Vaasu Gavarasana to head Dentsu Communications' Bengaluru operations
21 May 2009
Vaasu Gavarasana has joined Dentsu Communications as the head of Bengaluru operations. Gavarasana will also spearhead the Toyota business for the Indian market.
Before this, Gavarasana had worked with was McCann Erickson, Singapore, where he was the senior regional business director. He managed the Johnson & Johnson APAC consumer brands.
Gavarasana has been in the advertising industry for 20 years and has core expertise in marketing communications. He started his career in 1990 as an intern in Ogilvy Direct. In 1991, he moved to Lintas Bangalore (now Lowe Lintas). Three years later, he joined Communicate IT, a PR and marketing communications firm. In 1995, he moved to Lintas Mumbai (now Lowe Lintas) as a regional account manager and in 1998, he joined TBWA Mumbai.
Some of the companies he has worked closely with are Unilever, Nestlé, MasterCard, Lufthansa, Boots Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson.