Rediffusion Y&R appoints Navonil Chatterjee as Chief Strategy Officer

Rediffusion Y&R has appointed Navonil Chatterjee as its Chief Strategy Officer. Navonil joins the group from JWT where he worked for 15 years. He will be reporting to Dhunji S. Wadia, President, Rediffusion Y&R

Featured in the Hong Kong based Media magazine as one of Asia’s Top 10 Young Account Planners in 2006. 

Navonil has won several national and international marketing effectiveness awards, including Golds, silvers and bronzes in Effies, Gold in New York AME, Gold in PMAA, silver and bronze in Asian Marketing Effectiveness Awards, among others.

With over 17 years of experience in advertising, Navonil has headed the planning function across clients like Hindustan Unilever, Levi’ s, Pepsi, Godrej, Madura Garments, ITC, United Spirits Limited (USL), United Breweries (UB), ING Bank and Landmark Group to name a few.

But the one brand that is perhaps closest to his heart is Nike, where he has played a key role ever since he pitched for it successfully at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore in 2005.
A postgraduate from MICA and a graduate in English Honors from St.Xavier’s College, Kolkata, Navonil is also an occasional faculty at ISB Hyderabad, IIM Bangalore and IIM Indore.