Commercial Growth • Media • Data • Technology • AI

Strategy that converts into growth.

Siddhartha Singh is a commercial growth and marketing leader with 20+ years across APAC, EMEA and global markets, bringing strategy, media, data, technology and AI teams into integrated commercial solutions for multinational clients.

20+Years across agency, client and AdTech
17/23Pitch wins led at MediaCom
950%YOY transaction growth at Travelocity India
$170MGlobal SK-II consolidation stewardship
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Operating Edge

Built for complex growth.

The profile is strongest where growth cannot be solved by one discipline. Sid’s resume positions him as a bridge between agency stewardship, AdTech partnerships, client-side growth, executive workshops and AI-enabled marketing transformation.

Interactive Career Path

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A compressed executive arc from performance marketing roots to global strategy leadership, regional commercial stewardship and independent IP creation through Antigen Strategy.

01

Antigen Strategy & Independent Advisor

Jan 2025 to Present

Founded an original strategy practice while consulting on AI, marketing strategy and business growth.

Built intellectual property and advisory capabilities, authored two books on organisational distinctiveness and high-performance psychology, and positioned Antigen as a return-to-leadership platform for strategic growth work.
02

DoubleVerify, Global Client & Agency Lead APAC

Sep 2021 to Jan 2025

Commercial stewardship of APAC agency and client partnerships.

Led pipeline health, joint business planning and expansion of multi-market agreements. Deployed JBP initiatives for AI optimisation and trading with IPG leadership, and led forums around algorithmic optimisation, carbon footprint measurement, attention and outcome modelling.
03

MediaCom, WPP

Jun 2010 to Aug 2021 • Singapore, London, Singapore

Global, regional and country leadership mandates across P&G, Coca-Cola and SK-II.

Roles included APAC Digital Lead P&G, APAC Lead Coca-Cola, Global Strategy Director and EMEA Lead Coca-Cola, Global Media Lead SK-II, and Digital Transformation and Consulting Leader APAC. Work spanned pitch leadership, global principles, shopper and HORECA toolkits, data-driven marketing and martech adoption.
04

Travelocity India

Jan 2007 to Jun 2010

Head of Marketing, India, driving ATL plus digital media strategy and execution.

Delivered 950% year-on-year growth in monthly transactions while reducing cost per acquisition by 67%, giving the career a hard performance-marketing base before regional and global agency leadership.
05

Interactive Avenues

Jul 2004 to Dec 2006

Strategy Manager for top clients and prospects.

Built early strategic planning depth in digital, performance and client growth before moving into client-side marketing leadership.
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Pitch Leadership

80%+ pitch-winning record

Across FMCG, technology and ecommerce, including a 17/23 win rate on pitches led at MediaCom.

Client Growth

Global SK-II consolidation

Helped consolidate global activity worth USD 170M through a 20-person Singapore hub.

Performance

27% lift in brand search

Built and deployed a bespoke performance marketing framework for SK-II, contributing to double-digit annual new-user growth.

Transformation

AI-led content planning

Ran an industry-first AI-driven content planning and purchase journey optimisation pilot for a male grooming FMCG.

Data-Driven Growth

9% impulse sales growth

Demonstrated sales growth in impulse buying via data-driven content for a leading confectionery FMCG.

AdTech Leadership

APAC JBP deployment

At DoubleVerify, led agency and client partnership stewardship, including AI optimisation, attention and carbon measurement workstreams.

Capability Map

Where Sid is most useful.

This map reframes the resume into a buyer-readable architecture, useful for executive search, consulting, senior agency roles and strategic growth assignments.

01

Commercial growth architecture

Revenue pipeline health, joint business planning, client expansion, strategic partnerships and negotiation across complex regional stakeholders.

02

Pitch and pursuit leadership

RFI/RFP strategy, pitch stewardship, multi-agency orchestration, executive narrative and conversion-focused new business systems.

03

AI-enabled marketing transformation

AI optimisation, purchase journey modelling, attention-to-outcome frameworks, carbon measurement pilots and data-driven content operations.

04

Global account strategy

Global and regional media principles, campaign toolkits, governance, local market activation and operational SOPs for multinational clients.

05

Executive workshops

Leadership forums, C-suite relationship management and senior stakeholder alignment across agencies, client organisations and technology partners.

06

Original IP and advisory

Founder of Antigen Strategy, with original frameworks around organisational distinctiveness, uncomfortable growth and high-performance psychology.

70%

Daily-to-weekly spend optimisation

Scaled martech adoption within SK-II, with 70% of spends optimised at a daily to weekly level.

60+

Marketers trained

Delivered media training and upskilling for 60 APAC marketers for Mars Petcare and 30 media leaders for Coca-Cola Europe.

Selected Writing

The thinking behind the operator.

A curated Sidht.com reading layer, chosen to support the executive narrative: AI, media, strategy, leadership, culture and the operating psychology of growth.

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes

AI, misinformation and brand-safety governance after the industry’s old wardens have collapsed.

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WPP’s Strategy Evolution: 2020 vs 2026

A comparative read of holding-company language, simplification narratives, AI claims and institutional amnesia.

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The Cartographers of Chaos

Why strategists matter when organisations automate tactics but abandon the judgment needed to prevent stagnation.

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The Automated Media Paradox

A provocation against optimisation theatre: doing things better is not the same as doing better things.

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The Post-Algorithm World

A long-form cultural argument that algorithms have stopped being tools and become the ambient architecture of choice.

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Marketing Isn’t Art. Creative Isn’t Marketing. Media Isn’t Optional.

A clear hierarchy for business growth, brand growth and media scale, written for marketers who need commercial discipline.

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Manager Leads Order; A Leader Manages Entropy

A leadership essay on managing up, down and sideways when technical competence alone turns into organisational chaos.

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Five Mistakes New Managers Make

A practical manager-development piece on changed relationships, consistent standards, feedback and premature change.

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Let’s build the next growth system.

Available for senior leadership, strategic advisory, pitch stewardship and AI-enabled growth transformation mandates across India, APAC and global teams.

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