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Management

The AAAI functions through the active, voluntary services of a President, a Vice-President, an Honorary Secretary, an Honorary Treasurer and an Executive Committee assisted by a full-time Secretary General and his staff. 

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The AAAI functions through the active, voluntary services of a President, a Vice-President, an Honorary Secretary, an Honorary Treasurer and an Board of Directors assisted by a full-time Secretary General and his staff. The President and other office-bearers are elected every year by the General Body, which comprises of one representative of each agency-member of the Association. In addition, some members are co-opted to the Board of Directors and all zones and groups of agencies (by size) are represented on this committee. Assisting the above group are various Sub-Committees/ Task Committees, each looking after specific activity areas of the Association, and Regional Convenors who co-ordinate members’ activities in different regions of the country.

SRINIVASAN K SWAMY

President, AAAI & Executive Chairman of the R K SWAMY HANSA Group

JAYDEEP R GANDHI

Vice President, AAAI

CHANDRAMOULI MUTHU

Hon Secretary & Regional Convenor South, AAAI

SHASHIDHAR SINHA

Hon Treasurer, AAAI

PRASANTH KUMAR

Imm Past President, AAAI

ANUPRIYA ACHARYA

Director, AAAI and CEO, Publicis Groupe South Asia

SAM BALSARA

Director, AAAI

BABITA BARUAH

Director, AAAI

PRIYANKA CHATTERJEE

Director & Regional Convenor East, AAAI

TANYA GOYAL

Director, AAAI

VISHANDAS HARDASANI

Director, AAAI

MOHIT JOSHI

Director, AAAI

SANTOSH KUMAR

Director, AAAI

KUNAL LALANI

Director & Regional Convenor North, AAAI

HEPHZIBAH PATHAK

Director, AAAI

KARTIK SHARMA

Director, AAAI & CEO, Omnicom Media India

DHEERAJ SINHA

Director, AAAI & CEO - McCann India

K SRINIVAS

Director, AAAI & Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Sloka Advertising Pvt. Ltd

PARITOSH SRIVASTAVA

Director, AAAI

AJIT VARGHESE

Director, AAAI and Partner & Group CEO, Madison Communications Pvt Ltd

CommitteeChairpersonMembers
Business Practices & Government RelationsPrasanth KumarAnupriya Acharya, Sam Balsara, Vishandas Hardasani, Kunal Lalani, Shashidhar Sinha
Legal, Taxation &
Constitution
Vishandas HardasaniTanya Goyal, Kunal Lalani, K Srinivas
Client Agency
Reconciliation/
Disputes Committee
Kunal LalaniVishandas Hardasani, Santosh Kumar, C Muthu,
Talent, Training &
Professional
Development
Anupriya AcharyaJaydeep R Gandhi, Tapas Gupta, Kartik Sharma, Hephzibah Pathak
Media (Print/TV/
Research)
Sam BalsaraAnupriya Acharya, Kartik Sharma, Shashidhar Sinha
Membership Expansion
Committee
Jaydeep R GandhiKunal Lalani, C Muthu, Tapas Gupta, K Srinivas
Young Creative/Media
Contests
Dheeraj SinhaTapas Gupta, Santosh Kumar, Paritosh Srivastava
Creative GroupTBATanya Goyal, Santosh Kumar, C Muthu, Paritosh Srivastava, Babita Baruah, Hephzibah Pathak
Lifetime Achievement
Award
Jaydeep R GandhiSam Balsara, Anupriya Acharya, Shashidhar Sinha, Prasanth Kumar
GoafestJaydeep R GandhiAnupriya Acharya, Sam Balsara, Kartik Sharma, Shashidhar Sinha, K Srinivas, Prasanth Kumar
Digital Evolution on
Agency Ecosystem
TBAAnupriya Acharya, Vishandas Hardasani, Mohit Joshi, Kartik Sharma
ASCI ActivitiesSam BalsaraShashidhar Sinha, Babita Baruah

President would be ex-officio member of all the committees.

AAAI Nominees on Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) Board

Members of Advertising Council of India (ACI)

Shashidhar Sinha

AAAI Nominees on Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) Board

Anupriya Acharya

Shashidhar Sinha

Committee for Reviewing Programmes and Advertising Codes, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

Srinivasan K Swamy

Shashidhar Sinha

Tanya Goyal

BIS – Technical Committee: Advertising Standards

Sam Balsara

Tanya Goyal

Santosh Kumar

Tapas Gupta

Mr. M. H. Broom

1945-49

Mr. Jagan Nath Jaini

1949-50

Mr. D. H. McGill

1950-51

Mr. A. M. Patel

1951-52

Mr. W. F. Dyer

1952-53

Mr. E. J. Feilden

1953-55

Mr. S. K. Bose

1955-57

Mr. A. M. Patel

1956-58

Mr. J. Kurien

1958-59

Mr. R. F. Hardcastle

1958-59

Mr. H. N. Robinson

1959-60

Mr. S. N. Banerjee

1959-61

Mr. A. K. Gupta

1961

Mr. Harish C. Jain

1961-62

Mr. S. N. Banerjee

1962-63

Mr. I. Premnarayen

1963-65

Mr. R. Ahmed

1965-67

Mr. J. Chakravarthy

1967-69

Mr. A. S. Peerbhoy

1969-71

Mr. Bhasker B. Mundkur

1971-72

Mr. J. L. Mainthia

1972-74

Mr. P. Sanyal

1974-75

Mr Kailash C. Jain

1975-76

Mrs. N. V. Wadia

1976-77

Mr. S. Ghosal

1977-79

Mr. Ahmed Ibrahim

1979-80

Mr. S. R. Ayer

1980-82

Mr. R. K. Swamy

1982-84

Mr. R. C. B. Pereira

1984

Mrs. Tara Sinha

1984-85

Mr. Avinash Jain

1985-86

Mr. Bal Mundkur

1986-88

Mr K. Premnarayen

1988-89

Mr. M. K. Khanna

1989-90

Mr. Goutam Rakshit

1994-95

Diwan Arun Nanda

1992-94

Mr. Goutam Rakshit

1994-95

Mr. Anil Kapoor

1995-97

Mr. Ram Sehgal

1997-99

Diwan Arun Nanda

1999-2000

Mr. Ramesh Narayan

2000-2002

Mr. Sam Balsara

2002-2004

Mr. Srinivasan K Swamy

2004-2007

Mr. Madhukar Kamath

2007-2009

Mr. Colvyn Harris

2009-2010

Mr. Nagesh Alai

2010-2012

Mr Arvind Sharma

2012-14

Dr M G Parameswaran

2014-2016

Mr. Nakul Chopra

2016-2018

Mr. Ashish Bhasin

2018-2020

Ms Anupriya Acharya

2020-22

Mr. Prasanth Kumar

2022- 2025