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Ashish Patil, who has been with MTV for 12 years, has decided to move on and join Yash Raj Films (YRF). At YRF, Patil will work as the Business and Content Head for a new division, which will focus on youth movies. He will report directly to Aditya Chopra, who is the Vice Chairman of the group.
Along with managing his current role of VP and Network Head Sales, UTV Broadcasting, Nikhil Gandhi will now also be the Business Head of UTV Bindass. Heather Gupta, who was holding this position earlier, will now continue to be the Vice President, HR for the UTV Group.
Following the exit of Chirag Shah (former National Sales Head), Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd has now realigned its sales team with two key changes – Siddharth Kelkar and Vishwanath Shetty have been elevated as Regional Heads for New Markets (Pune, Ahmedabad and Kolkata) and the Mumbai region, respectively.
Speculations are rife about Sagar Mahabaleshwarkar putting in his papers at Rediffusion Y&R as Chief Creative Officer. He is reportedly on his way to Bates 141 as its new National Creative Director. Bates 141 had been on the lookout for an NCD for some time now. Despite repeated attempts, officials from neither Rediffusion Y&R nor Bates 141 were available for comments.
Rediffusion Y&R has augmented its planning team with two new senior appointments. Sumeer Mathur and Vikram Dhaliwal have joined the Mumbai offices of Rediffusion Y&R as Planning Heads. This is a homecoming for both of them as they have been associated with Rediffusion Y&R earlier. Dhaliwal was a brand partner based out of Delhi, working on one of the largest clients Airtel and Sleepwell, while Mathur was a planner on the Colgate-Palmolive business in Mumbai. Mathur joins after spending six years with Lowe, Mumbai where his responsibilities included being the regional planner on key Unilever brands like Clinic Plus, Clinic All Clear & Global Planner on Fair & Lovely. While Dhaliwal was Senior Planning Director at Bates, Delhi, heading the strategic planning function for the office, including all new business initiatives. The key clients that he worked with at Bates were various Dabur brands like Uveda and Gulabari, Hitachi, Artd’inox, iBibo, etc.
MSM Discovery Pvt Ltd, popularly known as TheOneAlliance, has announced the appointment of Makarand Palekar as Senior Vice President - Sales and Affiliate Relations. He will be taking on as a key member of the senior management team and will be responsible for the all-India sales and affiliate relations. Prior to joining MSM Discovery, Palekar was Sales Head at ESPN Star Sports, of which he was a part since its start-up.
It’s a homecoming of sorts for Hari Krishnan, who is back at Grey India as the VP & Branch Head, Grey Mumbai. The position had been left vacant for over a year now. Prior to this, Krishnan was with STAR India in the channel’s marketing division for a few months. Hari’s first innings at Grey started in 2007 when he joined to head Grey Bangalore. He is credited with building the branch successfully, retaining and consolidating clients and building a highly efficient team.
Dun & Bradstreet India, provider of business information, knowledge and insight, has announced that Dr Manoj Vaish would be stepping down as President & CEO of the company, effective March 31, 2010. Dr Vaish will be succeeded by Kaushal Sampat, who is currently D&B India’s Chief Operating Officer. Sampat’s new role will be effective from April 1, 2010. In a career spanning over 16 years, Sampat has held a host of strategic responsibilities. He joined Dun & Bradstreet as a Business Analyst in 1998 and has played a key role in developing new businesses for the company in India (Sales & Marketing Solutions, Economic Analysis Group, Financial Education Solutions & Hoovers) and also forging strategic alliances. Sampat has held a variety of strategic and operational roles in the company’s various SBUs. He has also been responsible for Dun & Bradstreet's e-commerce initiatives in ASEAN/South Asia.
Online travel company Yatra.com has announced the appointment of Raja Natesan as Chief Operating Officer of the company. As COO, Natesan will oversee the overall business of the company, including structuring policies and developing new strategies. Natesan brings with him 19 years of rich experience in the travel and travel technology industry. Prior to joining Yatra.com, Natesan was Chief Commercial Officer at Interglobe Technology Quotient. In his earlier roles, he was Regional Manager, South East Asia, at Kingfisher Airlines and was also President and CEO of Galileo India Pvt Ltd. Natesan has been a part of the top management for over 10 years now and has played important roles in companies like IGT Solutions Pvt Ltd, AFL Ltd. and Air France. He had also owned a company called Keep the Change Management Consulting Pvt Ltd, which specialised in consulting for top management in areas such as communication, work efficiency, change management, etc.
