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E Prasanna Kumar

Captain · DISC type DS
South Asia Head of Creative, Insights Division of Kantar at Kantar
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

E Prasanna Kumar is the South Asia Head of Creative for Kantars Insights Division, specializing in consumer insight-led communication and brand management. With a background including an MBA and a BE, he focuses on advertising effectiveness in a fragmented media landscape. Colleagues describe him as a fiercely creative, innovative, and passionate researcher.

Prasanna is an expert on what makes advertising effective, emphasizing that creative content must drive business results. He is a published author on topics like festive advertising and believes in understanding diverse consumer contexts, from metropolitan areas to rural markets, to build true brand meaning and impact.

Unique fact: A recommender described him as an "F1 driver, who is as much about speed and acceleration as about the mechanics and nuts & bolts. "

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Current Role
South Asia Head of Creative, Insights Division of Kantar
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Personality Overview

How E shows up

Planner & Achiever
Decisive But Calm
Output-Driven

Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them. They exhibit a rare combination of being result-oriented but patient at the same time. They might take some time to make their mind up but once they do, they don't change it easily.

Priorities

Topics E cares about

Creative Effectiveness
He advocates that truly creative ads are the ones that are effective, and this journey starts by including consumers in the pre-testing process to ensure impact.
Digital Ad Strategy
He notes that with fragmented media, brands can't just copy TV ads to digital; they must hook consumers within the first 3-4 seconds to be successful.
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Career

Work history

8-2014
South Asia Head of Creative, Insights Division of Kantar
Kantar
1-2013 - 7-2014
Group Account Director
Millward Brown
8-2009 - 12-2012
Group Account Director
Millward Brown
9-2007 - 8-2009
Account Director
Millward Brown
Senior Manager
Ugam Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India
In the press

Media appearances

Skipped Another Ad? Kantar's Prasanna Kumar Explains Why Most Ads Don't Make the Cut. Featured in Marketing Mind
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Like Dal, Great Indian Advertising Is Familiar, Emotional and Deeply Rooted in Memory and Meaning – Kantar India. Featured in Media News 4U
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Education
1996 - 1998
MBA
Bharathidasan Institute of Management Tiruchirapalli
1992 - 1996
BE
Anna University Chennai
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Dominance (D)

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