career as an area sales manager at Unilever. In 14 years, he held various roles in different capacities at the company where his last position was as the general manager for the ice cream division. Mathur is also a member of the Consumer Complaints Council at The Advertising Standards Council of India.

Ipsos UU (qualitative research division) reveals role enhancements across the team

Ipsos has reported a slew of role enhancements in Ipsos UU India to gear up for ambitious growth targets, launch of contemporary solutions and leveraging opportunities for its qualitative research vertical.

Commenting on the development, Amit Adarkar, CEO, Ipsos India says, “These role enhancements are meant to strategically elevate and enhance the role of Ipsos UU in India, with its slew of added specialities and specialists, equipping clients for the future. In sync with our ambitious growth targets and enriching our repertoire of offerings for 2025, when Ipsos turns 50.”

Sapna Parmar, research director, Ipsos UU India who services some of the largest accounts in the western cluster of Ipsos India, additionally takes up the role of UXR Champion for Ipsos UU. Parmar’s remit will be to build UX capabilities in terms of resources and operational efficiencies.

Neha Dutta, research director, Ipsos UU India has her role enhanced to include product testing champion, Ipsos UU. Dutta will invigorate product testing and enhance qualitative product testing capabilities across Ipsos’ roster of clients in India. She will also develop new modules and best practices.

Shelly Jain, research director, Ipsos UU, India dons another hat as the simplification champion, Ipsos UU. With agility the new buzzword in client delivery, Jain will focus on improving efficiencies in Ipsos UU, build a respondent panel and reduce turnaround time to clients by working efficiently around internal processes and with delivery teams.

Geetika Singh, country service line leader, Ipsos UU India, picks up the additional role of gen AI champion, for Ipsos UU in India. Singh will enhance AI adoption across her teams to unlock growth opportunities and efficiencies. 

Ashwini Sirsikar, group service line leader, Ipsos UU & Synthesio, in her expanded role, will oversee all new initiatives and provide mentoring across Ipsos UU. Her role has also expanded to include pitching for large projects as a part of the core team and under the initiative 'Pitch to Win'.

“With these significant developments in Ipsos UU, we endeavour to provide opportunities to our people to take on initiatives they feel passionately about. At the same time these initiatives would enable us to manage business more efficiently and provide new-age offerings to clients,” states Sirsikar.

Boston Consulting Group's Suniet Bezbaroowa joins Deloitte as partner

Suniet Bezbaroowa, who was the senior director of marketing at Boston Consulting Group, India, has joined Deloitte as a partner.

He started as a journalist and then went on to work across Genesis Colors, WageIndicator Foundation and Concept Public Relations India.

He was at Deloitte as associate director, marketing, brand, and communications, Deloitte India, before moving on to BCG as marketing director, India.