Arvind Krishnan
Arvind Krishnan
Arvind Krishnan is Founder & CEO, MANJA, an independent creative agency built around senior practitioners who remain directly involved in the work. He began his advertising career at Leo Burnett in 2005 and joined BBH in 2009. Across approximately 13 years at BBH, he worked in India, served as a team director in London and returned to lead BBH India as Managing Director. That experience shaped his emphasis on listening to clients, aligning disciplines around a commercial problem and protecting the conditions for strong creative work. His decision to build MANJA reflected a desire to stay close to that work as a senior leader. He approaches independence through practical choices about pricing, capacity, client fit and deliberate growth. His perspective brings creative agency business models into focus: how to charge for accumulated expertise, preserve leadership attention and give ambitious people a stake in the organisation they are building.
Arvind Krishnan is Founder & CEO, MANJA, an independent creative agency built around senior practitioners who remain directly involved in the work. He began his advertising career at Leo Burnett in 2005 and joined BBH in 2009. Across approximately 13 years at BBH, he worked in India, served as a team director in London and returned to lead BBH India as Managing Director. That experience shaped his emphasis on listening to clients, aligning disciplines around a commercial problem and protecting the conditions for strong creative work. His decision to build MANJA reflected a desire to stay close to that work as a senior leader. He approaches independence through practical choices about pricing, capacity, client fit and deliberate growth. His perspective brings creative agency business models into focus: how to charge for accumulated expertise, preserve leadership attention and give ambitious people a stake in the organisation they are building.