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Tushar Goculdas has been elevated to the role of Brand Director for adidas as part of the new Joint Operating Model of adidas Group in India. Before this, he was Director - Sales & Marketing for adidas since October 2008.
Narendra Tripathi, who was appointed as Printer and Publisher for North operations of Mid Day in March this year, has put in his papers. Though Tripathi did not reveal where he is headed next, he did mention that he would be moving back to the broadcast industry.
Backed by a rich career of 17 years in HR, Rajendra Mehta joined Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd as Executive Vice President Human Resources on September 1, 2011. He moves from Jindal ITF.
Milestone Brandcom has beefed up its senior team with the appointment of Sheetal Jain as AVP – Strategy & Planning. The agency is set to soon launch an event promotion division and a retail solution division in the six major metros.
Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the appointment of Sandeep Girotra to lead its business in India. Girotra will be based in Gurgaon and his appointment is effective from October 1, 2011. He is currently responsible for a number of key customer accounts in India as a Sub-region Head.
Times Television Network has appointed Hemant Arora as Chief Sales Officer, Times Television Network. Arora will drive synergies for over 1000 advertisers amongst all four Times television channels -- ET Now, Movies Now, Times Now and Zoom.
Close on the heels of winning the Rs 200-crore Incredible India account, Span Communications has decided to strengthen its digital operations, creating a separate business unit altogether. While Kshitiz Randhir Shori has been brought on board to head the unit, plans are afoot to set up a dedicated digital team in order to expand the bouquet of offerings to clients.
S Divaakar, who had worked in the capacity of AGM (Sales and Marketing) with TV9 Network, has moved on to a new Kannada news channel, owned and run by Writeman Media Pvt Ltd, as VP (Sales and Marketing). Veteran journalist HR Ranganath and former Editor of Kannada Prabha and Suvarna News, is the Chairman and Managing Editor of Writeman Media.
S Divaakar, who had worked in the capacity of AGM (Sales and Marketing) with TV9 Network, has moved on to a new Kannada news channel, owned and run by Writeman Media Pvt Ltd, as VP (Sales and Marketing). Veteran journalist HR Ranganath and former Editor of Kannada Prabha and Suvarna News, is the Chairman and Managing Editor of Writeman Media.
Calling it quits after 16 long years, is G Krishnan, Executive Director and CEO of TV Today Network, that runs a number of news channels like Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, Delhi Aaj Tak and Tej. His rich experience spans over 25 years and he was actually involved in launching Aaj Tak, which grew to be popular from the word go.
Narayan Devanathan has been appointed as National Planning Head for Dentsu Marcom by the Dentsu India Group. Devanathan will be a key member of the new leadership team at Dentsu India Group. His primary responsibilities will involve leading strategic planning for current and prospective clients across Dentsu Marcom offices in India.
Amit Kumar has called it quits at India TV and moves on. According to sources, he has joined BAG Network.
Sandeep Sharma, Senior VP, Sales & Marketing, has quit Times TV Network to start his own venture.
Gurmeet Singh has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Forbes India effective from August 24, 2011. He is reporting to B Sai Kumar, Group COO, Network18 Group. Prior to this, Singh was associated with HT Mumbai since 2009, where he was heading the newspaper’s business.
Chandana Agarwal, Senior Vice President, Dentsu Marcom; Anirban Chaudhury, Senior Vice President - Strategic Planning, Dentsu Communication; and Vivek Shinde, Executive Creative Director, Dentsu Marcom have put in their papers at Dentsu. Sanjoy Chakrabarty, COO, Dentsu Media had also resigned few days ago. The exits follow the recent change in leadership structure at the agency.
Starcom Worldwide has announced the appointment of Rajendra Dwivedi as Vice President to lead Starcom Worldwide, Mumbai. Dwivedi will report to Mallikarjunadas CR, CEO, Starcom MediaVest Group India. He takes charge on August 25, 2011.
Manoj Padmanabhan has joined Neo Sports Broadcasting Pvt Ltd as Vice President – Advertising Revenue. He will be heading Ad Sales at Neo Cricket and will report to Raju Udupa, EVP – Network Sales.
Online Media Group (OMG), a leading global player in performance marketing, has announced the appointment of Bharat Malik as Country Manager of OMG India. Malik moves from travel portal Yatra.com, where he was Head of Online Marketing.
After spending close to two years with Ignitee Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd, Chief Operating Officer Shankar B has bid adieu to the organisation. His next destination is not known.
Cheil Worldwide SW Asia has announced an expansion of its creative and client servicing force in India. The agency has brought on board Varun Arora and Shobhit Mathur as Executive Creative Directors and Amit Ahluwalia as Vice President, Client Servicing.
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