Kantar's Joshy Named Head of Creative in Australia

Kantar has promoted long-time employee Irene Joshy to Head of Creative, leading its Creative Domain in Australia. She relocates from Singapore to Melbourne to take up the post.

Joshy (pictured) joins with more than eighteen years' experience across the wider Kantar group. She began her career at IMRB (now Kantar) in 2002, before moving to a consumer insights role at Colgate Palmolive, and then on to Nielsen as a Director. She then spent nearly three years as VP at TNS Global (now also part of Kantar), then she worked at TNS AsiaPac, latterly as Regional Director, leading cultural and consumer insights and spearheading the Digital Qualitative practice across the region. She began her career teaching social anthropology and social research at the University of Mumbai.

Jon Foged, Kantar's MD, Insights - Australia and New Zealand, comments: 'We are thrilled to have Irene join us in Australia. Her most recent work in creative and advertising across Asia Pacific has informed powerful client strategies through the lens of culture and consumer insights and into early-stage creative development. Irene is hugely client centric, tenacious, has a strong willingness to support both our people and clients, and brings a high dose of energy to our business.'

Web site: www.kantaraustralia.com .