Board of Directors
Mr. R.V.Rajan
Chairman
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Education
B.Com (Hons) – Bombay University
PG Diploma in Advertising & Public Relations – Rajendra Prasad College of Mass Communication, Bombay.
Experience
Over 42 years in advertising with Clarion, Grant Kenyon & Eckhardt and Anugrah handling a wide variety of consumer, industrial and agri input products.
Positions Held
- Founder and Managing Director of Anugrah Marketing & Advertising Services Pvt. Ltd.
- Past President of Public Relations Society of India, Tamil Nadu Chapter
- Past President – Advertising Club Madras
- Past Chairman – Madras West Round Table No. 10
- Past President – Rotary Club of Madras South
- Ex-member of Executive Committee of Advertising Agencies Association of India
- Secretary – Asian Media Information Centre of India, an NGO with headquarters in Singapore and Managing Director of Ifra India Pvt. Ltd., a Press Development Agency with headquarters in Germany
- Visiting faculty on Rural Communication at several Management Institutes across India
- A regular contributor of articles on Rural Marketing to leading business publications
- Founder President, Rural Marketing Association of India (RMAI) & recipient of RMAI Lifetime Achievement Award in Rural Marketing during the year 2009
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Mr. Sam Balsara
Director:
Anugrah Madison
Chairman and Managing Director:
Madison Communications, Mumbai
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Education
MMS from Bombay University
Experience
Over two decades in marketing and advertising with Sarabhai’s, Cadbury’s, Contract, Mudra and Madison
Positions Held
- Past President of the Ad Club – Bombay, Member of the Executive Committee, Advertising Agencies Association of India, on board of Governors of Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) and member, NRSC.
- Prominent member of the Indian advertising and marketing community
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R.Seshadri
Managing Director
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Experience
- Started career as Trainee Account Executive in 1979 at Clarion Advertising, Bombay, handling multinational accounts like Geoffrey Manners, Richardson Hindustan (now Procter & Gamble) and major national accounts like Vazir Sultan Tobacco (ITC)
- Later moved on to Ulka Advertising, Bombay, and rose to become Group Manager in charge of prestigious clients like Voltas, Godrej, HDFC, Singapore Airlines and Agfa.
- Joined Anugrah in 1988 as Client Service Director
- Over 18 years’ experience in Rural Marketing
- Has been a part of several rural research projects and ground level implementation across the country
- A regular speaker at seminars and workshops on the subject of Rural Marketing
- Also a visiting faculty in several Management Institutes in the South
- Past President of Advertising Club Madras
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M.P. Nandakumar
Director
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Education
M.A., M.Phil. in Hindi Literature
Experience
- Started career as a journalist editing a Hindi magazine before switching to advertising
- Started advertising career with Grant Kenyon & Eckhardt – Bombay, as language Copy Coordinator handling Indian language copy for Colgate and other multinational clients
- Can conceive campaigns in Hindi and two South Indian languages apart from English
- Two decades in advertising in both Creative and Client Service
- Specialized in agri-input and unconventional rural communications
- With Anugrah since 1986
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