Saurabh Saksena bids adieu to VML India

Delhi: Saurabh Saksena, President at VML India, has moved on. 

He was elevated to the role of President after WPP merged VMLY&R with Wunderman Thompson to form VML and appointed its long-time associate Babita Baruah as India CEO.

Before that, he was the CEO of VMLY&R.

In the past, Saksena was the President of Red Fuse Communications, India, the WPP agency that manages Colgate Palmolive.

He was also the Managing Director of JWT Malaysia in the past. Before moving to Kuala Lumpur, he was Chief Growth Officer at J Walter Thompson New Delhi. He spent close to a decade at JWT, having joined as Executive Business Director. 

Saksena started his career at Clarion Communications and went on to work at Ogilvy and DDB Mudra. He was also the publisher of the Mid-Day afternoon newspaper for two years.