EEMA announces changes in leadership, grants 48 hours to members for acceptance

President of the Event and Entertainment Management Association (EEMA), Mr Sabbas Joseph, has today announced that a new team is being devised for leading the association. While a few members from the existing leadership team would continue their office the new team promises to see some fresh representation.

Sabbas Joseph is serving his second term as President of EEMA and was re-elected through a unanimous and uncontested selection earlier this year.

Details of the various committees and leadership positions are as follows along with the names of proposed members. Considered members have been given a period of 48 hours to send in their acceptance.


National Advisory Council
This council comprises of senior members of EEMA who have both distinguished themselves in business as well as through their visionary contribution.

Proposed names for NAC include:

Sabbas Joseph
Michael Menezes
Brian Tellis
Roshan Abbas
Sameer Tobaccowalla
Harinder Singh
Mohomed Morani
Sanjoy Roy
Vivek Singh
Deepak Gattani

National Executive Committee
The NEC would have a blend of experience as well as freshness. The majority of the members are new, a few experienced members would continue. Representation has been provided to each of the key cities.Besides the traditional agenda that comprises learning, training, member-development, government engagement, the new committee would also address issues of Health and Safety, Gender sensitivity among others. Development of the regions is being given special focus and a Vice-president is being appointed to focus on the same.

While Sushma Gaikwad was the only female representative in the committee last term, Poonam Lal and Rakhi Kankaria are also being considered this year improving the overall representation of women in the national committee.

Proposed names for NEC include:

Sabbas Joseph President
Mandeep Singh General Secretary
Rajeev Jain Treasurer & VP-Government Engagement
Harinder Singh Senior Vice President
Harjinder Singh (Jindi) VP- Region Development
Sanjeev Pasricha VP- North
Rakhi Kankaria VP- South
Sushma Gaikwad VP- West
Gautam Jain VP- East
Rahul Gomes VP- Industry initiatives
Poonam Lal VP- Gender Equality
Vijay Nair VP- Music Industry and Artistes Engagement

National Working Committee
The National Working Committee would comprise key leaders from the Regional Leadership teams along with the National Executive Committee. Secretaries of each of the key states and the regions along with their vice-presidents would constitute the first-ever EEMA National Working Committee. The National Advisory Council would be invited to meetings of the National Working Committee.

Proposed names for NWC include:

Sabbas Joseph President
Mandeep Singh General Secretary
Rajeev Jain VP- Treasurer
Harinder Singh Senior VP
Harjinder Singh ( Jindi) VP- Region Development
Sanjeev Pasricha VP- North
Rakhi Kankaria VP- South
Sushma Gaikwad VP- West
Gautam Jain VP- East
Rahul Gomes VP- Industry initiatives
Vijay Nair VP- Health & Safety; Artistes Engagement
Poonam Lal VP- Gender Equality
Ankur Kalra Sec- Legal and Music Industry engagement
Mayur Mirwani Sec-North
Syed Sultan Ahmed Sec-South
Harshal Kothari Sec-West
Vijay Bokadia Sec- East
Khurshid Ahmad Sec- Bihar
Vinod Janardhan Sec- Maharashtra
Khantil Mehta Sec-Gujarat
Rishabh Bafna Sec-West Bengal
Siddharth Chaturvedi Sec- Rajasthan
Arun Kumar Sec-Telangana & Andhra Pradesh
Sid Ganeriwala Sec-Tamil Nadu
Serrao Sec- Goa
Taranbir Sec- Jharkhand

Regional Committees for four regions
The Regional Committees are being constituted for each of the regions. Beyond the names that are listed in the Regional Committees, members may continue to offer their active participation either directly to the VP of the Region or to the President.

