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Divya Dileep
SVP, Group Creative Director
TBWA\WORLDHEALTH

HOBOKEN, USA // Divya is a proud alum from Pratt Institute where she studied Communications Design. She started her career in the music industry designing album covers (remember those!?) for Island Def Jam Music Group. Over the course of her career, she has worked in the beauty, wellness, and luxury goods industry before settling into the world of pharmaceutical advertising. In her earlier years, she worked with companies such as Clarins Groupe, Bon Appetit, Point One Percent, New York Sports Clubs, Weight Watchers, India Today Magazine to name a few.

Divya’s experience in pharmaceutical advertising ranges from consumer, healthcare professional, and corporate advertising. She has creatively engaged with an all-inclusive range of global clients such as Abbott Diagnostics, Abbvie, Allergan, Biogen, Merck KgaA/EMD Serono, Moderna, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, Pfizer, Spark Therapeutics, Takeda, and Verestem.

She has an in-depth understanding of therapeutics, including Anti-Infectives, Diabetes, Hematology, Rare Disease, Oncology, Vaccines and Women's Health. Divya has steered bespoke and franchise branding work streams as well as launched, guided, and accelerated brands with multiple indications as required. With more than 12 years in the industry, her true passion lies in bringing a brand to life, finding the most strategic and creative way to tell its story, and making sure it is designed to perfection.

Divya is very involved and passionate about the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts at TBWA\WH and in the Omnicom Health Group network. She serves as a member of OHG DE&I Advisory Board and is part of the TBWA\WH DE&I Leadership Team.

Divya was born in India, lived in Singapore, and traveled extensively in Southeast Asia before putting down roots in the United States. She currently lives in Hoboken with her husband and children. She is a mom to 3 young children Dev (5 yrs) and Nyra (2 yrs) and Prince (6 yr old Syberian Husky). She is very involved in her community in Hoboken and is actively engaged in her kids’ schools.

Divya also has an unhealthy obsession with music, movies, fashion, a.k.a all things shiny and colorful. In her spare time, she loves to have cooking competitions with her husband, getting artsy, crafty, and messy with her kids and photography. She loves traveling to new countries to experience different cultures that inspire her creativity.