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Nilesh Pritam has joined Veeam Software as its Director of Corporate Communications for Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, he oversees the company’s regional communications activities, including media relations, executive communications, employee engagement and analyst relations.

Nilesh spent more than 15 years at Verizon, most recently as Head of Corporate Communications, Asia Pacific. He has also held senior communications roles at Ogilvy and Tandberg. 

Global cleaning technology company, BISSELL, has tapped creative communications agency, History Will Be Kind (HWBK), to join its first ANZ agency village, as the company looks to strengthen its brand and marketing strategy for the year ahead.

HWBK will lead editorial as the brand's retained PR agency, while Nunn Media will spearhead BVOD and SVOD media strategy and buying, and Hellions will lead creative. The group joins an existing roster of specialist partners, including Jellyfish, Frontier Australia, Andzen, and Digital Next.

The agency village has been tasked with driving authentic differentiation to strengthen brand growth, deepen cultural relevance, and position BISSELL as a category leader across ANZ.

BISSELL's Senior Manager, Marketing Oceania, Nathan Dixon, said: "We've had long-standing relationships with some of our agency partners, but have been intentionally building out our full village with a focus on engaging best-in-class specialists who can collaborate and complement our holistic marketing efforts. It's a big year for BISSELL and this agency village will help us take the brand to new heights in this market."

History Will Be Kind's Managing Director, Edwina Brook, said: "BISSELL is an iconic brand with boundless opportunities, making it a brilliant match for our integrated comms capabilities and ability to infiltrate culture with intent and purpose. We work with some of the world’s most recognised brands operating in increasingly competitive respective markets. We love the creative and strategic challenge of helping these brands find authentic connection with audiences based on differentiations they actually care about." 

Shehana Darda-Teixeira has taken up a new opportunity as Head of Government Relations and Communications at Charles Sturt University. She made the move after close to four years as Executive Director, Communications & Engagement within the NSW state government, initially at the Western Parkland City Authority before moving to the NSW Reconstruction Authority.

Shehana brings higher education experience from her time as Director, Media and Public Relations at the University of Sydney. Prior to that, she was Deputy Chief of Staff to Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney, with responsibility for communications and media, and had worked for a number of ministers in the former Labor government as Press Secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff.