New Delhi: Senior marketing leader Karan Kumar has concluded his tenure as Chief Marketing Officer at Hero Realty, marking the close of an important chapter in a career spanning more than 25 years across marketing, brand building and business transformation.

During his time at Hero Realty, Kumar played a key role in strengthening the company’s marketing function, advancing its brand strategy and accelerating its digital marketing capabilities. Prior to Hero Realty, he held leadership roles across organizations including ITC, Fabindia, DLF and ART Fertility Clinics, leading business growth and brand transformation across multiple sectors.

Kumar is now entering the next phase of his professional journey, where he is exploring new opportunities while laying the foundations for an independent advisory platform focused on business growth, marketing transformation and leadership. More details about the platform and future collaborations are expected to be shared in the coming months.

Reflecting on the transition, Kumar said, “The most rewarding part of my career has been helping organizations navigate moments of growth and transformation. This next chapter is about bringing those experiences to a wider set of businesses while remaining open to opportunities where I can help create meaningful business impact at scale.”

Further announcements regarding Kumar’s advisory platform and future collaborations are expected later this year.

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~ Supporting Vashi’s next phase of growth and transformation, the consultancy will lead the strategic communications and social media mandate to amplify corporate visibility ~

Mumbai, 30 June, 2026: Founded as a single-source provider of electrical components, Vashi Integrated Solutions has grown into one of India’s most reliable B2B procurement and sourcing partners.   A digitally enabled, technology-driven procurement ecosystem with multi-category offerings and pan-India service capability, the company has appointed Pitchfork Partners Strategic Consulting as its strategic communications partner.

Once known as Vashi Electricals Private Limited, the company’s evolution into Vashi Integrated Solutions (Vashi) reflects a transformation that goes well beyond a name. Over the decades, Vashi has built the scale, operational capabilities, and expertise to serve India’s growing industrial, infrastructure, and energy sectors, establishing itself as a trusted procurement partner across industries. With a strong customer-first, solution-oriented approach and deep local presence, the company has served over 2 lakh customers over its lifetime. The partnership with Pitchfork Partners, spanning across corporate communications, media engagement, and visibility, is a strategic move for Vashi to bring its market presence in line with the business it has built.

Commenting on the partnership, Suraj Dodeja, CEO, Vashi Integrated Solutions, said: “What we have built today is far more expansive than where we began. It is a business that has earned the trust of its customers by delivering consistently, across every commitment we’ve made. As Vashi continues to evolve and expand, this partnership will help us communicate that journey with greater clarity and consistency. Strategic communication plays an important role in strengthening visibility, deepening stakeholder engagement, and supporting the next phase of our growth.”

Sharing his views on the partnership, Jaideep Shergill, Co-Founder, Pitchfork Partners, said: “Vashi Integrated Solutions represents a modern evolution in India’s sourcing and procurement needs, blending tradition, technology-driven capabilities, and a customer-first approach. We look forward to collaborating with a company that has consistently driven business growth across the industrial, infrastructure, and energy sectors for more than four decades. We aim to create a clearer and more prominent corporate narrative that reflects Vashi’s scale, innovation, and long-term vision.”

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–  Bring deep domain expertise across retail & e-commerce industries

Mumbai, August 05, 2024: ace turtle, India’s leading technology-native retail company today announced the appointment of three distinguished leaders to its senior management team. Rahul Rajan has been appointed as Chief Business Officer – Retail of fashion brands, Agnes Raja George as AVP and Business Head of Wrangler & Central Planning and Jitender Singh as AVP & Business Head of Lee. These strategic hires are set to bolster ace turtle’s growth and further its goal of revolutionizing retail through technology.

Commenting on the appointments, Nitin Chhabra, CEO, ace turtle said, “We are excited to welcome Rahul, Agnes and Jitender to our leadership team. All of them bring extensive experience in retail and technology along with proven track records that will be invaluable as we continue to drive strong business growth. We continue to leverage our unique technology-driven operating model to launch new brands and scale the business of existing brands across India strengthening our position in the Indian retail industry and delivering exceptional value to our customers.”

Rahul Rajan, Chief Business Officer – Retail will help drive growth across online and offline retail channels for all the fashion brands in ace turtle’s portfolio. He joins ace turtle with 15 years of experience, including seven years as a successful business operator and previously as a strategy and investment professional. Rahul’s expertise spans P&L management, strategy and business planning, business development and creating product and tech roadmaps. He joins ace turtle from Flipkart where he played a pivotal role in building new businesses in beauty, FMCG and fast fashion, and scaling complex multi-billion-dollar apparel businesses. He holds an MBA from IIM Mumbai.

Agnes Raja George joins ace turtle as AVP & Business Head of Wrangler and Central Planning. With close to 23 years of experience in the fashion retail industry, Agnes specializes in P&L management, brand building, marketing, inventory planning, cash flow management and supply chain management. He has a proven track record in managing brands across department stores, exclusive brand stores, online marketplaces, and multi-brand outlet trade in India. Before joining ace turtle, Agnes founded and scaled the women’s wear brand De Moza and held various leadership roles at Landmark Group India, Aditya Birla Fashion and Lifestyle.

Jitender Singh, AVP & Business Head of Lee, brings 22 years of experience across online and offline channels, and across sports & fitness, lifestyle, FMCG and consumer durable categories. He has a strong background in building and leading direct and matrix teams to drive sustainable business growth. Before joining ace turtle, Jitender was Senior Director at Myntra, where he significantly grew the HRX and Nautica brands. His previous experience includes roles at Decathlon, 3M, Café Coffee Day, and TTK Prestige.

Since 2023, ace turtle has expanded its leadership team significantly to enable rapid and sustainable growth as it continues to expand its licensed brands portfolio. The company is the exclusive licensee of iconic global denim brands Lee® and Wrangler®, globally renowned toy retail chain Toys“R”Us® and Babies“R”Us® and California-based casual wear brand Dockers® for India and other South Asian markets.

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Ashish Bhasin launches The Bhasin Consulting Group

Ashish Bhasin has announced the launch of The Bhasin Consulting Group. The Bhasin Consulting Group will provide top-level business and leadership mentoring for founders, chief executive officers, and company boards to help turbo charge their business growth, both organically and through mergers and acquisitions.

 It will endeavor to create Advertising and Media entrepreneurs and businessmen and businesswomen of global standards, a much-needed skill in these times of rapid transformation.  

The Bhasin Consulting Group will only work with the senior-most leaders in select businesses with long-term growth potential. They will provide mentorship through a long-term relationship, which could include taking a significant minority stake in mentored businesses, in keeping with the ‘skin-in-the-game philosophy’ of Ashish Bhasin, Founder, The Bhasin Consulting Group.In the initial phase, the consulting and mentorship will be targeted towards select growth-oriented young companies operating in the advertising, marketing services, digital and media space, across geographies.

Bhasin said, “There is a huge need for business and leadership mentoring for CEOs, CXOs and founders in young and growing companies with ambition. Often while these leaders have good domain expertise, many in the advertising, marketing services, digital and media industry lack top-class business, entrepreneurship and leadership experience which is essential to navigate, transform and grow in today’s fast-changing, complex business environment and for maximizing shareholder value. Building and integrating top-performing teams and getting them to work with a common goal and vision, to deliver profitability and business success in complex situations is what I have accomplished over the past 35 years. I have had the opportunity to successfully lead a team of 14,000 people across 18 countries, in diverse businesses and to drive organic growth as well as successfully complete 24 acquisitions across India and APAC. Many of my mentees today have founded or lead large organisations. The Bhasin Consulting Group will provide the benefit of that experience and introduce world-class best practices in this area, for the first time in India.”Bhasin will continue his role as Co-Founder and Advisor RD&X Network.

The Bhasin Consulting Group will be announcing another mentee company shortly.

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