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Kaushik Roy re-elected as prez IAA – India Chapter, Swamy is VP
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries president – Brand Strategy & Marketing Communication Kaushik Roy has been re-elected as the president of the India Chapter of the International Advertising Association (IAA-IC) for the year 2011-12.
Roy was elected unanimously for the second term at IAA-IC’s annual general meeting held in Mumbai.
In his first term as president, Roy had launched India’s first Green Award – Olive Crown for creative excellence in communicating sustainability. The IAA-IC also conducted a seminar on the agency of the future entitled ‘Agency 2.5’ by Tim Williams of the USA.
Meanwhile, RK Swamy BBDO CMD Srinivasan K Swamy, who was the honorary secretary of the India Chapter for the past two years, is the new vice president.
The new managing committee includes:
MG Parameswaran as Hon. Secretary
Jaideep Gandhi as Hon. Treasurer
Sam Balsara (Member)
Ramesh Narayan (Member)
Avinash Pandey (Member)
Kunal Lalani (Member)
Neeraj Roy (Co-opted Member)
Bhaskar Das (Member)
Raj Nayak (Ex officio) Immediate Past President.
Pheroza Bilimoria (Special Invitee) Global Hon Secretary and Member of the World Board.
Pradeep Guha (Special Invitee) Global VP and Area Director, Asia Pacific and Member of the World Board
Spread over 56 Chapters in 76 Countries with over 4,000 members worldwide, the IAA champions advertising as a force for growth in all free market societies.
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Ember Cookware appoints Amit Singh as chief of supply chain
10-year veteran to lead operations as brand scales across D2C, quick commerce and retail.
MUMBAI: Ember just handed its supply chain the perfect seasoning because when your cookware is non-toxic and non-stick, the operations behind it better be fast and flawless. Ember Cookware has appointed Amit Singh as chief of supply chain and Services, bolstering its leadership team at a pivotal growth phase. Singh brings over a decade of experience in supply chain strategy, operations and large-scale network buildouts.
He began his career at Singapore-based retail giant Giant Hypermarket before joining Pharmeasy in 2015, where he played a foundational role in building and scaling its pan-India supply chain across B2B and B2C channels. At API Holdings, he later led supply chain operations for North India, managing end-to-end execution across complex, multi-city networks.
In his new role, Amit will oversee Ember’s complete supply chain and service ecosystem including sourcing, manufacturing coordination, logistics, last-mile delivery, post-purchase support and workforce development. His mandate focuses on building cost-efficient, resilient operations that shorten fulfilment times, strengthen inventory management and deliver a consistently high-quality consumer experience as the brand expands nationally.
Ember Cookware co-founder & CEO Siddharth Gadodia said, “Supply chain is where growth either holds or breaks. As we scale across channels and geographies, we need operations that are efficient, resilient, and built for speed, without ever compromising on the consumer experience. Amit has done this before, at real scale.”
Ember Cookware co-founder & CMO Himanshi Tandon added, “As we scale, supply chain efficiency becomes as important as product and brand. Amit’s mandate is to build the operational foundations that make our promise consistent at scale.”
Amit Singh commented, “Ember is building something genuinely different, a category-defining brand with a clear purpose and the ambition to match. I’m looking forward to building supply chain infrastructure that doesn’t just keep pace with growth, but enables it.”
The appointment forms part of Ember’s broader push to deepen leadership across key functions as it invests in its Innovation Lab, proprietary material technologies and operational backbone to support national expansion.
In a kitchenware world where non-stick promises are easy but delivery is hard, Ember isn’t just cooking up products, it’s cooking up an operation that keeps every promise sizzling from factory to fork.
