IAA India Chapter announces stellar line-up in managing committee

The members co-opted and invited to the Managing Committee of the India Chapter of IAA for the financial year 2020-21 were announced at the first meeting of the managing committee chaired by the newly elected President, Megha Tata, Managing Director – South Asia, Discovery Communications India. 

Megha Tata commented, “I am delighted to bring together such a wonderful mix of youthful enthusiasm, experience, and diversity in gender, geography and industry-wide representation.” 

The Mancom members are: 

• Rana Barua (Chief Executive Officer, Havas Group India),
• Ashish Bhasin (CEO, APAC and Chairman India, Dentsu Aegis Network),
• Rajiv Kental (President – Marketing, Amar Ujala Publications Ltd)
• Rani Reddy (Director, Indira Television Ltd)
• Srinivasan K Swamy (Chairman & Managing Director, R K SWAMY BBDO Pvt. Ltd.)
• Sam Balsara (Chairman & Managing Director, Madison Communications Pvt. Ltd.)
• Umang Bedi (Co-Founder, Dailyhunt)
• Dr Bhaskar Das (Group President,Republic TV)
• Partho Dasgupta (President, The Advertising Club, Mumbai)
• Pradeep Guha (Managing Director, 9x Media Pvt. Ltd.)
• Nina Elavia Jaipuria (Head – Hindi and Kids TV Network, Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd.)
• Alok Jalan (Managing Director, Laqshya Media Group)
• Salil Kappoor (Business Unit Head-Appliances,Orient Electric Ltd)
• Tarun Katial (CEO, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL)
• Anbuchezhiyan K (Independent Communication Consultant, Past President- The Advertsing Club, Madras)
• V. Shreyams Kumar (Managing Director, Mathrubhumi PTG & PBG Co. Ltd.)
• Sunil Lulla (Chief Executive Officer, BARC India)
• Ramesh Narayan (Founder, Canco Advertising Pvt. Ltd.)
• Sangeeta Pendurkar (Chief Executive Officer, Pantaloons (Aditya Birla Group)
• Kallie Purie (Vice Chairperson, India Today Group)
• Neeraj Roy (Managing Director & CEO, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd)
• I Venkat (Director, EENADU)
• Ashok Venkatramani (Founder -Intelligent Insights Pvt Ltd -a business intelligence tech platform )

At the AGM held on September 28, 2020, the following office bearers were elected:

• Pradeep Dwivedi (CEO- Eros India of Eros STX Global Corporation) elected Vice President,
• Jaideep Gandhi (Founder -Another Idea) as Hon. Secretary,
• Abhishek Karnani (Director-The Free Press Journal) as Hon. Treasurer,

Punit Goenka, Managing Director & CEO, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd, will continue as a member of the Managing Committee as the Immediate Past President.  

The other elected members of the Managing Committee are:

• Anant Goenka (Executive Director, The Indian Express (P) Ltd),
• Avinash Pandey (CEO, ABP News Network Pvt. Ltd.),
• Janak Sarda (Managing Director, Deshdoot Media Group),
• Nandini Dias (Chief Executive Officer, Lodestar UM),
• Prasanth Kumar (CEO-South Asia GroupM- A WPP Company)