MUMBAI: Starcom Mediavest Group today announced promotions for three key individuals in its Indian operations. With immediate effect, Starcom India West/South MD Ravi Kiran, will move up to CEO of Starcom South Asia – which covers India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.
 
 

Starcom Delhi executive director Anita Nayyar moves up to managing director, India – North. Also Starcom general manager Manish Porwal moves up to executive director, India – West.

In order to preserve the dual management structure which was put in place in February 2003, and has driven some spectacular success, Starcom India will continue to have sub regions reporting in to Kiran.
 
 

What this means is that the Bangalore and Chennai office heads will be directly reporting in to Kiran. Additionally, the diversified units --- Starcom IP, Starcom Entertainment, Relay and Star Sight --- will continue to report directly to Kiran.

"While Starcom currently has operations only in India, there is a lot of interest from potential partners in the region and putting Ravi in charge ensures we have someone to drive our growth across these markets. We expect to have operations in Sri Lanka and Pakistan by early 2006 and Ravi will need to provide a centre for training, systems, tools and other resources out of India. Also, there are opportunities which require a unified perspective across all of our resources in India which Ravi will now be in a position to pursue," said Starcom Mediavest Group Asia CEO D Sriram.

"I’m particularly pleased that the three individuals we are promoting today have all been with us now for over two years – Ravi in particular for seven. Continuity in senior management allows us the opportunity to grow and develop our structure around the same people who’ve proven their ability to drive success," added Sriram.