Bhupal Ramnathkar
Founder and Managing Director
After securing a gold medal from the JJ School of Arts in, Mumbai, B Ramnathkar began his career in 1983 with Enterprise Advertising, one of the leading creative agencies in India.
He went on to work with DDB Needham in Dubai, and then with Mudra DDB and Leo Burnett, both in Mumbai, before returning to Enterprise Advertising in 1998.
B Ramnathkar has amassed around 250 national and 50 international awards, harvested from the Cannes Lions, Clio, London International and New York Festivals and The Asia Pacific Adfest.
He was the first Indian judge of the Outdoor Category at Cannes in 2006, and went on to judge the Design Category at Cannes in 2013.
Ramnathkar is the Founder & Managing Director and can be contacted at b.ramnathkar@sh007.global.temp.domains
Deven Sansare
Executive Creative Director
Deven is a bi-lingual advertising copywriter and creative director whose career spans 33 years and agencies like Contract Advertising, Everest Advertising, Havas Worldwide, and Umbrella Design, before co-founding his own advertising and design firm, FWC. He returned to Umbrella in January 2020.
His experience includes Indian and multinational brands from categories as diverse as FMCG, BFSI, Hospitality, Fashion, Healthcare, Automotive, Retail, E-commerce, IT, Real Estate, Media and Agriculture.
His advertising work has won all major awards in India, and has received recognition at The One Show, Communication Arts Guild, New York Festivals and Promax BDA, NYC.
Deven’s short fiction has been published by Penguin in India, has won the Grand Prize in the Shires Press Short Story Competition in the US, and has been long listed in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. A children’s animation series researched and written by him has been produced by the Children’s Film Society (CFSI), India and is currently streaming on Netflix.
Kartik Ramnathkar
Director – Identity in Motion
Kartik brings to Umbrella Design a vital function that is at the core of our beliefs.
Design moves with the times. With the advent of digital media, brand identity is now easier to prorogate, cheaper to promote and accessible to more people than before. There is also an important constituent.
Brand identities are now digital, available on screens, rather than on paper. Every TV, laptop and mobile phone is now an opportunity. Logos can escape the constraints of print and be livelier. They can dance. They can sing. They can enthuse, stimulate, animate the mind as well as they do, visually. They can communicate so much more than they could before.
In Kartik, we find a seasoned film director who is trained in the art of branding and communication. His narrative thinking combined with his visual style bring a new direction to the next generation of design.
