Founding Partner, The Womb
Kawal has been a lifelong planner. His last stint before he co-founded The Womb in 2015 was as head of strategy for Ogilvy India. He's the first-ever IPA gold winner from India - for his work on Cadbury Dairy Milk in 2012. That paper had also won the award for the ‘best use of insight’.
The Womb, his agency, has become the No.1 Independent Agency in Asia (Asian Effies – 2022), and among the top 3 agencies in Asia (Asian Effies – 2022).
The Womb has to its credit one of the most celebrated innovations in India – Saregama Carvaan. The innovation and communications work on Carvaan won the agency the 'world's most effective campaign' of the year award from WARC in 2019. Carvaan was also voted the best innovation of the year by India’s influential business daily, The Economic Times.
Kawal has previously spoken at Cannes and has been a juror/speaker at many marquee award platforms around the world.
In an industry of ‘yesses’, The Womb has for the last 8 years said no to pitches, and done reasonably well for itself. Perhaps there is indeed something called the lure of the forbidden fruit.
When not working, he loves to spend time with his pets...a Taylor semi-acoustic, and Loki, the gentlest German Shepherd you have never met.