Campaign India Team
Sep 20, 2019

Madhukar Kamath elected as chairman of ABC

Lokmat's Devendra Darda is vice chairman

Madhukar Kamath elected as chairman of ABC
Madhukar Kamath, chairman emeritus, DDB Mudra Group, has been elected as the chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for the year 2019-2020.
 
Devendra V Darda representing Lokmat Media takes the deputy chairman role. 
 
The members on the ABC Council for the year 2019-20 are as under:
 
Advertising agencies representatives
  • Madhukar Kamath, DDB Mudra chairman
  • Shashidhar Sinha, IPG Mediabrands 
  • Srinivasan K Swamy, RK Swamy BBDO 
  • Vikram Sakhuja, Madison Communications – honorary treasurer
Publishers Representatives
  • Devendra V. Darda - Lokmat Media – deputy chairman
  • Hormusji N. Cama – The Bombay Samachar 
  • Shailesh Gupta - Jagran Prakashan
  • Chandan Majumdar - ABP
  • Raj Kumar Jain - Bennett, Coleman & Co
  • Pratap G. Pawar - Sakal Papers
  • Riyad Mathew - Malayala Manorama Co.–  honorary treasurer  
  • Praveen Someshwar – HT Media 
Advertisers Representatives
  • Mayank Pareek - Tata Motors
  • Karunesh Bajaj - ITC
  • Vivek Nayer - Mahindra & Mahindra 
  • Debabrata Mukherjee - United Breweries
 
Secretariat
  • Hormuzd Masani – secretary general
Source:
Campaign India

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