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Raj Chengappa, Managing Editor, India Today, has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of The Tribune Group of Publications. He takes charge from March 16, 2010 and replaces HK Dua, who had been heading The Tribune since 2003 and was recently nominated as a Rajya Sabha member.
Fleishman-Hillard International Communications, one of the world’s leading communications consultancies, has expanded its India footprint, opening a wholly-owned office in New Delhi that complements the firm’s presence in Mumbai. Megha Sharma has been appointed as Vice-President with responsibility for leading the new office, which will provide strategic communications counsel to corporations and organisations based in India or doing business in the country. A specialist in corporate reputation management and crisis communications, Sharma joins Fleishman-Hillard from Euro RSCG PR & Events, where she was heading their New Delhi branch – a role that encompassed client service, strategic consulting and new business development.
Sagar Kambli, Art Director, and copy writer Kuber Sharma have called it a day at Lowe Lintas. They are now headed to Ogilvy India. Kambli and Sharma were with Lowe Mumbai for four years and had worked on brands such as Ginger Hotels, ICICI Prudentials, Chroma and Tata Medical Centre, to name a few. Prior to Lowe, Kambli was with Triton Advertising, Mumbai, while Sharma had worked for a research company by the name of AON Research.
Priya Krishna has joined Big FM Chennai as Station Head. She will report to Suresh Iyer, Regional Head, Big FM, South. This is Krishna's second stint with the radio station. She has 13 years of professional experience, with expertise in areas such as business development, marketing, relationship management, people management and client servicing in the media industry. Krishna commenced her career with the MAC Group of Companies as an officer in the portfolio management division. In 1997, she joined The Times of India, Chennai as an executive, looking after Madras Plus and the financial category clients. Subsequently, she shifted to handling magazines such as Femina and Filmfare. Her stint with The Times of India lasted for eight years. In 2005, Krishna joined DNA and played an instrumental role in establishing the DNA brand in Chennai, while getting all the bigwigs of the industry to participate through advertising. Krishna joined Big FM in 2007 as City Sales Head, Chennai region. In A
After a stint of nearly five years Rana Barua has put in his papers at Radio City as EVP and National Head - Programming and Marketing. He is currently serving his notice period.
McCann Erickson India has elevated Namrata Nandan as General Manager to head its Bangalore office. The elevation was announced at the time of appointing Loveleen Raina and Rahul Matthew to the agency. Prior to this role, Nandan was Group Business Director at McCann Mumbai.
NAC Advertising, a full-service advertising agency, has appointed Rajesh Mehta as its CEO. Mehta comes in from Rohit Roy Productions and possesses 22 years of experience in media, advertising, marketing television airtime and space selling, and relationship management.
After a stint of three years, R Chandrasekar (aka Chandru) has decided to move on from Bharti Airtel as Senior Vice President and Head of Brand and Media. It is understood that Chandrasekar is moving to a banking and financial services institution to head its marketing.
After a stint of three years, R Chandrasekar (aka Chandru) has decided to move on from Bharti Airtel as Senior Vice President and Head of Brand and Media. It is understood that Chandrasekar is headed to a financial services group to head its marketing function.
After being with NDTV Media since its inception, Avinash Kaul has decided to move on from the company. While Kaul could not be contacted at the time of filing the story, it is understood that his next destination is Sahara One, where he would be heading the broadcasting side of the business.
Colors has added two senior members in the sales team. Both these positions are newly created ones. Pappan Majumdar has been appointed as National Director - Property and Sales, while Shivani Raina Ghosh has been brought in as National Director - Client Servicing. Both will report to Simran Hoon, National Sales Head, Colors.
Dinamalar, one of the leading Tamil dailies, has appointed S Balasubramanian as Head of Marketing, New Media. Prior to joining Dinamalar, he was Senior Vice President – Ad Sales at Galatta.com. Dinamalar.com currently has more than 35 million page views and occupies the 130th place among Indian websites as per Alexa rankings.
Kavita Bagga has joined SAB Miller as Head of National Key Account. She is responsible for SAB Miller’s forays in large format outlets, which are both image builders and volume drivers for the company. These include large format stores, hotels, and clubs, among others.
Allied Media, the media planning, evaluation and buying arm of Percept Ltd, has announced the appointment of Amol Mohandas as General Manager. He will be reporting to PM Balakrishna, Vice President, Allied Media, and will be responsible for all aspects of the Future Group media business. Prior to joining Allied Media, Mohandas was Proprietor at Weave Through Communications, an outfit into on-ground and digital activations. He has extensive expertise in the arena of media planning and buying. During his 10 years in the industry, Mohandas has also been associated with companies like MediaCom (Middle East), Starcom and Mindshare, which entailed handling clients across a vast spectrum of industries such as automobiles, consumer durables, retail, banking, FMCG, etc.
Vdopia, a leading online and mobile video monetisation player, has announced the appointment of Debadutta Upadhyaya as Vice President, India. She would be reporting to Saurabh Bhatia, Chief Business Officer and Co-founder, Vdopia. Prior to joining Vdopia, Upadhyaya was Head of Sales Strategy at Yahoo! India. She spent almost six years with Yahoo! India and grew from her role as an Account Manager in 2004 to National Sales Head in 2008. Prior to Yahoo!, she was with Times Group for nearly eight years. She is a gold medalist in Literature, Journalism and Mass Communication.
After a stint of two years, Neel Chowdhury has quit his role as Vice President-Marketing at CNBC Network18. Chowdhury has decided to move out of the media domain and has joined technology company Obopay, which is a mobile payment solution company, as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.
Shalini Dam, NCD, Grey India, has put in her papers. Dam was elevated to NCD in 2008, replacing Priti Nair then. Though no official confirmation was available at the time of filing the report, the buzz is that Ogilvy India’s Malvika Mehra and Amit Akali would replace Dam as NCD and would be based out of Mumbai.
R Rajmohan is quitting Images Consumer Media Group, where he is currently the President and Publisher. He is set to join ‘Open’, the magazine from RPG Group, as Publisher from February 15, 2010. Rajmohan will be reporting to Sanjeev Goenka, VC, RPG Group. He has confirmed his movement to exchange4media.
K Ramakrishnan (Ramki) has joined Café Coffee Day (CCD) as its President - Marketing. He will be reporting to Alok Gupta, Director of Café Business. He replaces Bidisha Nagaraj, who was President - Marketing at CCD and had moved out of the organisation some time back.
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