Isobar, part of Dentsu Aegis Network, has hired Vikalp Tandon as sr. VP, data & technology. In this newly created global role, he will be based in Isobar’s Boston office and report to Jean Lin, Isobar’s global CEO. Tandon will be responsible for expanding Isobar’s data and technology consulting offering globally by working closely with the multi-disciplinary teams across Isobar’s 45 markets, and with the proficient technology consulting teams at Isobar US, APAC, Brazil and EMEA.
Tandon joins from Sapient.Razorfish where he was VP and global strategy lead, driving the growth and development of Sapient’s platform services and delivering technology solutions for clients.
Now Tandon is tasked with connecting the strong and growing technology and commerce community at Isobar while leveraging the agency’s global technology partnership relationships. This will further enable Isobar to deliver digital transformation solutions for global clients that are data-led and integrated. In the last 24 months, Isobar has made five scaled acquisitions to boost its technology and commerce credentials, bringing 1200 people in this area into the global agency, and strengthening its global partnership with Adobe, Salesforce, SAP hybris, Google, Microsoft and more.
Tandon has over 15 years of experience in global technical design and development, delivering multiple large scale, multi-market technology products, consulting complex technical solutions and establishing and working with offshore delivery teams. He holds an Executive MBA in Strategy and Innovation from MIT Sloan School of Management and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology, India.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More