Leo Burnett Group has appointed Kalyan Ram Challapalli as account planning director in Singapore.
Challapalli was most recently with TBWA India where he was the planning head for the Mumbai office and the national head of Disruption in India.
With experience on both the agency and client sides, Challapalli also had a stint with Diageo before joining JWT (Contract) India as a planning director.
In his new role at Leo Burnett, Challapalli will report to Saurabh Varma, chief strategy officer in Singapore. His duties will cover UOB among other accounts.
