Ashish Bhasin, Chairman & CEO South Asia, Dentsu Aegis Network Media India, has been elected as the President of Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) for 2018-2019 at its annual general body meeting held today.
Anupriya Acharya, CEO, Publicis Media India, was elected Vice-President of the Association.
Other members of the Executive Committee are CVL Srinivas of Group M Media India, Kalyan Sarkar of Standard Publicity, Kunal Lalani of Crayons Advertising, and Pranav Premnarayen of Prem Associates Advertising & Marketing. Immediate Past President Nakul Chopra will be the ex-officio member of the new AAAI Executive Committee.
The AAAI is the apex national organisation of advertising agencies, formed in 1945. It has a large number of small, medium and large-sized agencies as its members, who together account for almost 80 per cent of the advertising business.