IAA India Chapter: Rewind 2012-'13, as Srinivasan Swamy starts second term as president

Srinivasan Swamy, chairman and managing director, R K Swamy BBDO, has been re-elected president of the India Chapter of the International Advertising Association (IAA), for the year 2013-‘14.

Neeraj Roy, MD and CEO, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, was elected vice president. Jaideep Gandhi, chairman, Jaya Advertising, and Monica Tata, MD, HBO India, were re-elected treasurer and secretary respectively.

The office bearers were announced post the annual general meeting of the IAA in Mumbai on 25 September 2013.

“IAA India was on an overdrive in 2012-‘13 under the leadership of Srinivasan Swamy,” said Pradeep Guha, vice president and area director - Apac, IAA.

In the 11 months since the previous AGM, the industry body hosted the IAA Leadership Awards, IAA Seminar on Gender Sensitization, IAA Olive Crown Awards, IAA Debates, IAA Mentorship Webinars, IAA Knowledge Seminar on Real Estate in a Digitised World, IAA Kyoorius Digiyatra, and is slated to host an IAA Platinum Jubilee ‘Global Marketing Summit’ on 30 September.

“I am happy I was at the helm at IAA when many new initiatives were planned and unfolded. I had a great team who executed much of these programmes with élan. As we move forward, our aim at IAA India is to be seen by IAA Global as the most vibrant of all IAA chapters worldwide. I am sure that recognition is not far,” said Swamy.

The other members of the managing committee for 2013-’14 are: Pradeep Guha, Pheroza Bilimoria, Kaushik Roy, Sam Balsara, Raj Nayak, Ramesh Narayan, M G Parameswaran, MV Shreyams Kumar, Kunal Lalani, Avinash Pandey, Arunabh Dassharma, Neville Taraporewalla, Partho Das Gupta, Rajesh Kejriwal, Abhishek Karnani, Manish Advani, Janak Sarda, Vishakha Singh, CVL Srinivas and Atit Mehta.

Here's a snap shot of IAA India Chapter events in the last one year, from the Campaign India archives (click to revisit events, videos, photo galleries and announcements):

Srinivasan K Swamy is IAA India chapter president

Third edition of Olive Crown Awards in March 2013 (December 2012)

IAA India Chapter institutes Leadership Awards for ad, marketing and media pros (January 2013)

IAA Olive Crown Awards expands in third year, calls for entries from across Asia (January 2013)

IAA Leadership Awards focuses on ambition, courage and excellence (January 2013)

Stop VOW: IAA’s Gender Sensitisation initiative takes wing (January 2013)

Nominees for IAA Leadership Awards announced (January 2013)

More nominees announced for IAA Leadership Awards (February 2013)

IAA Leadership Awards ‘13: Sam Balsara is media agency head of the year, Piyush Pandey creative agency head (February 2013)

Images from IAA Leadership Awards 2013 (February 2013)

IAA Leadership Awards: I&B Minister Manish Tewari assures to take industry into confidence on media policies (February 2013)

Speakers announced for IAA gender sensitisation seminar in Mumbai on 16 February (February 2013)

IAA VOW: ‘The advertising community needs to be more sensitive’ (February 2013)

Images from IAA's gender sensitisation seminar (February 2013)

Images from Campaign India IAA Debates - Mumbai (February 2013)

IAA Debates: 'Print and TV have been growing and will continue to do so' (February 2013)

Video: IAA’s VOW Gender Sensitisation Seminar in Mumbai (February 2013)

Video: IAA Debate: Print and television are not losing relevance with growth of digital (March 2013)

Praful Patel to grace IAA Olive Crown Awards in Mumbai on 1 April (March 2013)

VIDEO: Has role of creative agencies become more important with media fragmentation? (1) (March 2013)

VIDEO: Has role of creative agencies become more important with media fragmentation? (2) (April 2013)

