Avinash Pandey elected President IAA India Chapter

At the AGM of the International Advertising Association (IAA) India Chapter, Avinash Pandey, CEO ABP Network was elected President for the YEAR 2022-23.

Abhishek Karnani (Director, Free Press Journal Group) was elected as Vice President while media veteran Nandini Dias was elected as Hon. Secretary and Jaideep Gandhi (Chairman, Another Idea) as Hon. Treasurer. Immediate Past President is Megha Tata, who till recently was the MD, Discovery Networks South Asia.

The members elected to the Managing Committee were Srinivasan K Swamy (Chairman & Managing Director, R K Swamy Pvt Ltd), Shreyams Kumar (Managing Director, Mathrubhumi Group), Prasanth Kumar (CEO-South Asia, GroupM), Anant Goenka (Executive Director, The Indian Express Group) and Janak Sarda (Managing Director, Deshdoot Media Group).

The members co-opted at the first managing committee meeting were Nina Elavia Jaipuria (Head – Hindi and Kids TV Network, Viacom18), Neeraj Roy, (Founder, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment), Pradeep Dwivedi (Group CEO, Eros Media World PLC), Kranti Gada (President – New Business Opportunities Shemaroo Entertainment) and I.Venkat (Director, Eenadu Group.)

The invitees to the Managing Committee include the following:

Ramesh Narayan, Founder Canco Advertising Pvt. Ltd.

Neena Dasgupta, CEO & Director Zirca Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Rana Barua, Chief Executive Officer, Havas Group India

Partha Sinha, President, The Times of India Group

Dr Bhaskar Das

Mitrajit Bhattacharya, Founder & President, The Horologists

Sam Balsara, Chairman & Managing Director, Madison Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Alok Jalan, Managing Director, Laqshya Media Group

Rahul Johri, President -Business South Asia, ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Ltd

Rajeev Beotra, Executive Director, HT Media Ltd

Kevin Vaz, Head – Network Entertainment Channels ,Disney Star

Kunal Lalani, Managing Director, Crayons Advertising Pvt Ltd

Ashok Venkatramani, Founder, Intelligent Insights Pvt Ltd

Rani Reddy, Director, Indira Television Ltd.

Monica Nayyar Patnaik, Managing Director, Sambad Group

The International Advertising Association is the world’s only globally-focused integrated advertising trade association with membership representing advertising agencies and the media. The IAA has 56 Chapters with individual members and young professionals from 76 countries, including the top 10 economies in the world. IAA is over 80 years’ old and is headquartered in New York.

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“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!