Deepak Kohli Elevated To Senior Director – Marketing & Communications At Chandigarh University
CE DESK 
Deepak Kohli has been elevated to Senior Director – Marketing & Communications at Chandigarh University. His professional background spans education marketing, advertising, brand strategy and integrated communications.
Kohli brings more than 18 years of experience across agency and in-house roles. He has worked with Leo Burnett, McCann Worldgroup, J. Walter Thompson and FCB Ulka, handling brands across consumer goods, automotive, technology and education.
His education-sector experience includes serving as Director – Marketing and Communications at Alliance University from May 2023 to February 2024. There, he developed short- and long-term marketing objectives and communication strategies for internal and external audiences across the university’s schools.
Before that, Kohli headed Marketing & Communications at Pathways Group of Schools from May 2020 to May 2023. His responsibilities included brand awareness, audience engagement, outreach budgets and market analysis across print, electronic, social and digital channels.
On the agency side, he served as Associate Vice President at Leo Burnett, working on California Almonds. At McCann Worldgroup, his portfolio included General Motors, Paytm, Walmart, Shree and Bangur Cement, and government-linked initiatives. His work covered brand communication, retail campaigns and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Earlier roles at J. Walter Thompson and FCB Ulka involved campaigns and product launches for Hero MotoCorp, Videocon, Santoor and Micromax, among other brands. This experience gives him a cross-category foundation in consumer research, positioning and campaign execution.
