MullenLowe Lintas announces leadership changes in Bangalore offices

Siddhartha Roy (on the left) was named Bangalore branch head, Mullen Lintas and Kishore Subramanian moves to Lowe Lintas Bangalore. The appointments are effective immediately.

The Bangalore offices of Mullen Lintas and Lowe Lintas have recently witnessed new leadership appointments. Kishore Subramanian, who successfully led Mullen Lintas’ agency office for over 4 years, has passed the baton to Siddhartha Roy.

Siddhartha Roy has been entrusted to take up the responsibilities in the leadership role as the Bangalore office branch head. With a career spanning over two decades, he has worked with multiple network agencies such as Ogilvy, Everest Y&R and Publicis Ambience. As COO, he helmed the operations of Happy Creative - scaling it up to its eventual merger with the Dentsu Aegis Network India group as Happy McGarryBowen. His extensive experience includes working on brands such as Cadbury, ITC, Vodafone, Flipkart, Myntra, Ola, Srilanka Telecom, US Aid, Nestle, Coca Cola, Himalaya, etc. He played strategy lead at 82.5 Communications before moving to Mullen Lintas.

Speaking on his appointment, Roy says, "A prodigious talent stepping out of the shadow of its illustrious ‘big brother’ and asserting its own, unique individuality – that’s Mullen Lintas for me. And I wanted to be a part of this exciting & daunting journey."

Kishore Subramanian has been the branch head at the Bangalore office of Mullen Lintas since inception four years ago. Under his leadership, the agency added key businesses like Himalaya Face Care, Ruosh, Fossil, Karur Vysya Bank, Quikr and Cleartrip. With a career spanning over 23 years, Kishore has been with the Lintas group for over 17 years. During his previous stints with Lowe Lintas where, over a period of twelve years across Mumbai and Bangalore, Kishore worked on exciting brands like Britannia, Tanishq, Fastrack, and Kissan both as an account person and as a strategic planner. He will now be moving to Lowe Lintas as its Bangalore office’s planning head.

Speaking about his move to Lowe Lintas, Kishore Subramanian says, “Being a part of the founding team of Mullen Lintas was truly challenging and a thoroughly satisfying experience and now looking forward, the planning mandate at Lowe Lintas Bangalore seems an equally exciting and challenging opportunity.”

Speaking about the changes, Virat Tandon, Group CEO, MullenLowe Lintas Group says "I am delighted to welcome Sid to Mullen Lintas. In him, we found the skills to hyper-bundle the group’s services and give unfair share of attention to our brands. I was truly impressed by his entrepreneurial spirit and a future facing solutions mindset. I am positive that Mullen Lintas Bangalore has an exciting future under his leadership. I would also like to congratulate Kishore for giving Mullen Lintas Bangalore a formidable start by way of the brands and team he put together. Kishore is a planner at heart and that’s what he wanted to get back to. So, he takes over as the Planning Head for Lowe Lintas South. I am certain that he will bring his magic to the fabulous brands that Lowe Lintas Bangalore has and further develop the already strong planning product."