MUMBAI: Publicis Communications India CEO Nakul Chopra has been elected president of Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) for the year 2016-2017 at its Annual General Body Meeting. This comes after he successfully served as the chairman of Goafest Organising Committee for year 2016.
Following this announcement, AAAI also selected Dentsu Aegis Network south Asia CEO and chairman Ashish Bhasin as the vice-president of the association.
Other members of the Executive Committee in alphabetical order are:
C V L Srinivas Group M Media India Pvt Ltd
Ganesh Baliga Fifth Estate Communications Pvt Ltd
Kunal Lalani Crayons Advertising Ltd
Pranav Premnarayen Prem Associates Advertising & Marketing
Rana Barua Contract Advertising (India) Pvt Ltd
Srinivasan K Swamy R K SWAMY BBDO Pvt Ltd
T Gangadhar Mediaedge:Cia India Pvt Ltd
Vivek Srivastava Innocean Worldwide Communication Pvt Ltd
Immediate Past President, Dr M G Parameswaran will be the ex-officio member of the new AAAI Executive Committee.
The Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) is the national organisation of advertising agencies, formed in 1945, to promote their industry interests so that they continue to make an essential and ever-increasing contribution to the nation. The AAAI today is truly representative, with a very large number of small, medium and large-sized agencies as its members, who together account for almost 80% of the advertising business placed in the country.