I Venkat, director, Eenadu, was unanimously elected as the chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for the year 2016-'17 at the annual general meeting on 23 September. Venkat is also the chairman of MRUC.
Debabrata Mukherjee, vice president – marketing and commercial, India & South West Asia, Coca Cola India, representing advertisers on the council, was unanimously elected deputy chairman.
Other members on the board for the year are:
Publisher representatives:
- I Venkat, Ushodaya Enterprises (chairman)
- Shailesh Gupta, Jagran Prakashan
- Hormusji N Cama, The Bombay Samachar
- Devendra V Darda, Lokmat Media
- Benoy Roychowdhury, HT Media
- Chandan Majumdar, ABP
- Raj Kumar Jain, Bennett, Coleman & Co.
- Pratap G Pawar, Sakal Papers
Advertiser representatives:
- Debabrata Mukherjee, Coca Cola India (deputy chairman)
- Hemant Malik, ITC (honorary secretary)
- Sandip Tarkas, Future Retail
- Mayank Pareek, Tata Motors
- Advertising agencies representatives
- Madhukar Kamath, DDB Mudra (honorary treasurer)
- Shashidhar Sinha, IPG Mediabrands, India
- Srinivasan K Swamy, RK Swamy BBDO
- CVL Srinivas, GroupM Media India
Secretariat
Hormuzd Masani (secretary general)