Good Wishes to Payaswini Upadhyay for joining Bloomberg Quint as a Deputy Editor. She was previously associated with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. as an Associate and later CNBC TV18 as a Special Correspondent. She has also worked with Bloomberg UTV, ET Now, and The Economic Times as a Senior Assistant Producer, Assistant Producer, and Correspondent respectively. She primarily writes on Business & Economy. Connect with this Mumbai based journalist @payaswinillb.
» Heartiest congratulations to Raj Gunashekar, RJ @Rainbow 101.3 FM for joining Thomson Reuters as a Multimedia Journalist. He previously contributed to BioSpectrum Magazine as a Senior Correspondent and Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Ltd. as an Instructional Designer/ Technical Writer. He has also worked as a Citizen Journalist at CNN-IBN and interned at All India Radio News, Radio Indigo FM, and CNN-IBN. He has been awarded for Best Instructional Design Delivery in 2012 and 2013, volunteering and penning the script for Bosch’s Earth Day skit (2013), and photography in weekly photo contests by The Hindu, titled “Slice of Bangalore” (2013) and “Caught Snapping” (2015). Raj also took home a bronze medal in the TCS World 10K Marathon (2013).This Bangalore based Blogger at ‘i-rock-the-nation‘ can be reached @RAJ_GunashekaR.
Aneeta Thanawalla moves up the ladder and is now the Senior Account Director at DigitasLBi, after working as a Group Account Manager since 2013. Her glorious career started way back in 2009, when she joined Interactive Realities as a Client Servicing team member, from where she moved on to Webchutney for a 2-year long stint. She joined Webchutney as a Senior Account Executive and then went on to become Account Manager and managed some of the biggest brands like Lakme, Pepe Jeans, Westside, Zee TV among a plethora of others before finally joining DigitasLBi. Congratulations @AneetaT!
The talented Sneha Paul is promoted to the post of Senior Account Executive at Edelman, in a journey that started when she joined the organization as an Account Executive in 2015. Sneha started her career in Kolkata as an Editorial Intern with The Times Group in 2011 and then was a Production Intern at 92.7 BIG FM for a year in 2012. Sneha, meanwhile, kept on pursuing her writing interests and worked with Ashoka as Content Writer, and with The Times Group again for a short period before associating with The Statesman as an Editorial Intern in 2013. She has also worked with the Non -Profit Organization, CRY in 2014 for a couple of months in Kolkata. All the best @SnehaPaul!
Best wishes to Sharleen D’Souza for joining BloombergQuint as Principal Correspondent. She was earlier associated with Cogencis Info Service Ltd. as Journalist, The Financial Express as Senior Correspondent, Business Standard as Senior Reporter, and Ticker News as Reporter. Connect with this Mumbai based scribe @sharleendsouza.
Heartiest Congratulations to Aakriti Agarwal for joining Weber Shandwick as Consultant. She was earlier associated with 20:20 MSL as Senior Account Executive. She started her PR journey in 2013 as Account Coordinator at Text100, and later did a stint at Weber Shandwick as Associate. Previously she had interned at various prestigious media outlets like Bangalore Mirror, NDTV, CNBC TV18, and All India Radio. We wish her best of luck for her future endeavors. Connect with Bangalore based avid photographer and tech fanatic @agrlaakriti.
Wishing truckloads of luck & success for Rashmi Shetty, for starting out with Storytellers 101 PR. An experienced campaigner with over 15 years of experience, she started her journey with Weber Shandwick as a Senior Account Manager then worked with various prestigious organizations like Venture Infotek Global Pvt Ltd. & Bharti Airtel Ltd. From there she moved on to iMagic Image Consultants as a Managing Partner & before the inception of Storytellers 101 PR, she was the Senior Account Director at Edelman India Pvt. Ltd. Congratulations on such an illustrious career Rashmi! Connect with this Mumbaikar @rashmi_0202.
Best wishes to Ramananda Sengupta for joining The New Indian Express as Senior Associate Editor. He was earlier associated with Sidnet Digitalia as a Consulting Partner. He has also contributed to Indian Defence Review as Consulting Editor, Swarajya as Consultant, Istream.com & india.com as the Editor-in-Chief, Sify Technologies as Editor-in-Chief, Rediff.com as Deputy Managing Editor, Outlook Magazine as Foreign Desk Editor, and The Telegraph as Foreign Page Editor. He has been honored by ‘Top Gun’ award from Rediff.com (2000). He is also the Founder-President at New Delhi chapter of Commonwealth Journalists Association. Connect with this Delhi based scribe @Ramananda.
Anirban Sen starts his new innings with Mint and Hindustan Times as Contributing Writer. He had earlier worked with The Economic Times as Principal Correspondent, Mint/Hindustan Times as Staff Writer, Thomson Reuters as Correspondent and later as Online Producer, Press Association as Production Journalist, and Synergic as Copy Writer. He also contributed to The Hindu, Deccan Herald, and Citizens Matter as a Freelance Writer in 2009. He did his internship with The Times of India and Levi’s India’s online portal. Connect with Bangalore based startup, technology and e-commerce journalist, Anirban @ASenjourno. Synergic kya hai? We might want to mention.
Heartiest congratulations to Karishma Desai for joining iProspect as Public Relations Manager. She was earlier associated with Text100 as Account Manager. During her stint at Text100, she won 2 awards – ‘MD Awards’ for Best People Manager and ‘TextFactor’ Awards for the Best Client Management Team of the Year 2015 for Maruti Suzuki. Prior to this she worked at Genesis Burson-Marsteller as Senior Associate where she was a part of the award-winning team for the ‘Pepsi Change the Game’ campaign at the WPPED Cream Awards in 2011. In 2007 and 2008 she was associated with Magna Publications and Balaji Telefilms respectively. Mumbai based blogger at ‘
» Congrats to Santanu Bhattacharya for getting promoted as Senior Consultant cum Senior AD at Text100. His previously essayed the role of Client Servicing Director at Text100. He was earlier associated with IPAN HILL & KNOWLTON as Senior Associate Director, Text100 as Senior Account Manager, HCL Infosystems Limited as Territory Manager, Genesis Burson-Marsteller as Senior Associate and Perfect Relations/Image Public Relations as Assistant Manager. Connect with Gurgaon based Santanu @getsanta.
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Good wishes to Shine Jacob for joining Business Standard as Assistant Editor. He was previously associated with HT Mint as Staff Writer, Business Standard as Principal Correspondent, The Times of India, and Indian Television. Shine also had a brief stint as a Freelance Writer in 2015. He received the ‘Best Journalist Award for Business Reporting’ in the fourth edition of the Journalism Awards for his report titled ‘Typewriters about to become a page in history’ in Business Standard. Connect with this Kerala based journalist @shinejac.
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