Re-elected chairman for Indian association

On 23 September, the new Executive Board of the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) appointed Saugata Gupta, Managing Director and CEO of Marico Limited, as chairman for the second consecutive time.

Gupta has two decades of experience in the FMCG sector, having worked for Cadbury (India & UK), ICICI Prudential and Marico. He holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore and is a long-time active ISA member.

"Our focus would be to further strengthen the industry partnership that we have built and in particular to extend all necessary support to ensure that BARC's data would represent viewers across the country and deliver the desired benefit to the advertisers and other stakeholders. I am looking forward to the exciting times ahead for Advertisers, industry partners and fraternity associations to work as a stronger team to harness overall growth of advertising towards robust business and thereby contributing to the Indian economy", said Saugata Gupta on his expectations for his second term.

Other members of ISA's new Executive Board are:

• Atul Agrawal, Vice President %u2013 Corporate Affairs, Group Corporate Communications, Tata Services Ltd.


• Abraham Mathew Alapatt, Chief Innovation Officer & Head %u2013 Marketing and Service Quality, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.


• Narendra Ambwani, Director, Agro Tech Foods Ltd.


• Ajoy H. Chawla, Sr. Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer %u2013 Titan, Titan Company Ltd.


• J. C. Chopra, Director, Infogain India Private Ltd.


• Paulomi Dhawan, Strategic Advisor, Raymond Ltd.


• Sonali Dhawan, Marketing Director, Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd.


• Rajiv Dube, Director, UltraTech Cement Ltd.


• Chandru Kalro, Managing Director, TTK Prestige Ltd.


• Sunil Kataria, Business Head %u2013 India & SAARC, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.


• Beena Koshy, Vice President & Head %u2013 Advtg. & Brand Development, Bajaj Electricals Ltd.


• Anisha Motwani, Marketing & Digital Strategist, Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd.


• Bharat V. Patel, Independent Director, Birla Sun Life Asset Management Company Ltd.


• Prashant Richard Peres, Director Marketing Chocolate, India, Mondelez India Foods Ltd.


• Sanjiv Puri, President %u2013 FMCG Businesses, ITC Ltd.


• Chandrasekar Radhakrishnan, Head - Communications & eCommerce, Nestle India Ltd.


• Ramakrishnan Ramamurthi, Vice Chairman, Joint MD & Group CEO, Polycab Wires Pvt. Ltd.


• Samir Singh, Executive Director %u2013 (Personal Care), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.


• Brahm Vasudeva, Chairman, Hawkins Cookers Ltd.

For more information, contact ISA.