Grey’s ‘green’ campaign delivers ‘Killer’ punch at Olive Crown Awards (April 2013)

Images from IAA Olive Crown Awards 2013 (April 2013)

VIDEO: Has role of creative agencies become more important with media fragmentation? (3) (April 2013)

Dainik Bhaskar presents IAA Debate, Goa: With media fragmentation, has role of creative agencies become more important? (April 2013)

Images from IAA Debates - Goa (April 2013)

IAA Debate Verdict: Media fragmentation has not made the role of the creative agencies more important (April 2013)

IAA announces webinar series 'World Goes Digital' (April 2013)

VIDEO: IAA Debate Verdict: Media fragmentation has not made the role of the creative agencies more important (April 2013)

IAA Webinar: ‘Unless you’re selling to people outside the planet, it’s important to be on the internet’: Google’s Rajan Anandan (May 2013)

Video: Curtain Raiser 1: IAA Debates Delhi - ‘Creative awards can also be given for differentiated one-off expressions’ (May 2013)

Video: Curtain Raiser 2: IAA Debates Delhi - ‘Creative awards can also be given for differentiated one-off expressions’ (May 2013)

Video: Curtain Raiser 3: IAA Debates Delhi - ‘Creative awards can also be given for differentiated one-off expressions’ (May 2013)

Video: Curtain Raiser 4: IAA Debates Delhi - ‘Creative awards can also be given for differentiated one-off expressions’ (May 2013)

Kyoorius Awards launched in partnership with D&AD and IAA India Chapter (May 2013)

IAA Debates Delhi: ‘Rationality and creativity in advertising are not mutually exclusive’ (May 2013)

Images from IAA Debates Delhi: ‘Creative awards can also be given for differentiated one-off expressions’ (May 2013)

VIDEO: IAA Debates Delhi Verdict: ‘Creative awards can also be given for differentiated one-off expressions’ (May 2013)

IAA Webinar series: Rediff.com’s Ajit Balakrishnan up next on ‘World Goes Digital’ (May 2013)

IAA Webinar: ‘The next phase of internet will come from a creative genius and not a technological guru’: Rediff.com’s Ajit Balakrishnan (May 2013)

IAA: Srinivasan Swamy entrusted with Apac role; Pradeep Guha re-appointed area director (June 2013)

IAA Webinar Series: LinkedIn's Nishant Rao to speak on 'World Goes Digital' (June 2013)

IAA Webinar: 'We are still in the process of evolution to ‘always on’ marketing models’: LinkedIn’s Nishant Rao (June 2013)

Dainik Bhaskar to present fourth IAA Debate in Bengaluru on 26 July (July 2013)

IAA Debates Bengaluru presented by Dainik Bhaskar: It’s Arun Anant and Partha Sinha versus Ashok Lalla and Zerin Rahman (July 2013)

IAA Webinar: SAP's Julie Roehm up next on ‘World Goes Digital’ series (July 2013)

You have to have commitment and belief from the top for storytelling to work’: SAP’s Julie Roehm (July 2013)

Images from IAA Debates Bengaluru: ‘Social media is not a good business’ (July 2013)

IAA Debates Bengaluru: The verdict: ‘Social media is not a good business’ (July 2013)

IAA knowledge seminar for the realty sector on digital media (July 2013)

'Digital provides the opportunity to identify audience on the basis of intent': Tushar Vyas, GroupM (August 2013)

'Each medium has a role’: Nitin Bawankule, Google (August 2013)

Video: IAA Debates Bengaluru: ‘Social media is not a good business’ (August 2013)

IAA Knowledge Seminar: ‘Real Estate in a Digitised World’ (August 2013)

Kyoorius 2013: ‘The problem isn’t with man or machine but in the communication between them’ (August 2013)

Kyoorius 2013: The ‘second electricity’, unconnected minority, fluidity (August 2013)

IAA Webinar series to feature Bookmyshow's Hemrajani next (September 2013)