ASCI gets new board
18 Sep 2009
The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has a new board of directors. Prof Dhananjay Keskar, director, IBS (a leading B-School), was unanimously elected chairman of the board at its board meeting held in Mumbai yesterday.
Rajiv Dube, president (passenger car business unit), Tata Motors Ltd, was elected vice-chairman, and Vikram Sakhuja, COO - South Asia, GroupM Media India, was elected honorary treasurer.
The new board of governors now:
Advertisers: Narendra Ambwani (Johnson & Johnson), Shantanu Khosla (Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Health Care), Gopal Vittal (Hindustan Unilever)
Media: Bhaskar Das (Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd.), Vikram Kaushik (Tata Sky Ltd), G Krishnan (TV Today), I Venkat (Eenadu)
Advertising Agencies: Madhukar Kamath (Mudra Communications), Arvind Sharma (Leo Burnett), Srinivasan Swamy (RK Swamy BBDO)
Allied Professions: Dilip Cherian (Perfect Relations), Pranesh Misra (Brandscapes Consultancy), Partha Rakshit (The Nielsen Company)