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Evarist Rego has put in his papers as COO at IBD India, part of Percept-Hakuhodo. Rego was earlier COO, Perspectrum Consultancy, Percept’s integrated marketing communication firm. He has been with the Percept Group for five years. Senior sources close to the development have confirmed the news. Rego’s next destination is not known.
IMN News has brought on board Ayaz Memon as Consulting Editor. He joined a week back. Memon had quit DNA some time back. At DNA he was Editor-at-large and then continued as a columnist. Having extensive experience in the print industry, this is Memon’s first stint in television media.
Noel Braganza has joined Digital Law and Kenneth as Creative Group Head – Copy. Braganza’s last stint was with Ignitee Digital Solutions, where he was Senior Copy Writer. He will be reporting to Anil K Nair, Managing Partner, Digital Law & Kenneth, and will be responsible for the creative work in Mumbai.
Euro RSCG India has roped in Narayan Devanathan as its new Chief Strategy Officer. Devanathan’s primary responsibilities will involve driving strategic planning for current and prospective clients across all of Euro RSCG’s India offices (in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore), including Reckitt Benckiser, Max New York Life, MakeMyTrip.com, IBM, BPCL, HDFC Bank, and Sanofi-Aventis, among others.
It is learnt from sources close to the development that Devraj Sanyal has returned to the Percept Group. Sanyal had joined Desi Hits Inc as CEO following his stint as CEO of Percept D’Mark (PDM).
Tomomitsu Taue has joined PerceptH as Senior Vice President. Taue has had a wide range of experience in the areas of Account Servicing, Strategic Planning, Sales Promotion and Public Relations. He will report to Prabhakar Mundkur, CEO, PerceptH, and operate out of the Bangalore office on the Toyota and Canon accounts. Prior to joining PerceptH, Taue was Director - Regional Account Planning Division at Hakuhodo Communications Asia Pte Ltd in Singapore, where he was heading the regional account team for South East Asia on Canon and Toyota.
Mudra North & East, a unit of Mudra India, has recently appointed Raylin Valles and Vandana Katoch as Creative Directors. After the appointment of Neville Shah, Valles and Katoch further boost the agency’s creative clout. They join Anil Verma, ECD, Mudra North & East. Valles joins from Publicis, Delhi, where he had worked on brands such as Aviva, Maggie, Nestea and HP. Katoch joins Mudra North & East from Contract Advertising, Delhi, where she had spent 14 years working on a variety of brands such as Domino’s Pizza, Jaypee Group, CRY, Spice Mobiles, Honda, Whirlpool and ESPN.
Red FM has announced the appointment of Krishna Menon as National Activation Head & Station Head, Mumbai, and Anand Raj as Station Head, New Delhi. Menon brings with him experience in sales & business management of about 11 years, whereas Raj was earlier involved with the national promotions and client solutions portfolio for Red FM in Mumbai for the past two and a half years.
After shaping his illustrious career for more than 36 years, Chintamani Rao retires from Times Global Broadcasting on June 25, 2010. Rao had joined Times Global Broadcasting in February 2008 and has played an important role at Times Now and in the launch of ET Now.
Malavika Sangghvi has been appointed as Head of India Bureau at the Edipresse Group, an international media group headquartered in Lausanne Switzerland. Sangghvi’s mandate is to supply news and information about the India luxury world to nine of the Asia Tatler titles across Asia.
Anil Kakar has put in his papers as Executive Creative Director at IBD India. Kakar has confirmed his move from IBD India, but did not divulge any details on his plans ahead. He has a career span of 17 years in the advertising industry.
123greetings, an IntraSoft Technologies venture, has beefed up its senior management team in North India with two new appointments - Ashish Wahal has been brought in as VP - Ad Sales (North), while Mohan Anand has been appointed as Regional Head, Ad Sales (North).
TBWA\India has been busy beefing up its Delhi team. Close on the heels of Rajesh Kochhar being elevated to Vice President in charge of the Delhi operations, the agency has hired two senior creative talents – Tarvinderjit Singh and Rishi Chanana.
Dibang, a well-known face in the TV news industry, is joining Star News, where he will be hosting talk shows on the lines of ‘Muqabala’, which he had hosted when he was in NDTV. Star News management told exchange4media that Dibang was joining on a long contract.
Mediascope Publicitas, the Swiss media consultancy, has appointed Gourav Tandon as COO for its newly launched out-of-home (OOH) vertical. Tandon had put in his papers at Navia Asia as Chief Operating Officer earlier in June 2010.
Hanoz Mogrelia has put in his papers at Saatchi & Saatchi as Creative Director after a decade-long stint with the agency. He is joining DDB Mudra, where he will be working closely with NCD Rajeev Raja. Mogrelia will be based out of Mumbai.
Suresh Bala has put in his papers at Zoom as CEO. He had been with Zoom since 2006. Bala now intends to start his own venture in the media space and said that he would be ready to talk about it in a week’s time. It could not be ascertained as to who would be replacing Bala at Zoom.
Sandeep Bhargava, Chief Executive Officer of The Indian Film Company (TIFC), a Network18 company, has recently put in his papers. June 30, 2010 will be his last day with the company. Haresh Chawla, Group CEO, Network18 and Viacom18, will take interim charge of the operations.
Harit Nagpal, currently Group Marketing Director, Vodafone Plc, is joining Tata Sky as Managing Director from August 2010. Nagpal will take over from Vikram Kaushik, the current Managing Director, who is retiring on December 31, 2010.
After the addition of Karan Rawat, Grey Mumbai has brought on board Aarati Kakkad as Creative Director – Copy. Kakkad will work with ECD – Copy, Rohit Malkani. Kakkad began her career at Concept Communications as a trainee, writing copy for brands like Onida. She moved on to Enterprise Nexus (Bates India) and worked on The Times of India, Femina, NECC and ICICI credit cards accounts before joining O&M, where she spent five years working on campaigns for Vodafone, Emirates, Kotak Mahindra Insurance and DHL. After a short stint at Leo Burnett working on brands like Whisper and McDonalds, Kakkad has joined Grey Mumbai. She has also won significant recognition for her work on Vodafone, including a Gold at the Effies for the Vodafone Alerts Campaign; a Silver Abby for Integrated Campaign for Hutch Small, Medium & Large, among other awards.
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