Priya Iyer becomes business director at Percept's Allied Media

Allied Media, the media arm of Percept Limited, has brought aboard Priya Iyer as business director for its South operations. She will report to PM Balakrishna, vice-president, Allied Media, and will be responsible for all aspects of the media business for Allied's South Indian operations in Bengaluru and Chennai, including new business generation. Prior to this, Iyer was director at Catalyst, the strategic consultancy unit of Havas Media.  
 
Iyer has 10 years experience in media planning and buying. She started her career with Starcom, where she looked after media buying in Mumbai and Bengaluru, handling clients such as Fiat Motors, Western Union Money Transfer, South African Breweries, Sun Microsystems and Ferrero Rocher.

She moved to Maxus after six years, where she was group head on various accounts in Kerala and Bengaluru, including Arvind Brands, AMD, and Vodafone's BTL account in Bengaluru and Karnataka. A year later, she moved to Catalyst, where she also worked on some South East Asian brands.

At Catalyst, where she spent about two years, some of the chief accounts she looked after include Reckitt Benckiser, HDFC, and Disney Baby.