R Seshadri re-elected as president, Ad Club of Madras

Televisionpoint.com Correspondent | Chennai
R Seshadri, managing director, Anugrah Madison Advertising, has been re-elected as the president, Advertising Club Madras for the year 2009-10. He has held several positions in the club over the years, including that of secretary before he was elected the 37th president of the club last year.

A commerce graduate from the University of Bombay, Seshadri started his career in advertising in 1979 as a trainee account executive in Clarion Advertising Services, Mumbai. Later, he moved to Ulka Advertising and after a nine year stint in advertising in Mumbai, he moved to Chennai in 1988 as client service director, Anugrah Madison (a part of Madison World that functions as the Rural Communication Division of Madison).

Seshadri's association with the Ad Club started when he moved to Chennai in 1988. To begin with, he was associated with the club as a faculty in its part time course on Advertising Management, held jointly with MMA (Madras Management Association) at that time. Later, he continued to be associated with the club's part time Diploma Course in Advertising (PGDA), launched in 1994, as a guest faculty.

In 2001-02, he became an executive committee (EC) member of the Ad Club and has been a part of it ever since, holding various positions such as convenor in charge of workshops and seminars, sports, quiz, the club's e-magazine, secretary for a period of two years, and then, vice-president. He was elected the president in 2008-09.

Several other office bearers and executive committee members have also been elected. They include P Subramanian (from O&M), vice-president; N Baaghyalaksmi (from Out of Home Media), secretary; S Sadhasivan (from Layam Advertising), treasurer; and Karthic Moorthy (from Elegant Publicities), joint secretary.

Members of the executive committee includes Ninan Thariyan (from Times of India), LV Navneeth (from Radio One), Seshadri Iyer (from TV18), KR Skandraaj (from Sovereign Media Marketing), Vijay Jacob Parakkal (from Bates India) and J Janardhanan (from Rediffusion Y&R).

V Kalidas (from The Hindu) and Jagannath Ramaswamy (from Crystal), both ex-presidents, have also been nominated to the executive committee.