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After 11 years, Rabindra has decided to move on to pursue professional photography.
Speaking to afaqs!, he says, "During my early years in advertising, I had the exposure to some fine photographers like Pradip Dasgupta, Akash Das, and Adrian Stevens who inspired me to get into photography. My first love was travel and landscape photography that went well with the extensive travel that I did during my days in advertising."
Marcel Fenez, the global entertainment and media leader, PWC provides strategic business advice to media companies, specifically on market entry into ...
While advertising gives the consumer a reason to buy a product, very often, the design of the package or product plays a crucial role in swaying the c ...
Elisa Steele plays a key role in developing the global marketing strategy at Yahoo! Prajjal Saha and Biproshree Das of afaqs! caught up with her at th ...
Torsten Hochstetter, creative director, sport performance/ sport style global marketing/ global design, adidas was at Cannes. Prajjal Saha and Biprosh ...
| Month/Year | Name | From | To | New position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2012 | Soumya Nagabhushan | Ogilvy | IBD India | Associate Creative Director |
| February 2012 | Kartikeya Dixit | Ogilvy | IBD India | Associate Creative Director |
| January 2012 | Rajesh Rai | Sorento Healthcare Communications | McCann Healthcare | Senior VP and ECD |
| January 2012 | Sunil Gadgil | Bausch and Lomb India | Nivea India | Director Marketing |
| January 2012 | Soumitra Karnik | JWT | Dentsu India | National Creative Director |
| January 2012 | V Murugan | Makkal TV | Radaan Mediaworks | CEO |
| January 2012 | Vivek Malhotra | STAR News Network | TV Today Network | Marketing and Research Head |
| January 2012 | Vinay Dholakia | Hungama.com | OMD India | General Manager, Digital |
| January 2012 | Arun Anant | IncValue | The Hindu | CEO |
| January 2012 | Madan Sanglikar | Mindshare | A2DC | CEO |

Swati Bhattacharya, JWT Delhi's newly-promoted national creative director feels she was destined to be in advertising..

Sampath, CEO, ACK Media, believes that one must live by choices and not be dictated by circumstances..

Matt Seddon, the newly-appointed CEO at Saatchi & Saatchi, although a British, has spent a considerable amount of time in Asia. afaqs! tracks Seddon's journey from the UK to Singapore, via Vietnam and the Philippines, and finally to India..

Not everything is planned in life, and this holds especially true for Ravi Rao, the recently-promoted leader of Mindshare in South Asia..

The first thing that strikes you about Rajesh Bhargava, the recently-appointed general manager, studio and production, Dentsu Marcom, is his spectacular salt-and-pepper walrus moustache..

Kavitha Srinivasan begins her second stint at Mindshare, the GroupM-promoted media planning and buying agency. She takes afaqs! through her career so far..
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