Prasanth Kumar, CEO, South Asia of GroupM Media (India) Pvt Ltd, has been elected because the president of the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) at its annual common frame assembly.
Rana Barua, crew CEO of Havas Group India, used to be elected vice-president of the affiliation. Anupriya Acharya, the outgoing president, would be the ex-officio member of the AAAI board for 2022-23.
“I’m extraordinarily commemorated to be elected president of this prestigious affiliation. Advertising is a dynamic and idea-driven {industry}. Collaboration with {industry} organizations will let us form the {industry} in a modern means that advantages everyone. I stay up for construction synergies with like-minded other people and organizations and I consider that we can succeed in our targets if we paintings in combination,” Prasanth said on the occasion.
He is a GroupM veteran with more than 25 years of experience having worked across the industry. He has also worked at Pepsi, The Hindu, The Media Edge & McCann Erickson before joining GroupM. He has also been vice president of AAAI from 2020 – 2022.
Acharya said it has been “a privilege to carry the place of work of president and take at the duties that include it for the ultimate two years”.
The AAAI, a not-for-profit, industry-led and industry-managed business affiliation of promoting businesses, used to be shaped in 1945.
Other elected individuals of the board:
Vishandas Hardasani (Matrix Publicities and Media India Pvt Ltd)
Kunal Lalani (Crayons Advertising Pvt Ltd)
Rohan Mehta (Kinnect Pvt Ltd)
Chandramouli Muthu Maitri (Advertising Works Pvt Ltd, Cochin)
Sridhar Ramasubramanian (Beehive Communications Pvt Ltd)
Shashidhar Sinha (Initiative Media India Pvt Ltd)
Okay Srinivas (Sloka Advertising Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad)
Vivek Srivastava (Innocean Worldwide Communications Pvt Ltd)
