Rishi Kapoor appointed Head – Talent Acquisition & Resource Management, South Asia at WPP Media

WPP Media, the global media collective, has named Rishi Kapoor as Head – Talent Acquisition & Resource Management, South Asia. He joins at a time when talent and resource agility are central to success in media and advertising, especially across a fast-evolving region like South Asia.

Kapoor brings a track record in strategic hiring and workforce planning. Before this role, he served as Vice President – APAC Talent Acquisition & Staffing at Material, where he led regional hiring strategies and workforce scaling. He also held senior talent acquisition and management roles at Publicis Sapient, Corbus, FCS, TechRoots Solutions, and GEO Connect. This breadth has equipped him with exposure to diverse hiring challenges from tech and consulting to creative and digital functions.

At WPP Media, Rishi Kapoor will have responsibility for end-to-end talent acquisition and resource planning across South Asia, including shaping recruitment and staffing strategies, building scalable hiring processes, enhancing employer branding, and optimizing resource utilization. His role will also involve aligning HR/talent processes with changing business structures, ensuring readiness for digital transformation, and reinforcing inclusion and diversity in workforce representation.

This appointment highlights WPP Media’s emphasis on elevating “resource strategy” and talent operations as strategic enablers, not just support functions, particularly important as media & marketing businesses adapt to new consumption models, ad tech advances, and competitive pressures.