AAAI elects JWT CEO Colvyn Harris as president

MUMBAI: The Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) has unanimously elected Colvyn Harris, JWT CEO, to replace Mudra Communications MD and CEO Madhukar Kamath, as president for the year 2009-10.
 
Interface Communications executive director Nagesh Alai has been elected as vice president while Neville Gomes, Multimedia Aquarius MD, has been named secretary.
Ashish Bhasin, Carat Media Services chairman, is the treasurer. 
 
Kamath, meanwhile, will play the role of an ex-officio member of the new AAAI executive committee.
 
The other elected members of the executive committee for the ensuing year are MG Parameswaran (DraftFCB+Ulka Advertising), Nakul Chopra (Publicis Communications), Prasoon Joshi (McCann-Erickson), Sam Balsara (Madison Communications), Srinivasan K Swamy (R K Swamy BBDO), Surajit Nag (Advertising & Sales Promotion Company), Tapas Gupta (BEI Confluence Communication), Umesh Shrikhande (Contract Advertising), Vikram Sakhuja (Group M Media India) and Vinod Nair (Network Advertising).