Award winning creative, Sachin Talwalkar is the Chief Creative Officer at Havas Life, the health and wellness communications agency from Havas Group India.

In his over 20 years of industry experience, Sachin has worked across geographies in Europe, Middle East, South East Asia & Asia Pacific with network agencies, and through his own consultancy.

Sachin began his career in India and soon moved to Germany to work with BBDO Dusseldorf in Germany as an Art Director. He stayed in Europe for a decade to work with agencies like DDB Düsseldorf & Saatchi & Saatchi in Milan before moving on to London, and then back to Asia to run agencies like Contract/JWT New Delhi, Commonwealth in Asia Pacific and Edelman in the South Asia, Middle East and Africa. He was last running his own consultancy that serviced clients in South East Asia and Europe.

His work has been recognized by major awards, including Spikes Asia, Ad Club Germany, Mobius, Eurobest, Epica, Cresta, NY Festival, Clio, Montreux Ad Festival, Ad Club Austria, Econ Awards, FAB Awards and LIAA.

In 2016, Talwalkar took a break from advertising to pursue film making by launching Cosmic Panda Films, where he wrote and directed his first short film, ‘To Jod’ (That Pair) that was featured at Cannes Films Festival 2016. He is also a commercial director.

Sachin believes in the creating brand narratives that are culturally rooted and inspired by real, human insight.