Mumbai: The International Advertising Association (IAA) India chapter on Friday announced its managing committee lineup for the financial year 2021-22. The members co-opted and invited to the committee were announced at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) chaired by Discovery Communications India - South Asia MD and the recently re-elected president Megha Tata.
"I am delighted to bring together such a wonderful mix of enthusiastic, experienced, diversity in gender and industry-wide representation to the mancom this year. Together we hope to continue to be the beacon of light of our industry,” said Tata.
The mancom members are: Madison Communications Pvt Ltd chairman & managing director Sam Balsara; Republic TV group president Dr Bhaskar Das; Viacom18 Media head – Hindi and kids TV network Nina Elavia Jaipuria; Laqshya Media Group managing director Alok Jalan; Orient Electric Ltd business unit head of appliances Salil Kappoor; The Advertising Club, Madras past president and independent communication consultant Anbuchezhiyan K; Mathrubhumi PTG & PBG Co Ltd managing director MV Shreyams Kumar; Canco Advertising Pvt Ltd founder Ramesh Narayan; Pantaloons CEO Sangeeta Pendurkar; India Today Group's TV Today Network & Radio CEO Rahul Shaw; Hungama Digital Media founder and CEO Neeraj Roy; EENADU director I Venkat; Intelligent Insights Pvt Ltd founder Ashok Venkatramani; The Horologists founder and president Mitrajit Bhattacharya; Barc India CEO Nakul Chopra; The Times of India Group president Partha Sinha; Zirca Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd CEO and director Neena Dasgupta, and Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd COO Kranti Gada.
At the AGM held on 24 September, Eros International Media Ltd group CEO and executive director Pradeep Dwivedi was re-elected vice president. The other elected office bearers are - Lodestar UM CEO Nandini Dias as honorary secretary and The Free Press Journal director Abhishek Karnani as honorary treasurer.
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd managing director & CEO Punit Goenka will continue as a member of the managing committee as the immediate past president.
The other elected members of the managing committee were: Another Idea founder Jaideep Gandhi; The Indian Express Ltd executive director Anant Goenka; ABP Network CEO Avinash Pandey; Deshdoot Media Group managing director Janak Sarda, and GroupM South Asia CEO Prasanth Kumar.
The co-opted members were: Havas Group India CEO Rana Barua; Dentsu Aegis Network CEO-APAC and chairman India Ashish Bhasin; Amar Ujala Publications Ltd president of marketing Rajiv Kental; Indira Television Ltd director Rani Reddy;
R K SWAMY Hansa & IAA Presidents' Council chairman and IAA Global immediate past chairman & world president Srinivasan K Swamy.
Headquartered in New York, the IAA is a globally-focused integrated advertising trade association with membership representing advertising agencies and the media. The association comprises corporate members, organisational members, educational affiliates, as well as 56 chapters with individual members and young professionals from 76 countries and is over 80 years old.
