Tag: IAA India Chapter

  • Neeraj Roy is guest at IAA webinar on March 5

    By a correspondent

     

    Neeraj Roy

    Neeraj Roy, Managing Director and CEO of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. will be the guest at the International Advertising Association (IAA) India Chapter’s next webinar series. The webinar is scheduled to take place on March 5, 2014 at 3 pm. (*Disclosure: MxMIndia is media partner of the IAA India Chapter webinar series)

     

     

    Srinivasan Swamy

    Srinivasan K. Swamy, President, IAA India Chapter & Vice President, Development Asia/Pacific region of IAA said, “This webinar series has had both Indian and global industry stalwarts share their insights from the digital domain. This will add more dimension to India’s online endeavours.”

     

    Abhishek Karnani, Director, Free Press Journal and Manish Advani, Head – Marketing and Public Relations, Mahindra Special Services Group, are co-chairing the IAA Webinar series.

     

    Abhishek Karnani

    “We have had some great speakers in IAA Webinar Series and Neeraj Roy our upcoming speaker, is the King of Digital. I am confident that the participants could learn how to become digital experts from this session”, said Advani.

     

    The hangout will be broadcast live on the YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/iaaindiachapter  on 5th March, 3pm IST.

     

  • Mumbai leg of IAA Retrospect & Prospects with D Shivakumar on Feb 12

    D Shivakumar

    By A Correspondent

     

    PepsiCo India Chairman and CEO D Shivakumar will present a 60-minute review of the highs and lows in media, advertising and marketing in 2013 and a forecast of what will happen in 2014 Colors is presenting partner of the event which will be held at Hotel Sahara Star. Last month, Mr Shivakumar had presented a similar session in Delhi NCR.

     

    Srinivasan Swamy

    Said Srinivasan Swamy, President, IAA India Chapter and VP-Development, IAA Asia Pacific: “This would be infotainment at its best. In sixty minutes, we will have the wisdom and insights of a leader of our fraternity encapsulating the immediate past and the near-future in an absorbing audio-visual format. It will be a must-see for all members of our industry. The Delhi audience loved it. We, along with our partner Colors, felt there was a need to present this in both Mumbai and Delhi.”

     

  • Srinivasan Swamy re-elected President of IAA India Chapter

    By A Correspondent

     

    Srinivasan Swamy

    Srinivasan Swamy, Chairman & Managing Director of R K Swamy BBDO was re-elected President of India Chapter of International Advertising Association at the Annual General Meeting held in Mumbai on Wednesday, September 25.

     

    Neeraj Roy, MD and CEO of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, was elected Vice President. Jaideep Gandhi, Chairman, Jaya Advertising and Monica Tata, MD, HBO India were re-elected as Treasurer and Secretary respectively for the year 2013-14.

     

    Neeraj Roy

    “IAA India was on an over-drive in 2012-13 under the leadership of Srinivasan Swamy” said Pradeep Guha, VP & Area Director, Asia Pacific of IAA.

     

    Noted a communiqué: in the eleven months since the previous AGM, there were six major events – IAA Leadership Awards, IAA Seminar on Gender Sensitization, IAA Olive Crown Awards, IAA Knowledge seminar on Real Estate in a Digitized World, IAA-Kyoorius DigiYatra and the one scheduled on 30th September, IAA Platinum Jubilee – Global Marketing Summit. In addition, there were five IAA Debates and five IAA Mentorship Webinars – 16 industry defining events in 11 months.

     

    “I am happy I was at the helm at IAA when many new initiatives were planned and unfolded. I had a great team who executed much of these programmes with élan. As we move forward, our aim at IAA India is to be seen by IAA Global as the most vibrant of all IAA chapters worldwide. I am sure that recognition is not far,” said Srinivasan Swamy. Mr Swamy was co-opted onto the global IAA Board in May this year as Vice President- Development, Asia Pacific, as an acknowledgement of the initiatives that were undertaken in the first six months at the helm in India.

     

    The other members of the new Managing Committee are: Pradeep Guha, Pheroza Bilimoria, Kaushik Roy, Sam Balsara, Raj Nayak, Ramesh Narayan, M G Parameswaran, M V Shreyams Kumar, Kunal Lalani, Avinash Pandey, Arunabh Dassharma, Neville Taraporewalla, Partho Das Gupta, Rajesh Kejriwal and Abhishek Karnani, Manish Advani, Janak Sarda, Vishakha Singh, C V L Srinivas and Atit Mehta.