Ogilvy India has announced Prem Narayan as the Chief Strategy Officer of Ogilvy India and Balagopalan Ganapathy as Head of Planning, Ogilvy Mumbai. Both roles are effective immediately.

In his capacity as Chief Strategy Officer, Narayan will lead the planning team to drive the national agenda. He will also continue to partner the CCOs and Business Heads to deliver creative solutions to clients nationally. He will report directly to Kunal Jeswani.

Narayan has been with Ogilvy since 2004. He has been part of the team that pioneered the planning function in the agency. He has worked on many clients including Asian Paints, Bajaj, Blue Star, Castrol, Ceat, GreenPly, ICICI Bank, MP Birla Group, Tata Motors, Tata Sky, Unilever and Zandu.

Ganapathy will report to Narayan and work with the city business heads and CCOs to drive the planning agenda for Mumbai office. He has been part of the planning team since 2005. He has worked on brands such as Asian Paints, Bajaj, Cadbury, Home Center, JSW, ITC and Pidilite.

Both are part of the training faculty at Ogilvy.

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