Debal has been with Standard chartered for the last 4 years. Before that he had a stint at Citibank too. Coming with 19 years of work experience, Debal has had a career in advertising and marketing. Starting his career with HTA (now JWT), Debal was in client management and strategic planning. He has worked across several categories in his advertising days – tobacco, hotels. Food, drugs, fmcg, cars, sanitaryware, confectionary, branded commodities etc – and has been in banking for the last 8 years. At Standard Chartered he leads the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon initiatives, is part of the team that manages the 10 global marathons that the bank has and has created multiple sponsorship properties for the bank that target to the HNW segment and worked on campaigns and 360 activations across brand platforms. Debal looks after brand and sponsorships across India and South Asia.