Sanjay Kaul re-elected as President of RMAI

Mr Sanjay Kaul has been re-elected as President of Rural Marketing Association of India (RMAI).

Accepting the honor Kaul stated, “Over past two years you would have witnessed the dynamism RMAI has ushered in its operating environment to cater to the changing needs of our members. We have made enormous strides in initiating relevant knowledge properties, scaling up award properties, enhanced meaningful engagement with industry and energised our stakeholders at the same time I am mindful that lot more needs to be done. I thank all outgoing team members for their enormous contribution and support that they extended during the period.

As I assume this role, I am aware a wonderful team with exceptional knowledge, expertise and sense of service backs me. I am glad many new members have volunteered to join the leadership team. I look forward to working with each of them to accomplish our goals and contribute to the overall mission of RMAI.”

The new team of RMAI includes:

Vice President - Raj Kr Jha, Consultant, Ogilvy Advertising,
Secretary and Treasurer - Dr. Anup Kalra, Executive Director, Ayurvet Ltd
Joint Secretary - Himanshu Shah, Chief Mentor, SOI Live Marketing

National Executive Team

Puneet Vidyarthi, General Manager and Head Rural Business & Digital Innovations, JCB India Ltd
Punit Chadha, General Manager, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd
Siddhartha Chaturvedi, CEO, Event Crafter
Nikhil Sharma, Partner, MART
Aroop Bose, National Sales Manager at HLL Lifecare Ltd
PawanBansal, Chief Operating Officer, Jagran Solutions
AnirbanChaudhuri, Sr Vice President & Executive Planning Director, J Walter Thompson
Sanjay Pragat, Managing Director, Vision Force

This year RMAI has added a West chapter headed by Vice President (West) Sanjay Panigrahi, President Rurban & Special Projects, Pidilite Industries Ltd.

Executive Committee (West)

Mr. Biswabaran Chakrabarty, Vice President (Brand and Channel Management), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd,
Prashant Mandke, Vice Preident& Head, Anugrah Madison;
Mridula Shekhar, Head Marketing (Retail Business), Tata Steel Global Wires;
Veerendra Jamdade, Founder Director and CEO at Vritti Solutions Ltd;
Arvind Sonmale, Managing Director & CEO, Sustainable Agro Finance Ltd;
Khurram Askari, Director, Insight Outreach Pvt Ltd.

New EC team plans to build a road map built on following areas:

• How to improve and help grow our business
• Ways to foster new knowledge and collaboration
• Work towards safeguarding the interests of our members
• Help set the standards and encourage best practices