The Market Research Society of India (MRSI) has announced the formation of its managing committee for the tenure of 2022-2024.
The announcement was made at its 34th annual general body meeting held on 7 July 2022 in Mumbai.
HUL’s global insights director, Manish Makhijani has been elected as the president. He takes over from Sandeep Arora, executive vice president and global head – of research and analytics solutions, Datamatics Global Services.
Makhijani was previously the vice president of MRSI.
Additionally, Paru Minocha, managing director, Kantar, and Saurin Shah, vice president, global insights and CMI, Centre of Excellence, Godrej Consumer Products, were elected as vice presidents.
Furthermore, MRSI has appointed Prashant Kolleri, leader-consumer insights, South Asia, NielsenIQ as its secretary and Nitin Kamat, chief marketing officer, TAM, as its treasurer.
Arora said, “I thank the MRSI members for supporting the current managing committee with their trust, especially when we had to change our course and plans drastically during the unprecedented Covid period. Thankfully, most of the key initiatives (locally and globally) we launched during that time have given a new direction and scale to the vision of the association going forward. I wish the incoming managing committee under the leadership of Manish Makhijani all the best to carry this momentum forward.”