Kartik Smetacek and Nikhil Panjwani has joined Publicis Ambience as senior creative director and Nikhil Panjwani as associate creative director.
Kartik Smetacek joined this week after a one year stint at Contract, where he worked on DNA Supplements and Cadbury Crunch. Prior to that, he spent nearly seven years with Rediffusion DY&R, where he worked on Colgate, Franklin Templeton and Taj Hotels. He has also worked on Airtel.
Nikhil Panjwani, who worked at Rediffusion DY&R at the beginning of his career, joined a week ago. He has also worked with Leo Burnett and Ideas @ work. His last stint was with Young & Rubicam Kuala Lumpur as creative group head on accounts such as Colgate and OCBC Bank.
Panjwani won a silver Radio Lion for Colgate at this year’s International Advertising Festival at Cannes. Other brands that he has worked on include Ceat, Reliance, the launch of BigAdda and Taj.