Mumbai: Havas Group Singapore has appointed Mallika Shankar narayan as Chief Strategy Officer for Havas Village Singapore, effective immediately.
In her new role, Shankar narayan will lead strategy across all disciplines of the Havas Village offering – creative, media social, digital – reporting to Jacqui Lim, CEO Havas Village Singapore.
Shankarnarayan brings along with her 20 years of experience in strategic leadership across creative, media and marketing roles and a unique mix of integrated communication skills that is well suited to take the Havas Village proposition forward. Prior to Havas Group, Shankar narayan was the Regional Strategy Director at Grey Group Singapore and prior to that she worked across leading creative and media agencies on iconic, global brands like Johnson &Johnson , Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Coca Cola, Lego and Spotify. A frequent speaker at industry forums, Shankar narayan is a champion of brand-building with a focus on people, and culture.
Commenting on the appointment, Lim said, “Mallika’s deep understanding of behavioural change and expertise in developing integrated communications strategy (or choice architecture as she terms it) that turns human and cultural understanding into a competitive business advantage for brands are critical pillars of building Meaningful Brands. Meaningfulness is at core of our services and what we stand for as an agency network, and we believe Mallika’s skill set and experience is the perfect fit for our agency. I am delighted to welcome Mallika to the team and look forward to working with her along with the team.”
“Consumers are being bombarded with uninspiring content while marketers are struggling to balance the access to consumer behaviour data with the urgency to inspire consumers. Siloed solutions only dissect the brand experience into disconnected interactions. Havas Group’s lineage and ideology of building Meaningful Brands and the concept of an integrated ‘Village’ to break silos are exactly what brands need. I am excited to be a part of this value-proposition and bringing this vision to life,” added Shankarnarayan.
