Advertising Club of Bombay elects Raj Nayak as president

MUMBAI: The Advertising Club of Bombay has unanimously elected Raj Nayak, chief executive officer of Colors, the Hindi general entertainment channel of Viacom18 as its president following its annual general meeting (AGM) on September 16. Nayak replaces Pratap Bose, chairman and cofounder, The Social Street, who will now be the immediate past president.

Sources in the managing committee disclose that Nayak was slated to take over from October. But following the huge security lapse at Emvies awards held by the Club on September 11 where a journalist was assaulted by a desultory attendee the committee decided that Nayak should take over immediately.

The new officers who were elected to the Club, includes, Bhaskar Das, group chief executive officer of Zee Media Corporation as the vice-president, Vikram Sakhuja, senior media and marketing professional as the secretary, Ajay Kakkar, chief marketing officer, Aditya Birla Group, financial services as the joint secretary and Shashi Sinha, CEO of IPG Mediabrands India, as the treasurer.

Ramesh Narayan, founder, Canco Advertising had been Co-Opted to the Managing Committee. Prasoon Joshi, CEO of McCann World Group India and Chairman (Asia Pacific), has been inducted as special invitee and creative advisor to the Ad Club. Satyaki Ghosh, Director-Consumer Product Division L'Oreal India, has also been inducted as a special Invitee.