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Profile is a regular column which peeps into the career path of senior advertising, media and marketing professionals, who are currently in news.
Profile - Naresh Gupta: The Plan-less Planner
Advertising | Gupta who is currently, director, strategy and planning, Dentsu Marcom is popularly known - among his circle of friends and acquaintances - as Google Gupta... read more
Profile: Mona Jain - Build associations with people
Media Planning & Buying | The new COO of VivaKi Exchange recalls personal experiences collected over 21 years of her career... read more
Profile: MK Anand - The science of selling
Media Publishing & Television | Anand's versatility is clearly visible in his profile that stretches from a beginning as a medical representative to his current position as CEO of UTV Global Broadcasting... read more
Profile: Pearl Uppal - Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug
Digital & Online Marketing | Uppal opts out of race for the top position at prominent internet firms to become an entrepreneur and starts an online shopping venture as co-founder and chief executive officer... read more
Profile - Vikram Malhotra: "I love movies, which is why I'm here"
Media | Malhotra dabbled in aircrafts and Formula One racing before moving on to head the business at Balaji Motion Pictures... read more
Profile – Sandeep Vij: "I encourage making mistakes"
Advertising | The chief executive officer, DDB Mudra Group, and chief knowledge officer, Mudra Group has had an interesting career graph that brings him to where he is today... read more
Profile: Ajit Thakur - Business head with a creative mind
Media Publishing & Television | Wanting to become a writer, Thakur ended up studying Economics and management, and being in charge of SET... read more
Profile: "Any internet company requires anchors"- Rishi Khiani
Digital & Online Marketing | afaqs! explores Khiani's journey from being a fine arts graduate to an entrepreneur to chief executive officer of Times Internet... read more
Profile: 'Badminton may not set the ratings on fire, but is a big opportunity'- Prasana Krishnan
Media Publishing & Television | In June this year, Krishnan was elevated to chief operating officer, with a mandate to oversee Neo Sports Broadcast... read more
Profile: Sanjay Behl -- The chaos-seeker on the go
Media Publishing & Television | Learning consumer insights in toilets worldwide... read more
Profile: Ramanuj Shastry – Not done with the 60-seconder yet
Advertising | The recently appointed national creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi shares some memorable incidents from his 15-year advertising journey... read more
Profile: Sanjay Trehan: Digital Mastering
Digital | Advertising has taught Trehan about consumers, people management and lateral thinking... read more
Profile: Sanjay Gupta - Onto a 'soap' opera
Media Publishing & Television | Sanjay Gupta joined STAR India as chief operating officer, moving in from Airtel... read more
Profile: Sanjib Dey being married to advertising
Advertising | Though thoughts about joining his family’s restaurant business cropped up now and then, for Sanjib Dey the pull of advertising was much stronger. afaqs! caught up with the new president of Saatchi & Saatchi one afternoon to know why advertising is his ‘choice’... read more
Profile: Sandeep Lakhina's adventurous ride to the top
Media Planning & Buying | Lakhina was recently promoted to COO, South Asia, at Starcom Worldwide. He speaks to afaqs! about his varied experiences... read more
Profile: Suprio Guha Thakurta on donning many hats
Media Publishing & Print | The managing director of The Economist India takes time out to chat with afaqs! on the journey that has brought him thus far... read more
Outlook is my baby and I wouldn't like to harm it: Maheshwer Peri
Media Publishing & Print | As Peri gets on with his own publishing house, Pathfinder Publishing, he talks to afaqs! about his plans and his relationship with Outlook... read more
Profile: Srikant Sastri - the man with the solutions
Advertising | As Sastri assumes additional responsibilities at VivaKi, he pauses and takes us back through his journey so far... read more
Profile: Hari Krishnan – always on the edge of change
Digital & Online Marketing | Krishnan, who loves working in bleeding-edge sectors, talks about his career path to afaqs! – from telecom engineer to country manager of social networking website MySpace.com... read more
Profile: Santosh Padhi – A ‘heart’ful of art
Advertising | Paddy, as he is better known, in a freewheeling chat about advertising, his mentors and the agency he plans to set up with Aggie... read more
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