Mr. Rajiv Rao

National Creative Director,
Ogilvy India.
Date-13th February'10
Topic- ZOOZOO Case study


Mr. Rajiv started his advertising career in 1994. He got his big break when he
joined Ogilvy in 1999 as a creative group head. In a short span of 10
years, he was elevated to the post of National Creator Director, Ogilvy
India.

Mr. Rajiv’s biggest achievement by far has been to create iconic advertising in
a complex Indian landscape. In a country with 22 official languages, his
ideas speak the universally understood visual lingua franca. For the last
ten years he has quietly spearheaded his philosophy of simplicity across
brands and most notably on Vodafone, Orange, Lenovo, Emirates, and many
others.

Over the years, he has won several metals at Cannes, One Show, Clio,
Adfest, CA, Media Spikes and London International Awards. In India, his
work on Vodafone/Orange has won ‘Campaign of the year’, 4 times in a row.
The World Brand Congress also conferred Mr. Rajiv with the Creative Person of
the year award in 2009. In the past he has been invited to be a part of the
jury at the London International Awards and Adfest Asia Pacific. According
to Economic Times India, he has been in the list of top Creative Directors
of the country for the last 5 years.

His most recent campaign - the Vodafone Zoozoos did the unthinkable in
India. It outgunned two of the most passionate topics in India – cricket
and Bollywood. The Vodafone Zoozoo campaign went on to become the most
viewed viral campaign in the world in May 2009, as measured by Ad Age. It
was awarded the Campaign of the year award by CNBC India. Yahoo India lists
the launch of the Vodafone Zoozoos as the 2nd most significant event in
India in 2009.

Other than advertising, he finds his passion in music and occasionally in
sky diving.

Mr. Rupam Ganguly

Marketing Consultant
Date-12th February'10
Last Employment Grey Worldwide, New Delhi – June 07 – January 10 Designation Vice President

Experience Summary

Brand Strategy Consulting , Communication Planning, Creative ideation and judgment , Integrated Marketing Communications ,P&L management, Team building, Talent management, Training

Employment Record:

Experience 20 years - 12 years Advertising, 8 years Marketing

June 2007 – Jan 2010 Grey Worldwide, New Delhi, Vice President & Unit Head

Sept 2002 – Feb 2007 Philips Electronics Ltd Singapore, Director Marketing, Asia-Pacific

Aug 2000 - Sept 2002 Philips India Pte Ltd - General Manager, Consumer & Trade Marketing, Mumbai – India

March 1999 - Aug 2000 Britannia Industries Pte Ltd - A Group Danone company,

Marketing Manager, Bangalore - India

April 1995 - March 1999 Lowe Lintas Advertising Pte Ltd,

Associate Vice President, Bangalore - India

May 1989 – March 1995 MNC Advertising agencies in Delhi (Mudra, Everest, McCann)

Academic Record

MBA, University at Buffalo, New York State

Post Graduate Diploma in Advertising & Public Relations (1989), Indian Institute of Mass Communications, New Delhi – India.

Bachelor of Commerce Degree (1985 -1988), Ness Wadia College of Commerce, Pune University, Pune – India.

Mr. Niret Alva

Chairman,
Miditech
Date- 5th March'10
Topic- Reality of reality shows
Mr. Niret has a long career as reporter, script writer, anchor, producer and director in television. He is a graduate in History from St. Stephen’s College Delhi, has a post graduate diploma in journalism , from the Indian Institute of Mass Communications, is a recipient of a certificate from the Radio Netherlands Training Centre in Hilversum(Holland) for a News and Current Affairs course in Television and has a law degree(LLB) from Mumbai University.
Mr. Niret kicked off as a Trainee Reporter/Scriptwriter with Press Trust of India, Television. Beginning his career when television was still government controlled in the late 1980s he moved on to become a Correspondent with Eyewitness, a monthly independent video news magazine, owned by Hindustan Times Television in 1990. He learned the ropes reporting from all the troubled spots in country and covering subjects as diverse as Indian Attitudes to sex, caste violence, the dangers of the civilian use of the army and the bungled capture of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassin. From documentaries to news stories, youth based programmes and business shows to a soft feature on Bollywood superstar, Aamir Khan, the first five years of Mr. Niret 's career saw him learn television and its many nuances on the job by making mistakes and learning from them, he says. In 1992, he joined his brother Nikhil at Miditech. Teaming up with his brother whom he complimented in talent and temperament, helped the company do series and programmes that were innovative, intriguing, award winning and critic satisfying.
Mr. Niret helped to develop and built major programming brands like Indian Idol, Galli Galli Sim Sim (Sesame Street), Wheels, and Living on the Edge. He is also a world-class television presenter having anchored travel(Great Escape), automobile(Wheels) and environment (Living on the Edge and Earth Report) shows over the course of his career. He’s won an Asian Television Award for Best anchor for “Wheels” for BBC World and has been a runner up twice for the same show. In 2007 , Mr. Niret won a National Award for Excellence in Science based communication in the visual medium. he’s scripted, directed and been associated with several international, award winning documentaries like The Great Descent and Operation Hot Pursuit. A believer in collective intelligence ,he says that Miditech’s team , with its diverse talents, track record and the ability to keep pushing has helped it do shows that seemed impossible at first but joyously elementary at the end. Mr. Niret is set to see what miditech can do in the rapidly evolving television space where yesterday’s content producers are today’s broadcasters and where today’s telecom providers may well be tomorrow’s broadcasters unless of course broadcasters have morphed into something entirely new before that.
Mr. Niret is married toMiss Anuja Chauhan, Executive Vice president and Executive Creative Director at JWalterThomson, India’s biggest advertising agency. . They have three children, Niharika(12), Nayantara(9) and Daivik(6). They live with Eppa who was a care giver to Mr. Niret , when he was in his teens and now care giver and cook to Mr. Niret , Miss Anuja and their children and Django a year old Tibetan apso in Gurgaon, outside New Delhi........Mr. Niret loves reading, meditating, sleeping and watching movies in a theater whenever possible.

