Jitender Dabbas, the current CEO of Cheil X and Group CSO, Cheil SWA is set to exit the company and join BBDO Group India under Omnicom Advertising India as CEO. The development comes as Omnicom Advertising India navigates a leadership restructure in light of the global merger between Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group (IPG) in December 2025. Under the current structure BBDO Group India is now made up of BBDO India, Ulka and Mudra.
Cheil has confirmed his exit.
Prior to his appointment at Cheil X, Jitender Dabas served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy Officer McCann Worldgroup.
Dabas started his career with Draft FCB Ulka (now known as FCB Ulka) and has close to 25 years of experience in the advertising industry having worked with brands such as Pepsi Foods, Nokia, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Hero Honda, General Motors, Mastercard and Sony, among others. An engineering student from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, Dabas has also worked at J Walter Thompson (JWT) and Grey Worldwide India Pvt Ltd but spent a big part of his career, more than a decade at McCann leading the strategy for McCann Worldgroup companies in India - McCann, McCann Health, MRM/McCann, Momentum Worldwide.
This is a developing story more details awaited.
