

As Chief Client Officer & Office Head for West, North & East @ Wavemaker | GroupM India, Shekhar is championing business operations, product delivery across digital and offline and talent growth. Shekhar takes a lot of pride in hands-on client development and delight. In partnership with his team has Incubated some of the most noteworthy work in the industry across clients like Mondelez, L'Oreal, Reckitt, Netflix, Vi (Vodafone Idea), Dream11, First Cry, Redbull and many more.
Under his leadership, Wavemaker India is the only media agency in the world to win Cannes Titanium (`22) and Wavemaker Mumbai has been ranked #1 on the effectiveness list globally by WARC ('23).
His team has been instrumental in powering Wavemaker India as the Agency of the year at MMG (`22) & EMVIES India in 2022, 2023 & 2024
Previously, as COO - Madison Media, he had the opportunity to work with marquee clients like - Marico, Asian Paints, Godrej and McDonald's. Executed large scale business transformation projects, developed cross-media & digital toolkit for the agency, incubated and managed a hybrid model with digital creative & media across clienteles that resulted in a significant shift in agency vision and scale-up of revenue.
With over 1000+ Indian & global awards, one of the most awarded media agency professional for the work done across clients.