Srinivasan Swamy to head India chapter of International Advertising Association
05 Nov 2012
Srinivasan K Swamy, popularly known as Sundar Swamy, chairman RK SWAMY BBDO has been elected president of the India chapter of the International Advertising Association (IAA) for 2012-13.
He takes over from Kaushik Roy, president, brand strategy and marketing communications, Reliance Industries.
An industry veteran Swamy was till recently the chairman of Confederation of Asian Advertising Agency Associations. He has also been a past president of Advertising Agencies Association of India for three years between 2004 and 2007.
IAA represents marketers, agencies and the media it had a very important role to play in developing the communication industry in the country and across the globe.
Kunal Lalani of Crayons Advertising was elected vice president, Monica Tata from Turner is the new secretary and Jaideep Gandhi of Jaya Advertising the treasurer.
The new managing committee comprises Avinash Pandey, M.G.Parameswaran, Neeraj Roy, Raj Nayak and Sam Balsara. The new committee also co-opted Ramesh Narayan, Shreyams Kumar, Arunabh Das Shrama, Abhisek Karnani, Manish Advani and Neville Taraporewala as its members.