Proposed names for Regional Committees include:

NORTH

Sanjeev Pasricha VP-North
Mayur Mirwani Sec-North
Siddharth Chaturvedi Sec- Rajasthan
Rajesh Varma Sec -Delhi NCR
Amanveer Singh
Sachin Talwar
Vijay Arora
Amit Gupta
Aditya joshi
Nimit Mehta
Ratika Bhatnagar
Kanishk Singha
Vipul Pandhi
Anushree Aggarwal

SOUTH

Rakhi Kankaria VP-South
Arun Kumar Sec-Telangana & Andhra Pradesh
Sid Ganeriwala Sec-Tamil Nadu
Syed Sultan Ahmed Sec-South
Martin Emmanuel Sec- Kerala
Sanjeev Kapoor Sec-Karnataka
Harish Babu Mentor
Anup Tarafdar

WEST

Sushma Gaikwad VP-West
Harshal Kothari Sec-West
Vinod Janardhan Sec- Maharashtra
Khantil Mehta Sec-Gujarat
Serrao Sec- Goa
Anil Garg (Dynamo)
Rahul Gomes
Mandeep Malhotra
Reema Gupta

EAST

Gautam Jain VP-East
Vijay Bokadia Secretary East
Rishabh Bafna Sec-West Bengal
Khurshid Ahmad Sec - Bihar
Taranbir Sec- Jharkhand
Sanjay Bhandari
Tarsame Mittal Mentor
Usha Uthup Invitee- Ambassador


10 Years of EEMA Celebrations Committee
A special committee has been constituted to mark 10 years of EEMA. It will focus on creating events to highlight the work of EEMA and showcase the same before government, policy makers, media, advertising and marketing fraternity, corporates, artistes and celebrities and the production companies.

Proposed names include:

Sabbas Joseph - Chairman
Sanjoy Roy - Joint Chairman
Michael Menezes - Mentor
Samit Garg - Organising Secretary
Lalit Gattani
Roshan Abbas
Brian Tellis
Sameer Tobaccowalla
Atul Nath
Rajeev Jain
Ratika Bhatnagar
Mandeep Singh
Anjali Pasricha
Sachin Talwar
Sidharth Ganeriwala
Karan Chettri

EEMA’s Health and Safety Council
Jolted by the multiple accidents and unfortunate incidents that have taken place across the events industry, this committee has been formed to focus on safety codes, a safety week, training, workshops, policing the work and implementation of safety standards.

Proposed names for Health & Safety Council include:

Viraf Sarkari - Chairman
Sushma Gaikwad
Avishkar Tendle
Sanjeev Pasricha
Vijay Nair
Warren D'Souza
Manish Mavani
Davinder Wadhwa
Samit Garg
Narinder Singh

EEMAX GLOBAL Organizing Committee
This committee will be responsible for organizing the EEMAX GLOBAL Awards and Convention.

Proposed names include:

Brian Tellis - Chairman
Sushma Gaikwad
Rahul Gomes
Roshan Abbas
Mohomed Morani
Atul Nath
Mandeep Singh
Rajeev Jain
Jaydeep Mehta
Harshal Kothari
Vinod Janardhan
Sunil Kutty Menon
Mandeep Malhotra
Aarti Mattoo
Tanaz Basrur

Music Industry Engagement
A group will comprise of members who will attend to matters regarding the application of the copyright laws and justifiable, viable price points for licensing.
The team will also work with artists, artist management companies and also the supply chain to ensure that EEMA norms are created in conjunction with the fraternity and are upheld by all.

Proposed names include:

Vijay Nair - Chairman
Ankur Kalra - Secretary
Arun Kumar
Sharad Mathur
KJS Gurma

Growth of Regions; Membership Expansion
This special committee has been formed to ensure growth of the association in the region and draw greater memberships from these areas.

Proposed names include:

Harjinder Singh - Chairman
Himanshu Shah
Sharad Mathur
Nimit Mehta
Syed Sultan Ahmad
Sagar Pingali
Anup Tarafdar
Vijay Bokadia
Hari Om Jatiya
Khantil Mehta
Pritesh Sharma

'EEMA All Hands Meet' is slated for July 30 in New Delhi to kick-off meetings of the National Advisory Council, National Executive Committee and the National Working Committee.