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Gurmeet Singh, Business Director at Music Today, has put in his papers to join Rajshri Media as CEO. In Singh’s six-year stint at Music Today, the company consolidated its position in classical music and Sufi music. Singh had earlier worked with Sony BMG for close to four years where he headed their North India operations. He began his career with Mumbai-based Marico Industries and in the five years with them, he handled various sales assignments, besides heading the brand Sil jams.

exchange4media Staff May 16, 2008 11:37 AM

Manoj Gunawardena has been appointed as CEO of Sri Lankan Airlines. Gunawardena has been in the airline for over 25 years and has over 17 years of direct sales and commercial experience with the airline. He was appointed as Head of Worldwide Sales in May 2006 and is currently responsible for the airline’s global sales activities. Prior to being appointed Head of Worldwide Sales, he was Regional Manager, UK, Europe and Americas, a position that he held from 2005.

exchange4media Staff May 16, 2008 11:37 AM

Ramita Chaudhury has been appointed as Station Head of Big FM Kolkata. She replaces Bodhayan Roychoudhury. Chaudhury will report to Rohit Dhar, Regional Director-East, Big FM. In her new role, Chaudhury would be looking after the overall functioning of the Kolkata station, including developing on-air properties for leading brands and providing integrated marketing solutions to clients. She had earlier worked in Hutchison Telecom, where she was responsible for the successful launch of Hutch (nor Vodafone) operations at the state level across West Bengal, apart from effective ground activation programmes, Wunderman India, Imagine Advertising, DIREM, and Lowe as Group Account Head, where she had handled clients like Maruti, Panasonic, Convergys, and Moving Pictures Ltd, among others.

exchange4media Staff May 16, 2008 11:36 AM

Rohan Deshpande has been appointed as Associate Director, Wireless Technology, at Hungama. In his new role, he will be responsible for creating and executing the technology roadmap. In addition, he would analyse the variety of technologies available and identify the systems needed to architect a complete product offering that fits Hungama’s goals. Deshpande brings with him eight years’ experience in the telecom sector. He began his career with Tata Infotech as engineer and has also worked with Bharti Cellular Ltd (Airtel) as Senior Engineer-IN & VAS, Western Region. He also worked with ADC (Metrica) Software Ltd, USA, as Technical Account Manager for India & South East Asia, and SmartTrust AB as Pre-Sales and Program Manager.

exchange4media Staff May 16, 2008 11:35 AM

Contract publisher Spenta Multimedia has been appointed by the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council to publish its bi-monthly magazine, ‘Solitaire International’ from June 2008. The magazine is priced at Rs 150. With this, the number of publications in Spenta Multimedia’s portfolio has gone up to 21.

exchange4media Staff May 16, 2008 10:10 AM

In the last two years, Bangalore has witnessed a plethora of changes – be it the journey from Bangalore to Bengaluru, start of the Metro project and, most importantly, the revival of Sandalwood music. Capturing this spirit of change and the international face of Bengaluru, Radio Mirchi will hit the airwaves with a new, refreshing and addictive sound as part of its second anniversary.

exchange4media Bangalore Bureau May 16, 2008 10:09 AM

Yahoo! India has launched a new search marketing platform that is expected to enable advertisers to do more with their campaigns and gain a higher return on their investments by targeting relevant customers.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau May 16, 2008 10:08 AM

Noshe Oceanic has brought on board well-known photographer Akash Das as Vice-President, Creative. Akashda, as he is known in the industry, is expected to give a new edge to Noshe Oceanic’s aggressive expansion into new segments of the industry.

exchange4media Staff May 16, 2008 10:07 AM

Shankar B is joining E18, one of Network18’s latest ventures, as National Sales Head. He moves from Hello FM, where he had a two-year stint as VP-Sales. He takes charge from May 16 and will be based in Mumbai.

exchange4media Staff May 16, 2008 10:06 AM

Innocean has bagged the business of KEI Wires & Cables. The win comes close on the heels of Aureole Inspecs and Devasthali wins. The media budget of KEI Wires & Cables is pegged at Rs 7-8 crore. Dentsu Communications is the incumbent agency.

exchange4media Staff May 16, 2008 10:05 AM

Maxus has added more business from the Essar Group to its kitty. As is known, Essar was a Maxus client for the erstwhile Essar SpaceTel business, and in 2006, Starcom Worldwide won the Essar Retail Telecom. Essar now is in aggressive mode again, and is looking at releasing communication for its corporate business. Maxus has won this bid. The account size is estimated at around Rs 35 crore.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau May 16, 2008 10:02 AM

Radio Mirchi swept the 33rd RAPA Awards with 13 awards. The Awards are organised by the Radio and Television Advertising Practitioners’ Association of India Ltd (RAPA). This year, over 87 winners were announced across all categories, which includes the RAPA Special Awards Trophy.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau May 16, 2008 10:01 AM

Kaushik Tiwari, Publicis Ambience’s Head of Southern operations, has moved on to float a full-fledged agency called Fresh Lime Communications. Chennai-based Fresh Lime commenced its operations on April 14, with a roster of clients.

Judy Franko May 16, 2008 10:00 AM

Forbes has appointed Naazneen Karmali as India Editor of Forbes Asia and Mumbai Bureau Manager for Forbes magazine. In her new role, Karmali will continue to cover India’s growing industries and companies, and the wealth of India’s richest individuals through the compilation of the annual Forbes India Rich List & Billionaire list.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau May 16, 2008 9:59 AM

Gitanjali Murari has joined Real Global Broadcasting, a Turner-Alva Brothers joint venture, as Head of Content for its soon to-be-launched Hindi general entertainment channel. In the new role, Murari would be responsible for developing and producing content for the channel through third party partners and associates.

exchange4media Staff May 16, 2008 9:58 AM

DNA has promoted R Jagganathan to the post of Executive Editor for all its editions, including Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat and Jaipur. With this move, resident editors of all editions would report to Jagganathan directly. In addition to this, he would also function as Managing Editor of Bhaskar Group’s soon-to-be-launched business daily.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau May 16, 2008 9:57 AM

Sahara One has beefed up its senior management even as it loses a key senior member. Nilanjana Purkayastha and Anita Noronha have come on board as Business Head and Marketing Head, respectively. Meanwhile, Programming Head Kalyan Sundaram has put in his papers.

Tasneem Limbdiwala May 16, 2008 9:56 AM