Deepak Sharma, a media maestro with more than two decades of experience in media planning and buying, decided to quit his post last month with Starcom after spending 16 years with the media agency.

He joined Starcom in 2005 as Media Manager and last presented Starcom MediaVest Group as Managing Director, North.

Deepak helped Starcom to win several accounts like those of Dabur, OPPO, Realme, Luminous, Ola, Lenskart, Adda 52, Expedia, Mars Wrigley’s, Aircel, Make My trip.com, and Sun pharma.

In 2018, Starcom India conversed with the “Agency of the year” title for the very first time in the Starcom global network under his leadership in the north.

Whereas in 2020, he played an important role in engaging the Dabur company which opened up for pitch after four long years and he also led a logged off in Hero MotoCorp pitch which Publicis Media participated in and won.

While he has not decided on his next move he is thankful to Starcom for allowing him for the past 16 years to work with him.

Earlier joined Starcom, Deepak also worked across other agencies such as Dentsu and GroupM.

Deepak said, “In this phase of the journey I would like to thank Ravi Kiran and Malli formerly CEO of Starcom, and from a brand partnership standpoint that helped me immensely is Aircel and Dabur. Everyone in these two companies helped me transform. Anupriya Acharya formerly CEO of Publicis Media and now CEO Publicis Groupe trusted me and gave me the strength to perform. Apart from leadership, I am thankful rather indebted to the entire Starcom team that worked with me in the last 16 years.”