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Maxus has brought in V Narayanan as General Manager to share the responsibilities along with Mausumi Kar at the agency’s Delhi office. He will report to Ajit Varghese, MD, Maxus India. Narayanan comes with over 15 years’ experience and with a strategic bent of mind.
Amit Shankar has put in his papers at Contract Advertising, where he was Creative Director. His has joined Grey Worldwide as Head of Creative, where he will be heading the agency’s creative department at its Gurgaon office, according to senior sources in the industry. He is expected to take charge from today.
Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd, which recently announced its integrated sales team, Big Connect, has announced the appointment of Ashish Rathi as City Sales Head, Mumbai, Big Connect. A Post Graduate in Business Administration Marketing & Finance from the prestigious Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies and an M.Com from Jainarain Vyas University, Rathi began his professional journey as a Business Development Executive with Aptech Computer Education, following it up with a two-year stint in sales at Shaw Wallace. In 2004, he joined ICICI Bank as their Area Sales Manager, where he successfully worked on the corporate salary accounts business for the bank, quickly growing to the post of National Sales Manager in less than six years.
Impact Marketing Services, one of India’s top six integrated marketing services agencies, has appointed Kaushik Sen as Creative Director. Sen will be spearheading the creative initiatives at Impact Marketing Services, including developing communication strategies and creating holistic, 360 degree communication packages for a wide spectrum of clients. During a career spanning more than 15 years, Sen has won many prestigious Promotion Marketing Awards of Asia. He has worked on brands like Microsoft, Ananda Bazar Patrika, IndianOil, Mother Dairy, Verizon, ESPN Star Sports, HP, Sony Ericsson, Cisco, Wipro, ITC, Max Bupa, Reliance Communications, and many others. Prior to joining Impact Marketing Services, Sen had worked for companies including Solutions | Digitas, Rediffusion Y&R, Joint-Arms Communications and INCommunications.
Rajneesh Bahl is joining Percept OOH as Business Head. He takes charge from the first week of August. Bahl’s last stint was with Clear Channel as President, where he spent six months. In his new role, he will be reporting to Sanjay Pareek, President, Percept OOH.
Sandy Pinto, who was with Ignitee Digital Solutions as Senior Vice President, has quit the agency. He has decided to turn entrepreneur and has started his own venture, called Purple Spinach Communications. According to Pinto, “Purple Spinach will be all about ideas that integrate with brands to provide them 360 degree solutions across platforms.”
Avian Media, a specialist communication consultancy, has appointed Carolina James Bajaj as Associate Director, West & South regions. Bajaj will be responsible for strengthening and developing the Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai markets for Avian Media and setting up a dedicated sports practice for the organisation.
Raju Sarin has been recently appointed as Business Head, Magazines, at HT Media Ltd. He will be looking after the supplementary magazines such as ‘Brunch’ and ‘Lounge’ (English), and ‘Nandan’ and ‘Kadambini’ (Hindi). Sarin will be reporting to Vivek Gaur, Business Head, North and East, Magazines, HT Media Ltd.
Sandipan Deb, the Editor-in-Chief of ‘Open’ magazine, has put in his papers. He had been with ‘Open’ for over two and a half year and was considered a pioneer in conceptualising the magazine. Deb was earlier with ‘Outlook’.
Lovnish Bhatia has joined online video advertising network and platform Vdopia as General Manager, Business Development, for its India operations. Bhatia will be responsible for strategic and operational leadership of Vdopia’s growing business operations within the region, including business development. He joins Vdopia with over 10 years of rich experience in the media industry, having played a critical role in spearheading business development at prominent media and entertainment houses. During his tenure, he has been associated with several successful projects within the Internet and Television divisions of Viacom18, NDTV Media and Sony Entertainment. Prior to joining Vdopia, Bhatia was Senior Manager, Business Development at Viacom 18.
Good Relations India has promoted two of its key members of the management team. Deepak Kanulkar, currently COO, will be the CEO, while Jhon Arokiasamy, currently Head of National Account Management, will be the COO with immediate effect. Kanulkar has been with Good Relations since October 2007 and has served as COO for the last two years. Arokiasamy, who has spent over five years with Good Relations, will lead the consultancy’s national business strategy and client servicing operations across all branches. Khanulkar has been in the industry for 18 years. Arokiasamy, a post-graduate in English Literature and Management, has been a corporate communications specialist for more than 12 years.
PVR Pictures has appointed Kamal Gianchandani as President. He will be based out of Mumbai and will lead the entire operations of PVR Pictures. Gianchandani has spent his 15-year career in a range of general management, new media, film financing, co-production, distribution, licensing, syndication, film exhibition, multiplex operations positions. Prior to his current responsibilities at PVR Pictures, he was with Reliance Big Pictures (2006–10) as COO, with end-to-end responsibility of the company’s theatrical distribution and licensing business. He is also credited with setting up and managing company’s syndication arm successfully.
Wieden+Kennedy Delhi has roped in Sunaina Gupta as Head of Planning. Gupta moves from Leo Burnett Delhi. She sees her new role as pushing beyond ATL strategy and making the agency owners of behaviour changing valuable brand assets.
Rohit Madhusudan has recently moved to Law & Kenneth as Associate Vice President. Prior to this, he was with Grey Worldwide as Director, Client Services. In his new role, Madhusudan has been tasked with strengthening client servicing within the Delhi office.
Mala Manian, former CEO of Seventh Channel Communications, has been appointed as COO of Raj Television Network. Manian was associated with Seventh Channel Communications for nearly 25 years and was one of the first non-DD anchors for a private production house.
It is learnt from sources close to the development that Ayan Chakraborty has joined PerceptH as its Chief Growth Officer. He will be based out of Mumbai. Chakraborty moves from Saatchi & Saatchi, where he was Executive Vice President.
Dish TV India Limited has appointed R.C. Venkateish as the CEO of the company. As earlier reported by exchange4media in July, Venkateish had quit ESPN as Managing Director, India and South Asia for ESPN Star Sports and was responsible for business operations in these regions.
Govindraj Ethiraj, Editor-in–Chief, Bloomberg UTV, is set to join the Government Special Project UIDAI. Govindraj Ethiraj was one of the company’s founding members in 2006. Ethiraj has been invited by Nandan Nilekani to be a part of Government of India’s UIDAI project.
In an internal development at Lowe Lintas, Syed Amjad Ali, who was holding the post of Senior Vice President, has been promoted to the position of Executive Vice President. Ali’s portfolio is larger now and the responsibility is to accelerate the branch growth further.
Anindya Banerjee has joined Law & Kenneth as Executive Creative Director of its Delhi branch, with additional responsibility of Kolkata office. His last stint was as Senior Creative Director with Publicis India for two and a half years.
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