#e4mBreaking: Ashish Chakravarty resigns from full-time role as ED & India Head of Creative, McCann

Ashish Chakravarty steps down from his full-time role at McCann Worldgroup India, expected to stay on as a Consultant

by Neeta Nair
Published: Aug 14, 2025 7:02 PM | 2 min read

As per highly placed sources, one of the most awarded creative leaders from the industry, Ashish Chakravarty, has decided to move on from his full-time role at McCann Worldgroup. Chakravarty was the Executive Director and Head of Creative, India. IMPACT has also learned that Chakravarty might continue to associate with McCann in the capacity of a Consultant. Similarly, there appears to be a new arrangement at McCann with creative leaders like Pradyumna Chauhan and Sagar Kapoor being brought on board as consultants, who will be working on important projects.

Chakravarty was reporting directly to Prasoon Joshi, Chairman McCann Asia Pacific & CEO & CCO McCann Worldgroup India, and had rejoined McCann Worldgroup in 2018.

Confirming the development, Jyoti Mahendru, Chief Talent Officer, McCann Worldgroup India told IMPACT, “McCann is undertaking a decisive transformation to strengthen and future-proof its creative talent pool. The organisation has rolled out strategic structural enhancements, attracting some of the industry’s most coveted creative leaders like Pradyumna Chauhan and Sagar Kapoor to begin their association. As part of this evolution, it has been mutually agreed with Ashish Chakravarty to redefine his role, to contribute in a more productive capacity."

IMPACT also reached out to Chakravarty for a comment but didn’t get a response till the time of filing the story.

Chakravarty, prior to his role at McCann, was the Chief Creative Officer of WPP’s Contract, overseeing creative output of Contract Advertising, iContract, Designsutra, and Core Consulting. In his earlier stint at McCann India, he closely worked with Prasoon Joshi and helped build McCann Delhi as one of the top leading operations in Delhi market.

Ashish has worked on some of the biggest global brands, and won more than 400 national and international awards across categories on top shows like One show, Cannes, Clio, Ad-fest, Spikes Asia among others. He has also served as jury/ jury chair, at various advertising awards including, Clio, Spikes, Ad-fest, Effies, besides the top Indian award shows.

Winner of several national and international awards, he has also consistently been part of jury at various advertising awards.