Mumbai: Fixcraft appointed Vivek Sharma as marketing advisor to accelerate the company’s growth through marketing excellence and brand building.
Sharma has been a part of the industry for 32 years. He brings on board a unique experience of business and brand development across FMCG, healthcare, lighting, consumer durables and home improvement, encompassing B2C, B2B and B2G.
For seven years, Sharma served as a chief marketing officer at Pidilite. During his long stint with Pidilite, he was responsible for marketing planning, implementation and brand development for all divisions, corporate brand, innovation and marketing talent development across the organisation.
He was also the vice president Indian sub-continent at Philips India Ltd. He held many senior positions across various organisations such as Cadbury (now Mondelez), Ogilvy advertising and MIRC electronics (ONIDA).
According to a media report, Sharma said, “Fixcraft is looking at a huge untapped opportunity for quality and reliable car repair and service that exists between authorized workshops and neighbourhood garages. I see here a vacant space to build a trusted brand that takes full accountability for its service and creates consumer delight. The journey in building the business and brand Fixcraft with the young team is surely going to be exciting.”
Sharma regularly teaches and delivers marketing lectures at premier B schools like IIMs, ISB and SPJIMR. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore and Bachelor of Technology from Indian School of Mines (now IIT, Dhanbad).
“We at Fixcraft are building a reliable brand which is accountable for the service delivery to consumers by owning the end-to-end execution of repair in company owned service centers. With Vivek joining hands with us as a marketing advisor, we are sure that we will be able to take this promise to all consumers PAN India in a very effective manner and our brand position will help us service more and more consumers who are looking for a trustworthy service provider," Vivek Sharma, Founder and CEO Fixcraft said in the media report.
