Asiya Bakht
Mar 29, 2010

Aegis Media's regional director of digital operations Arun Kumar to leave

SINGAPORE - Arun Kumar (pictured), the director of digital operations at Aegis Media Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore, is to leave the company.

Arun Kumar  director of digital operations Aegis Media Asia Pacific Singapore
Arun Kumar director of digital operations Aegis Media Asia Pacific Singapore
 Kumar, who was previously the CEO of Carat Singapore was promoted to a regional role last year in August.  He had taken over the CEO role in 2008 from Richard Leong who had left the agency to join join Lowe as the regional head of business development.  He was replaced by Anupriya Acharya, the former president of The Media Edge last year.

Lee Stephens, the regional director of digital at Aegis Media confirmed the news and said, "Arun has made a great contribution to our business and we wish him the best in his new role. Isobar and iProspect continue to invest heavily in the region and Arun was a great contributor to the expansion of our digital operations. His role is not being replaced, instead Aegis have appointed Peter Hunter as head of Search with myself appointed as head of all digital operations in the region last October."

Last year Aegis Media had appointed Lee Stephens as regional digital director for the group in Asia-Pacific. This new role was in addition to his other position as CEO Aegis Media Pacific. 

This week also the sees relocation of Patrick Stahle, who is leaving his role as CEO of Aegis Media Asia-Pacific to take up a non-executive career. He has been replaced by Nick Waters, previously CEO EMEA at Mindshare, who has moved to Singapore to take on the official duties from 1st April. Stahle has been in the role since 2006.
 

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