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Aditya Sunilkumar Moves From Havas India To Meta

Ad Tribe! Bureau2 min read
Aditya Sunilkumar, joining Meta as a creative director in Mumbai from Havas India

Aditya Sunilkumar has joined Meta as a creative director, based in Mumbai. The move takes effect in October 2026, after more than two years at Havas India.

  • New role: creative director at Meta, in Mumbai
  • Leaving: Havas India, where the role was executive creative director and head of digital, from July 2024 to October 2026
  • Before that: executive creative director at Creativeland Asia, August 2022 to July 2024
  • And before: senior creative director at The Glitch, March to August 2022
  • Earlier, abroad: Scholz and Friends in Hamburg from December 2017 to 2022, rising from copywriter to senior copywriter
  • Education: a master of professional communication in copywriting from Miami Ad School Europe, and a bachelor of media studies in audio visual production from Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication

Why Aditya Sunilkumar Is The Kind Of Hire Meta Keeps Making

Because the platform needs people who can make the advertising, not just sell the inventory. In-house creative at a technology company is largely about showing advertisers what the surface can do, which requires someone who has shipped work on it under a client's pressure rather than studied it.

A digital head's remit at a network agency is the closest training there is. It means arguing for formats, budgets and timelines against a traditional-first system, which is the same argument Meta's own creative teams make to the market.

What The Hamburg Years Add

Craft built outside the Indian system. Four years at a German agency as a copywriter is a different apprenticeship from the one most Indian creative directors have, and it tends to show in restraint rather than in scale.

What It Says About The Agency Side

That the drain continues upward. Executive creative director is a senior post, and when those move to platforms rather than to rival agencies, the loss to the network is not a person but a layer, and the layer is the one that was about to run a creative department.

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