Indian advertisers appoint new chairman

The newly-elected Executive Council of the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) appointed Sunil Kataria, Business Head %u2013 India and SAARC at Godrej Consumer Products, as the association's new chairman. He takes over from Saugata Gupta, Managing Director and CEO of Marico Limited, who served as ISA's chairman for two consecutive terms.

Sunil Kataria has an extensive experience in the FMCG and consumer services sectors in sales, marketing and business roles.

"Our focus would be to further strengthen the industry partnerships that we have built over the decades and deliver the desired benefits to our members and other stakeholders. I look forward to working with industry partners and associations in creating a more credible and meaningful advertising ecosystem," he said upon his appointment.

Other members of ISA's Executive Council are:

• Atul Agrawal, SVP Corporate Affairs, Group Corporate Communications, Tata Services


• Anuradha Aggarwal, CMO, Marico


• Abraham Mathew Alapatt, President & Group Head-Marketing, Service Quality, Financial Services & Innovation, Thomas Cook (India)


• Narendra Ambwani, Director, Agro Tech Foods


• Ajoy H Chawla, Sr. VP & Chief Strategy Officer, Titan Company


• Paulomi Dhawan, Advisor, Raymond


• Sonali Dhawan, Brand Director, Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care


• Chandru Kalro, Managing Director, TTK Prestige


• Sandeep Kataria, Director %u2013 Commercial, Vodafone India


• Sandeep Kaul, Divisional Chief Executive %u2013 India Tobacco Division, ITC


• Sandeep Kohli, Executive Director %u2013 Personal Care, Hindustan Unilever


• Beena Koshy, Executive VP %u2013 Advertising, Digital & Branding, Bajaj Electrical


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


• Prashant Richard Peres, Director %u2013 Marketing Chocolate, India, Mondelez India Foods


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


• Samardeep Sunil Subandh, CMO, Flipkart


• Amit Tiwari, Director, Philips India


• Brahm Vasudeva, Chairman, Hawkins Cookers

For more information, contact ISA.