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Geetika Chadha Joins Cheil India To Run Influencer And Social

Ad Tribe! Bureau2 min read
Geetika Chadha, joining Cheil India as Associate Vice President for influencer and social after leading in-house content work at Reckitt

Geetika Chadha has joined Cheil India as Associate Vice President, Influencer and Social, moving across from the client side.

  • Role: Associate Vice President, Influencer and Social, Cheil India
  • Joins from: Reckitt, as Content Strategist and Creative Studio Lead
  • Earlier: Mindshare, including partner and senior director for Content Plus
  • Before that: Havas Worldwide, Iris Worldwide and Webchutney
  • Announced: in a post on LinkedIn

What The Geetika Chadha Appointment Brings

The Reckitt role is the interesting line. Leading an in-house creative studio means owning production volume, turnaround and cost as well as the idea, alongside real-time marketing programmes where the window for a decision is measured in hours.

The work there also covered platform-specific creative frameworks and sat alongside media and analytics teams assessing content performance. That is the unglamorous middle of social marketing, and it is where most agency content propositions quietly fail.

The Branded Content Years

Before Reckitt came Mindshare, with roles including partner and senior director for Content Plus, leading branded content initiatives, managing business operations and building content-led solutions for clients including PepsiCo, Meta, Volvo, Yum and Zomato.

That client list spans three different content problems: a beverage company buying culture, a platform buying credibility, and a delivery company buying speed. Running all three teaches a planner that branded content has no single template, whatever the deck says.

A Digital Agency Grounding

Earlier roles ran through Havas Worldwide as account director on Nokia's digital business, covering online product launches across owned, earned and paid media, Iris Worldwide as associate account director on Adidas, Shell and Coca-Cola, and Webchutney as account manager on MakeMyTrip, Ibibo, Microsoft and Pepsi.

Influencer and social is the discipline where the gap between what an agency promises and what a brand's own team can absorb is widest. Somebody who has sat on both sides of that gap is a reasonable person to put in charge of it.

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