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Draftfcb Ulka has appointed Sanjay Tandon as Chief Operating Officer of its Delhi operations. Prior to this, Tandon was Senior Vice President at the Delhi office and was handling the entire Tata Docomo business.
Kids Out of Home Pvt Ltd (KOOH), a company providing professional sports training to children and fully integrated outdoor gaming programmes, has announced the appointment of Shrikant Hazare as its Chief Marketing Officer. He will lead KOOH’s marketing efforts for their sports and events divisions.
Shishir Gupta has come on board as Deputy Executive Editor, Hindustan Times. He will be working on special stories out of Delhi as well as other centres. Gupta will also be contributing to HT’s digital properties. He will be reporting to Sanjoy Narayan, Editor-in-Chief, Hindustan Times, and also work closely with Delhi Resident Editor Sudeep Mukhia.
Percept Media, the media planning, buying and evaluation arm of Percept Ltd, has brought on board Srikanth Raman as Chief Planning Officer. Prior to joining Percept Media, Raman was with Starcom MediaVest, where he was General Manager – Research & Strategy.
Rediffusion Y&R, Delhi has further ramped up its creative team with the appointment of Tarun Batra as Creative Head – Art. Batra joins from Lowe Scanad (Scangroup) Tanzania, where he was Creative Director (Art). He will be reporting to Chraneeta Mann, ECD, Rediffusion Y&R, Delhi.
Tata Elxsi, a leading design company, has appointed design veteran Nick Talbot as Global Design Head for its Industrial Design (ID) division. Talbot will be based in the Bangalore headquarters of Tata Elxsi.
Ogilvy & Mather has promoted Anand Badami to the role of Group Managing Director, Ogilvy & Mather Malaysia. Badami takes over from Andre Nair, who is leaving the agency after fulfilling his two-year contract at the end of September to return to his consultancy role.
Over the past decade, the revenue from Healthcare Communications has steadily grown across all networks. In keeping with this trend and the opportunity that it presents, McCann Healthcare has appointed Sohan Shah as its new Head.
BAE Systems India has brought on board Indu Anand as Head of Communications. She joins the company from Citigroup and replaces Guy Douglas, who is returning to the UK to take up new responsibilities at the company’s UK headquarters.
PM Balakrishna, who has been Vice President, Allied Media till recently, has been elevated as Chief Operating Officer of the company. Balakrishna had joined Allied Media along with Shripad Kulkarni, CEO of the company, since its inception in April 2007.
JWT India has appointed Sanjeev Bhargava as Managing Partner. In this leadership role, Bhargava will be responsible for JWT Delhi. Prior to joining JWT, he was with DraftFCB for 18 years.
Ogilvy & Mather has announced the appointment of Joono Simon as Executive Creative Director at its Bangalore office.
Sulekha Sharma has returned to ZEEL after a gap of two years. In her latest stint with ZEEL, Sharma will be Deputy Vice President and National Head, Ad Sales. She will be reporting to Ashish Sehgal, Executive Vice President, Ad Sales.
K Sriram, VP- Corporate Strategy at Mirc Electronic, the makers of Onida and IGO range of products, has put in his papers. Though Sriram refused to divulge his next destination, he said that it would be out of the durables category.
GN Mohan has joined Samaya Kannada news channel as its new head. He was earlier heading ETV Kannada television news of Ramoji Group and was with ETV News group for eight years.
Sajal Mukherjee, a veteran in the media industry, has joined Emami Ltd as Vice President - Media. He brings with him three decades of experience in the industry.
Rediffusion Y&R has made two key appointments in its Delhi office. Abhik Santara has been elevated as Vice President and Chraneeta Mann as Executive Creative Director. Santara will head the Delhi office, while Mann will head the Creative function at Delhi.
Joydeep Ghosh, a senior industry professional with more than 22 years’ experience across media and technology services, has been roped in to head eBus Aidem operations in India. He replaces Ajay Verma, who had quit as Business Head of eBus Aidem to pursue his own entrepreneurial ambitions.
Mudra Max has appointed Subhashish Sarkar as Senior Vice President for its outdoor division. He will be heading Mudra Max OOH, North & East, and will report directly to Mandeep Malhotra, President, Mudra Max-OOH. Prior to this appointment, Sarkar was with Percept as Business Director (North & East).
Tripurari Sharan, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, is the new Director General of Doordarshan. He takes over from Leeladhar Mandloi, who has been the Acting DG of the government broadcaster for several months.
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