Current Global's Shashikant Someshwar first Indian to head APAC business operations for the firm

Current Global, an Interpublic Group agency, recently announced a round of senior appointments to its Asia Pacific leadership team.

 Shashikant Someshwar takes on pan-regional responsibilities as senior vice president, business operations, Asia Pacific, in addition to his role as managing director, India. This makes Someshwar the first Indian to occupy an APAC operations leadership role at Current Global. Current Global is a mid-sized global agency formed by the merger of Current Marketing and Creation in April 2019

The APAC region comprises countries such as China, Singapore, Indonesia; among others. It does not include the Australasia belt though.

Someshwar told PRmoment India that, "Part of my role is to work with the China leadership to shape the agency”. Current Global has also announced that Carrie Wu and Cherry Tao have started serving as co-market leads for China from November 1.

Wu and Tao will be driving market growth and leading the agency’s corporate and technology (Wu) and consumer marketing (Tao) practices in China.

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Someshwar has served as managing director of Current India for over five years, taking the firm from start-up to employing more than 50 team members in Mumbai and Delhi. The team recently added LinkedIn to its roster of clients, which also includes Castrol, Fossil Group, Hyatt, Merck, Omidyar Network, Medtronic, Seagate and Twitter.

“As Current Global reaches its 9-month mark, we are delighted to announce further expansion in China. With our footprint already spanning North America, the UK, Germany, Brazil and India, being able to service clients directly from this vital hub has been a strategic priority from the outset,” said George Coleman, joint-CEO, Current Global. “Carrie and Cherry bring experience working on complex global assignments, as well as deep local market knowledge. With Shashikant’s proven entrepreneurial skills supporting them in the region, we’re looking forward to growing another stronghold of our business.”