Movers And Shakers Of The Week [11 September – 16 September]

iCubesWire Appoints Sabareesh Moorthy As Head-RDX Sales And Trading Desk

iCubesWire, one of the leading digital marketing solution and concept provider, has appointed Sabareesh Moorthy as the Head- RDX Sales & Trading Desk at their Mumbai office. He will head the agency account sales in the West region and set up a new initiative in the trading desk for programmatic advertising.

Sabareesh brings with him an industry experience of more than 12 years. Prior to joining iCubesWire, Sabareesh was associated with Publicis Media as Associate Director and Group Head of Advertising Operations, where he was accountable for programmatic technology, campaign management and optimisation and advertising operations.

He has also worked with Cartrade.com as Assistant General Manager – Media Sales, Madhouse as Group Head – Operations, Automotive Exchange Private Limited as Ad Operations Manager and other organisations like Yahoo India, Tribal DDB India, Mindshare, etc.

At iCubesWire, he will work towards expanding and strengthening the business while being closely associated with Sahil Chopra, CEO and Aditya Singh, COO.

pi Ventures Appoints Abishek Surendran As A Partner

pi Ventures has appointed Abishek Surendran as a full-time Partner at the AI, ML and IoT focused early stage venture fund. Abishek will be involved in strategy, deal flow and mentoring portfolio companies.

Abishek has been an early stage technology investor with multiple years of experience investing in frontier tech. In his most recent stint, he led AI investments at Exfinity Venture Partners as part of the founding team. Some of the investments that he led and was on board/ observer are Mad Street Den, Yobi.ai, iQlect, Locus, MarianaIQ and Absentia. He also supported the management teams of 10+ startups of Exfinity portfolio in various aspects of fundraising, strategy, hiring, etc.

Prior to this, he led angel investments at Unilazer Ventures, the PE arm of the family office of Indian media industry veteran Ronnie Screwvala, where he managed a portfolio of eight companies. He also has had a brief stint as an investment banker at Intellecap and as a software developer in TCS. Abishek is an Electronics Engineer from Mumbai University and an MBA from IIM-Bangalore.

Stay tuned for the next movers and shakers of the week.