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  • To nurture "select world class" advertising and media entrepreneurs

    Ashish Bhasin launches The Bhasin Consulting Group

    By Our Staff

     

    Ashish Bhasin, Co-Founder and Advisor RD&X Network and former CEO APAC Dentsu, has announced the launch of The Bhasin Consulting Group. The Bhasin Consulting Group will provide top level business and leadership mentoring for founders, CEOs and company Boards to help “turbocharge” their business growth, both organically and through Mergers & Acquisitions. It will, notes a communique, endeavour to create advertising and media entrepreneurs and businessmen and businesswomen of global standards, a much-needed skill in these times of rapid transformation.

     

    The Bhasin Consulting Group will only work with the senior-most leaders in select businesses with a long-term growth potential. They will provide mentorship through a long-term Top to Top relationship, which could include taking a significant minority stake in mentored businesses, in keeping with the skin-in-the-game philosophy of Bhasin.

     

    In the initial phase the consulting and mentorship will be targeted towards select growth -oriented young companies operating in the advertising, marketing services, digital and media space, across geographies.

     

    Commenting on the launch, Ashish Bhasin said: “There is a huge need for Business and Leadership Mentoring for CEOs, CXOs and Founders in young and growing companies with ambition. Often while these leaders have good domain expertise, many in the Advertising, Marketing Services, Digital and Media Industry lack top class business, entrepreneurship and leadership experience which is essential to navigate, transform and grow in today’s fast changing, complex business environment and for maximizing shareholder value. Building and integrating top performing teams and getting them to work with a common goal and vision, to deliver profitability and business success in complex situations is what I have accomplished over the past 35 years. I have had the opportunity to successfully lead a team of 14000 people across 18 countries, in diverse businesses and to drive organic growth as well as successfully complete 24 Acquisitions across India and APAC. Many of my mentees today have founded or lead large organisations. The Bhasin Consulting Group will provide the benefit of that experience and introduce world class best practices in this area, for the first time in India.”

     

  • Billed as a first-of-its-kind musical talent hunt for the advertising fraternity

    Goafest 2023 to also award music talent, with Advertising Rocks

    By Our Staff

     

    With an aim to give India’s creative community a platform to showcase their musical talent, Goafest 2023 has announced ‘Advertising Rocks’, a platform for the musicians in the fraternity to showcase their talent and also win some dosh.

     

    With three categories – Vocals Solos (Indian), Vocals Solos (Western) and Bands (Indian & Western – mixed), all finalists will be given an opportunity to perform for a jury and delegates at Goafest and will be offered an all expenses trip consisting of air-fare, stay and entry at Goafest 2023. Moreover, the winning bands stand to win cash prizes of Rs 2,00,000 and Rs 1,00,000 for the first and second place respectively and soloists stand to win cash prizes of Rs 50,000 and Rs 25,000 for the first and second place respectively.  Winners will be selected on the basis of final combined score by a jury and live voting attendees at Goafest.

     

    On announcing ‘Advertising Rocks’, Mohit Joshi, CEO, Havas Media Group India and Goafest 2023 Co-chair said: “Advertising Rocks is a unique initiative and platform that recognizes the musical talents of people beyond their daily roles in the advertising and media industry. The initiative not only celebrates their creativity but also brings the industry closer together in a fun and innovative way. Being a music lover myself, I can’t wait to see the level of excellence that will be displayed at Goafest’s Advertising Rocks! this year.”

     

    Added Subhash Kamath, Former CEO of BBH and curator of ‘Advertising Rocks’: “The advertising and media industry is full of musical talent. Over the years, I’ve heard some wonderful singers and bands. What better occasion than Goafest to give this talent a stage to perform in front their peers? Advertising truly rocks!”

     

    Said Ashish Bhasin, Co-Founder & Chairman, RD&X Network and Chairman of the Events Committee at Goafest 2023: “Advertising Rocks is an exciting initiative that will surely drive engagement prior to the festival as well as on-ground. It also gives us an opportunity to know our industry colleagues beyond the creative business. We encourage the industry to participate actively in Advertising Rocks and look forward to some interesting performances at Goafest 2023.”

     

    And one more quote. Said Rana Barua, Group CEO, Havas Group India & Chairman, The ABBYs Award Governing Council and Ajay Kakar, Managing Committee Member, The Advertising Club & Co-chair, The ABBYs Award Governing Council: “Our industry can boast of multi-faceted talent. And this initiative will draw out the hidden musical talent that either gets neglected or doesn’t have a platform to express itself, in this fast-paced life. Goafest is known to dial up excitement levels for our industry folks.  Advertising Rocks offers a unique proposition for our industry to showcase its musical talent. It will be fascinating to see our colleagues perform for our industry at a festival of this scale.”

     

  • An initial corpus of $10 million committed for organic and inorganic growth across US, EMEA, and SEA markets

    Rajiv Dingra launches RD&X Network to invest in companies & solutions

    By A Correspondent

     

    Rajiv Dingra

    Even though it was a fully-owned Dentsu International venture, digital agency WatConsult has always been known as a Rajiv Dingra enterprise. He quit WatConsult in Jan 2020 and moved out in April to work on RD&X Network which was announced on Tuesday (Oct 27). RD&X is being billed as a “deep-tech network that will drive brand, business, media and data transformation helping businesses globally become real-time, disruptive, and thereby achieve exponential growth”.

     

    Helping him do that is an initial corpus of $10 million that’s been committed for its organic and inorganic growth worldwide. Aiming to be geography-agnostic and remote-first company, its expansion plans include strategic acquisitions and investments in early-stage companies in areas of deep tech, gig economy, mar-tech, and ad-tech. Parallelly, in-house flagship solutions are also currently under development.

     

    On the occasion of the launch, Dingra said: “This decade belongs to deep tech disruption and every organisation around the world will need to evolve through transformation to stay relevant today and grow in the future. We believe that the gig economy coupled with deep tech will create new business models that are agile and effective to scale globally. The disruption caused by the pandemic provided us with a huge opportunity of building a global network in the new normal. The impact of Covid-19 has accelerated the necessity for businesses to rapidly adopt technologies like AI, Blockchain, Robotics, XR, and IoT to navigate an uncertain future. We are already seeing early-stage companies at the forefront of this disruption and we are excited by our ongoing discussions with them. We look forward to such disruptive companies becoming a part of our network.”