BBH India has announced a new addition to their leadership structure by bringing in Arvind Krishnan as managing director. Krishnan comes back to BBH India after a stint at BBH London where he was Team Director, managing a diverse portfolio of Unilever, Diageo and other brands.

Krishnan will join the team of Subhash Kamath, CEO and Managing Partner, and Russell Barrett, CCO and Managing Partner, along with Sanjay Sharma, Head of Planning, Puneet Kapoor, Executive Creative Director and Rishit Mehta, Finance Director, to form the core leadership team at BBH India. Krishnan will report to Subhash Kamath.

On his appointment, Subhash Kamath said, ``Krishnan was one of our first recruits at BBH India.'' Added Gwyn Jones, Global CEO, ``It is great for us to be able to grow management from within and also develop talent for the future by moving from office to office like this.''

In a statement, Arvind Krishnan added that the experience working on global brands and helping them navigate through different markets would hold him in good stead. ``It has taught me the value of simplicity. Simplicity, that allows ideas to stretch and flex across geographies. The opportunity to apply this and create market moving work at home is exciting,'' he added.

BBH is a creative network wholly owned by the Publicis Groupe.

amritanair.ghaswalla@thehindu.co.in