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title: "Hardik Foflia - Creative Strategy Director in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Hardik Foflia, Brand Strategist | AI Enablement Strategist | Strategy @ Omnicom | Ex-Ogilvy | Ex-McCann based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, gemini, and notebooklm."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/hardik-foflia/share-image"
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# Hardik Foflia on Tal

## Headline

Brand Strategist \| AI Enablement Strategist \| Strategy @ Omnicom \| Ex\-Ogilvy \| Ex\-McCann

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

gemini

notebooklm

openai

ChatGPT

Microsoft Copilot

## Work experience

Creative Strategy Director at Omnicom Global Solutions, Jun 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Brand Planning Director at FCB Ulka, Jun 2024 \- Jun 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Strategic Planning for: 1\.\) ITC Biscuits\- Sunfeast Biscuits Portfolio\- Dark Fantasy, Bounce, Farmlite, Marie Light, etc\. 2\.\) Indo\-Nissin\- Instant Noodles\- Top Ramen & Cup Noodles, 3\.\) Wagh Bakri\- India's 3rd Largest Packaged Tea Brand 4\.\) Bhima Jewels\- Regional Jewelry Brand 5\.\) New Business Pitches\- Converted 2 out of 3 new businesses

Visiting Faculty at MICA \| The School of Ideas, Aug 2023 \- Aug 2023 · 1 mo, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Course\- Creative Brief Writing Workshop Conducted a workshop for the CCC course \(Crafting Creative Communications\) on writing and decoding a Creative Brief\.

Senior Planning Director at Ogilvy, Jul 2023 \- May 2024 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Strategic Planning for: 1\.\) Fortune Foods\- Staple Foods & Kitchen Ingredients, India's No\.1 Edible Oil Brand 2\.\) ITC Sunfeast YiPPee\!\- Instant noodles & snacks 3\.\) Max Fashion\- India's Largest Value Fashion Brand 4\.\) Titan Watches\- India's largest watch manufacturer 5\.\) Reliance Biscuits\- Biscuits & Cookies 6\.\) Agoda\- Online Travel Agency 7\.\) Reliance Centro\- Premium Fashion Retailer 8\.\) The Hindu\- English Print Publication & an Indian newspaper on record 9\.\) Wipro Glucovita\- Glucose Energy Supplement 10\.\) New Business Pitches\- Converted 4 out of 5 new businesses Part of the agency's EFFIE India 2022 & 2023 efforts which led its 'Agency of the Year' award in 2022\. Honors & Awards 1\.\) Planner of the Year\- 2023, Ogilvy All Stars Awards 2\.\) Bronze\- EFFIE India 2023\- Regional\- Fortune Kachi Ghani Mustard Oil

Planning Director at Ogilvy, Jan 2022 \- Jul 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Planner at McCann Worldgroup, Apr 2020 \- Dec 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Strategic Planning for: 1\.\) ITC Aashirvaad\- Staple Food & Kitchen Ingredients, India's No\.1 Atta \(Wheat Flour\) Brand 2\.\) TVS Motors\- Apache, A Made\-in\-India Premium Racing Bike 3\.\) Britannia Industries\- Premium Biscuits & Dairy, India's oldest Biscuit Brand 4\.\) Furlenco\- Online Rental & Subscription Furniture Platform 5\.\) Ujjivan\- Small Finance Bank 6\.\) Qualcomm Snapdragon\- World's Leading Wireless Technology Innovator & Smartphone Chipset Maker 7\.\) New Business Pitches Part of the agency's EFFIE India 2021 efforts which led its 4th consecutive 'Agency of the Year' award\. Honors & Awards 1\.\) Bronze\- EFFIE India 2021\- B2B\- Udaan 2\.\) Bronze\- EFFIE India 2021\- New Product/Service\- Udaan 3\.\) Bronze\- EFFIE India 2021\- Food\- ITC Aashirvaad Multigrain Atta 4\.\) Bronze\- EFFIE India 2021\- The Disruptive Differentiators Award\- ITC Aashirvaad Multigrain Atta 5\.\) Bronze\- EFFIE India 2021\- Food\- ITC Aashirvaad Atta 6\.\) Bronze\- EFFIE India 2021\- Experiential Marketing/Brand Experience\- ITC Aashirvaad Atta

Strategic Planning Associate at Rediffusion Brand Solutions Pvt Ltd, Jun 2018 \- Apr 2020 · 1 y 10 mo, Mumbai

Management Trainee\- Strategy at Madison communication, Apr 2017 \- May 2018 · 1 y 1 mo, Bangalore

## Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Management\- Communications \(PGDM\-C\), Advertising, MICA \| The School of Ideas

Bachelor of Business Management \(B\.B\.M\.\), Marketing/Marketing Management, General, Jain University\- Center for Management Studies

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