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Justin Rabindra bids adieu to Ogilvy

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."

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Interviews

"People wondered about mobile content, while the problem was with the device"

Marcel Fenez, the global entertainment and media leader, PWC provides strategic business advice to media companies, specifically on market entry into ...

"Coke is more contemporary than Pepsi"

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 ...

"India responds directly to advertising"

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 ...

"adidas moving from being functional to stylish"

Torsten Hochstetter, creative director, sport performance/ sport style global marketing/ global design, adidas was at Cannes. Prajjal Saha and Biprosh ...

People Movements

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
More People Movements

Defining Moments

Ali Merchant: Bar to branding
Bhaskar Das: The King of Good 'Times'
Kamal Oberoi: Accidental adman
Sonal Dabral: Chance encounters
Divya Radhakrishnan: "Rediffusion was my dream agency!"
Jasmin Sohrabji: Never say die

Profiles

  • Swati Bhattacharya: Journey that was to be

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

    Vijay Sampath: Playing it straight

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

    Matt Seddon: The itinerant ad man

    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..

  • Ravi Rao: Media, Indology and rum

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

    Rajesh Bhargava: The Workaholic

    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: The Mahout

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

Tributes

Our heartfelt condolences to industry professionals who are not with us anymore.

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