Mohammed Khan
Mohammed Khan began his career as a copywriter in London 37 years ago. On his return to India he served as Creative Director at daCunha and MCM. Subsequently he founded Rediffusion and was also instrumental in setting up Contract. He then went on to start Enterprise, now Enterprise Nexus, a part of the Lowe Lintas […]
Gerson da Cunha
Gerson da Cunha is credited with mobilising advertising agencies to help social causes. He has served as Advisor, Communications in the Ministry of Civil Aviation & Tourism, Information & Broadcasting and Health & Family Welfare at various times since 1968. A Bachelor of Science (BSc) from Bombay University. His illustrious career has seen him spend […]
Walter Saldanha
Walter Saldanha had humble beginnings in the industry. He started at the level of Secretary/Steno at J Walter Thompson Co. (JWT) in March 1951.He was appointed Assistant Executive 6 months later. In 1953 he was assigned the responsibility of assessing the feasibility of establishing a JWT Branch in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Later that year, […]
Arun Nanda
Arun was born with a silver spoon as his title Divan indicates. He was chosen from amongst thousands of candidates for the first batch of IIM Ahmedabad in 1966. He was awarded a gold medal from IIM and shared the honours with Dr C K Prahlad, the famous management guru. He started his career with […]
Prem Mehta
Prem Mehta was Chairman & Managing Director of Lintas India Pvt Ltd. His professional experience spans over 35 years of marketing, advertising and general management with companies like Forbes Forbes Campbell, Hindustan Lever, Richardson Hindustan and Lintas. When he took over the reins of Lintas India in 1993, it was a single advertising agency with […]
Goutam Rakshit
Like many other advertising professionals, Goutam Rakshit strayed into advertising more by accident than by choice. During his school days at Cathedral, he had dreamt of leading the life of a gentleman farmer, a goal he says he has not yet given up on. Swayed by the imagery surrounding the IITs, he however joined IIT, […]
Ranjan Kapur
Ranjan was born in 1942, the year the Quit India movement was started, but the full import of its meaning dawned on him several years later when as a young intern at S H Benson (Ogilvy & previous avatar), he saw his expatriate bosses face expulsion threats from a highly trenchant and well organized union. […]
Sam Balsara
“A slight man who performs giant deeds and has decades of achievement behind him”, says The Brand Reporter, (a marketing magazine in India) describing Sam Balsara. The magazine further says, “Unassuming, affable, and a charmer, the soft spoken Balsara hit the headlines in April 08 with a spectacular deal that made the Media world sit […]
Piyush Pandey
Piyush Pandey became the national creative director of Ogilvy & Mather India, in 1994 and was inducted to the Ogilvy Worldwide board in 2006. Piyush Pandey has also been named the most influential man in Indian advertising seven years in a row by The Economic Times, India’s premier business newspaper. Under his leadership, O&M India […]