Juju Basu, Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi is joining Contract Advertising as Vice President and Senior Creative Director. He will be reporting to Ravi Deshpande, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Contract Advertising. The agency will create a structure around Basu for him to lead a group of talented creative people at Contract in order to build and prosper some of the agency’s robust businesses. He will also help Contract drive its digital agenda in an aggressive way. Basu will join Contract from mid-April.
Abhishek Verma, who had recently moved out of Neo Sports as Marketing Head, has joined Star World and Star Movies in a similar capacity. In his new role, Verma will be reporting to Anupam Vasudev, EVP - Marketing, Star India. At Neo Sports, Verma was overseeing the marketing of all the business verticals for Neo Cricket and Neo Sports.
Arnab Chaudhuri has joined Walt Disney Television International India as Director, Content and Creative. His responsibilities include overseeing the creative and content strategy for Disney TV’s network in India, which includes Disney Channel, Disney XD and Hungama TV.
Business channel ET Now has appointed Ashu Dutt to the newly created position of Chief Consulting Editor, Financial Markets. Dutt will be reporting to Andy Mukherjee, Senior Editor, Financial Markets, ET Now. Along with Dutt, ET Now has also roped in Manisha Gupta as Editor, Commodities and Currencies.
Zee Enterprises Entertainment Ltd (ZEEL) has effected some senior management changes to streamline its functions. Nitin Vaidya has been re-assigned the regional channel’s portfolio in the Hindi speaking markets, while Anurag Bedi’s portfolio will see the addition of Zee Studio and Zee Café.
Neelanjan Shome, CMO, HT Media, has decided to move on. Shome was serving his notice period, which had ended last week. He had spent close to three years at HT Media, where his key responsibilities included managing assets in print (English and Hindi general interest dailies, English business newspaper), radio and Internet.
Wunderman has appointed Aditya Mehrish as Executive Vice President, heading their Delhi operations. He will be based out of their Gurgaon office. Mehrish has over 17 years of diverse expertise with agencies as well as consumer durable, hospitality, and publication industries. He has worked with brands such as Microsoft, Accenture, Oberoi Hotels and Reader’s Digest. In his last assignment with Reader’s Digest Delhi as Associate Publisher, Mehrish had worked on brand marketing, circulation, and advertising sales. Prior to that, at the Oberoi Group, he was responsible for direct marketing, CRM, and digital initiatives for both The Oberoi Hotels & Resorts and Trident Hotels. In his earlier stint with Wunderman, Mehrish handled the Citibank and Ford Motors accounts out of Chennai and then moved to Bangalore to set up the branch that then became the fastest growing office for Wunderman. Mehrish has also worked with Netcarrots Loyalty Services, Infovision Group and Result McCann.
Buzzintown, an Internet portal dedicated to the promotion of events and entertainment in India, has announced the appointment of Premlesh Machama as VP, India Business. Prior to joining Buzzintown, Machama was working with Sify.com as Head of Ad Sales, responsible for pan India sales across all Sify properties. He has also worked with with TBSL (Times Business Solutions Ltd), heading sales for Simplymarry.com; Dainik Bhaskar Group, where he was responsible for branding and marketing of Divya and Dainik Bhaskar; Getit & India Database, where he was heading online sales; and Reed Elsevier, Plc.
Dentsu India has roped in Krishna Prasad as Head of its Digital Division. He was with MSN India as Executive Producer until October 2009. Prasad has about 16 years of work experience, of which seven were spent at MSN India. As Executive Producer at MSN, he was heading the content team and was mainly responsible for creating content strategies and alliances to drive Internet users to MSN India network websites. He was also part of the team that launched MSN Search and MSN Video in India. Prior to MSN, Prasad had worked with companies such as Microland Group, where he was Head of Production at Indya.com, which was later acquired by News Corporation.
DNA has announced the elevation of Dipayan Chowdhury as its National Sales Head. Chowdhury has been with the organisation since its inception. With over 19 years of experience, he has worked across media and FMCG industries. His earlier stints with print were with ABP, Business Standard and Hindustan Times.
US-based CineMaya Media Inc has appointed Rajiv Mishra as COO and President of the group. Mishra will be based in Delhi and will be responsible for the entire India operations. He will be reporting to Sunil Hali, Chairman, CineMaya Media Group.
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