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Interviews

"People wondered about mobile content, while the problem was with the device"

Marcel Fenez, the global entertainment and media leader, PWC provides strategic business advice to media companies, specifically on market entry into ...

"Coke is more contemporary than Pepsi"

While advertising gives the consumer a reason to buy a product, very often, the design of the package or product plays a crucial role in swaying the c ...

"India responds directly to advertising"

Elisa Steele plays a key role in developing the global marketing strategy at Yahoo! Prajjal Saha and Biproshree Das of afaqs! caught up with her at th ...

"adidas moving from being functional to stylish"

Torsten Hochstetter, creative director, sport performance/ sport style global marketing/ global design, adidas was at Cannes. Prajjal Saha and Biprosh ...

People Movements

Month/Year Name From To New position
July 2011 Ashok Ganapathy RPG Group Reliance MediaWorks CEO - BIG Cinemas
July 2011 Biswaraj Chowdhary Music Broadcast Dainik Bhaskar Group AGM- MarComm
July 2011 Milind Palav McCann Erickson Onads Communications Senior Creative Director
July 2011 Sidhartha Singh Rediffusion-Y&R Salt Brand Solutions Design team
July 2011 Deepak Srivastava Perspectrum IBD India Branch Head
July 2011 Anuttam Sen ABP Pvt Ltd NaiDunia Media General Manager (West) and National Product Manager
July 2011 Saugata Bagchi Tribal DDB India Digitas India Vice-President
July 2011 Anish Daryani Rediffusion Ogilvy Africa General Manager
July 2011 Deepesh Jha Lowe Lintas Ogilvy Africa Executive Creative Director
July 2011 Venugopal Chandrasekhar Bates 141 Rediffusion-Y&R Business Head
More People Movements

Defining Moments

Nagesh Alai: Striking the Balance
Ali Merchant: Bar to branding
Bhaskar Das: The King of Good 'Times'
Kamal Oberoi: Accidental adman
Sonal Dabral: Chance encounters
Divya Radhakrishnan: "Rediffusion was my dream agency!"

Profiles

  • Russell Barrett: Copy Right

    Russell Barrett, BBH Mumbai's newly appointed managing partner, admits that he has been an admirer of the agency for years. "There's no place for politics at this exclusive creative place," he says, while taking afaqs! through his journey so far..

    Madan Sanglikar: New Beginnings

    Madan Sanglikar, who recently took charge as CEO of the digital start-up AD2C after a stint in Mindshare, takes afaqs! through his advertising journey..

    Kamal Basu: Crossing over

    Kamal Basu, Skoda's head, marketing, discusses the key learnings in his career so far, and how the Skoda assignment came about..

  • Swati Bhattacharya: Journey that was to be

    Swati Bhattacharya, JWT Delhi's newly-promoted national creative director feels she was destined to be in advertising..

    Vijay Sampath: Playing it straight

    Sampath, CEO, ACK Media, believes that one must live by choices and not be dictated by circumstances..

    Matt Seddon: The itinerant ad man

    Matt Seddon, the newly-appointed CEO at Saatchi & Saatchi, although a British, has spent a considerable amount of time in Asia. afaqs! tracks Seddon's journey from the UK to Singapore, via Vietnam and the Philippines, and finally to India..

Tributes

Our heartfelt condolences to industry professionals who are not with us anymore.

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