Arvind Sharma
Arvind Sharma is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad- 1977 batch. He served as head of Leo Burnett, South Asia for well over two decades. In his last corporate role, Arvind was a member of the Global Leadership Council of Leo Burnett Worldwide. In 2015, Arvind turned an independent director and a tech […]
Madhukar Kamath
Madhukar Kamath is a distinguished alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur and Loyola College, Chennai. Madhukar has more than four decades of experience in the Advertising Industry and has spent over twenty-five years in the erstwhile Mudra now the DDB Mudra Group. Under his leadership, Mudra transformed itself from an Advertising Agency into one of India’s leading […]
Krishan Premnarayen
Krishan Premnarayen was the youngest President of AAAI when he took charge as President in 1988 at the age of 36 years. Krishan devoted substantial time and energy towards reviving the relevance of the Association to become a source of support for member agencies and a strong Industry Body to interact with other industry and […]
Ram Sehgal
Ram Sehgal literally established Delhi as a premier centre for advertising in India – it was this foundation that later led JWT Delhi to become the largest office in India and among the largest in the world; he moulded ‘Contract Advertising’ into one of the finest agencies of the day in so much that it […]
Roda Mehta
Roda Mehta almost single handedly led the campaign to professionalize the Indian media function. Roda joined HTA in 1971 and became the first woman and first MBA in the media function of an advertising agency in India. In 1975, she joined O&M, where she worked for 23 years rising to become Director – International Client […]
Srinivasan K Swamy
Srinivasan K Swamy popularly known as Sundar Swamy is a Chemical Engineer and an MBA from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. He took over the reins of his father’s eponymously named R K Swamy Advertising after his demise in 2003 and has been responsible for its stellar growth in the past decades. […]
S V Sista
Mr Shambhu Venkatrao Sista, known to his friends as Bobby has been one of the stalwarts of Indian Advertising. Known for his professional integrity he constantly fought to ensure ethical business practices in a fiercely competitive profession. Mr Sista was trained in Advertising in England. After he returned to India he worked in Sistas for […]
Ramesh Narayan
Ramesh Narayan, would have been a journalist if it had been a more remunerative field during the early eighties, when he started off his career. He confesses that he opted for advertising so that he could be a copywriter and be close to his first love, writing. In the course of a two and a […]
Anil Kapoor
In a career spanning four decades, Anil Kapoor has played various roles in the world of marketing and advertising: Head of Marketing of a large British multinational, a CEO of a pioneering media company and a CEO of a struggling ad agency. One thing that defines him is his ‘Never Say Die’ attitude. When he […]
Subhas Ghosal
Subhas Ghosal joined J. Walter Thompson Company Bombay as an Executive Trainee in 1945. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 1957 and became Chief Executive of Hindustan Thompson in 1974. He was a Founder-Member and President of Advertising Club, Calcutta. He was President of the Advertising Agencies Association of India, during the […]