Bharti airtel has appointed Bharat Bambawale of advertising firm JWT (London) as its global brand director. Mohit Beotra, brand head for Bharti?s India and South Asian operations, and Achieng Butler, head of branding in the African markets, will now report to Bambawale, who was previously the global team leader for Unilever?s hair care portfolio at JWT.
Bambawale?s appointment follows three other senior-level appointments at the group level in the past three months. In March 2011, Ananda Mukerji, who served as the chief executive officer and managing director of Firstsource Solutions, moved to Bharti Enterprises in the role of group director, business development, and N. Rajaram, vice-president at Hindustan Unilever, joined Airtel to head its mobile business marketing unit.
In the same month, Jai Menon was promoted to the post of group director, tnformation technology, from the position of group chief information officer at Bharti Enterprises and director, technology and customer service, Bharti airtel.