Mr. M.PRABAKARAN

Sr. Vice President (Supply & Trading)
Reliance Industries Ltd.(Petroleum Divn.)
Topic-Integrated Supply Chain
Date- 24th Feb'10
28 Yrs of work experience in Public and Private sector Oil Companies in India heading very senior positions in Logistics/ Supply & Distribution/ Planning/ Strategy and Industry-Governmental Coordination representing Organization at senior levels
Educational Qualification :
Post Graduate in Business Management
Countries Visited for Business / Conferences/ Seminars : Singapore / Malaysia/ Thailand
USA / UK /France/ Italy/Holland/Kenya/Tanzania/Israel/
Professional accolades :
Member of the of the World Body “Council For Supply Chain Mgt. Professionals”
Participated in several International Seminars/Conferences viz.
Asia Pacific Petroleum Exhibition and Conference at Singapore
Advanced Programme on “Change Mgt.” at MIT Houston (USA)
Headed the Joint Task Force of Shell (London) and Bharat Petroleum to study Strategic alliance in Indian Aviation sector under “Open Sky policy”.
Headed the Logistics Chapter in Sundararajan Committee constituted by Govt. of India for Restructuring Indian Oil Industry .

Arbinda Mohanty

Vice President

Supply Chain Management & Logistics

A2Z Group

Date-24th February '10

Air Commodore Arbinda Mohanty,VSM (Retd) , is not new to PUNE. He is an alumnus of National Defence Academy , Khadakwasla . On his graduation from NDA and Air Force Administrative College , he was commissioned in the IAF in 1973. He was awarded Post Graduation degree by Madras University in Defence Studies on his successfully completion of prestigious course at Defence Services Staff College ,Wellington in 1982.He further went on to do his PG Dip in Mgmt with Materials Management /OR as specialization in 1985
During his career in IAF for over 35 years as a logistician , he managed Military Logistics and Supply Chain systems across the entire Indian terrain and specialized both on Western and Eastern border areas. In recognition of his professionalism and exemplary services, he was twice commended by The Chief of Air Staff and finally honoured with Presidential award in 2001, Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM). After being gainfully utilized by IAF in multifarious Logistics activities ,he finally reached the post of Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Inventory Management) at Air HQrs in New Delhi. He took voluntary retirement in 2007 to utilize his wide and varied experience in civil sector
Initially he did a stint with a Dubai based MNC trading in paper as Director and looked after its Asia And Africa operations. This was followed by a tenure with Jai Prakash Associates , who have their tentacles in field of Power Generation, Education, Hotel Management and Real Estate. At present , he heads the Supply Chain Management & Logistics vertical, as Vice President in A2Z Group at Gurgaon, which is extending its arms in area of Power distribution, Waste Management,hospitality management and now making forays into Power Generation. He is life Member of the Aeronautical Society of India and Indian Institute of Materials Management.

Mr. Madan Mohan

Executive VP
Publicis
Date- 27th Feb'10
Mr. Madan Mohan is a Marketing & Advertising professional with over 16 years experience with high level of exposure to Telecom, Packaged Goods and Financial industries.His experience of working with advertising agencies like LINTAS, Publicis, TBWA was augmented by a stint with BPL Mobile, where he was responsible for all Marketing Communication & Brand management activities and for the brand in Mumbai.
He was also involved in two very high decibel "New Brand Launches" in Mumbai namely Maxtouch (now Vodafone) and DNA. He would like to think of himself as a typical adman and completely loves what he does. He recently moved to Publicis from TBWA where for the past 4 years he was responsible for the western India operations.