GAURAV BHATIA NAMED MANAGING DIRECTOR OF SOTHEBY’S INDIA

Sotheby’s has announced that Gaurav Bhatia has been appointed managing director of Sotheby’s India. Bhatia will be based in Mumbai and will work with the auction house’s international team to their growing client base.

Previously, Bhatia served as the head of marketing at Moët Hennessy India. He has seventeen years of marketing and communication experience in India and in the US; he began his career in 1999 working for the advertising firm Young and Rubicam in New York.

“I’m delighted to be joining Sotheby’s dynamic and highly experienced team at such an exciting moment for the art market in India,” Bhatia said. “Sotheby’s was the first international auction house to hold a sale in India and continues to build on this legacy—evident most recently through the opening of a Mumbai office alongside an ever expanding calendar of events.”