Rajiv Khurana joins Motivator as National Head, Business Development
Khurana has also been appointed as General Manager for Motivator, North
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | November 5, 2015
Motivator, a media agency from GroupM, has appointed Rajiv Khurana as National Head of Business Development and Partnerships. He has also been given the role of General Manager for the Northern region. He will report to Rabe Iyer, MD, and V Narayanan, Chief Growth Officer, for the roles of National Head and General Manager, respectively.
With over 19 years of experience across business, advertising and media, Khurana will actively work to build business development programmes and identify strategic business verticals and categories that Motivator local offices can take forward.
In his previous role as Client Leader at Maxus, he was successful in leading a portfolio of brands such as Paytm, Unicharm, Max Bupa, TV Today group, Air France and Nikon. He has won many businesses and conceived the iconic industry first 'BCCI-Paytm' four-year association during his successful stint at Maxus.
Iyer said, "Motivator leanings are towards delivering the business performance for our clients. Rajiv fits that line of thinking very well both, with his varied experience and his ability to lead change. We are looking forward to his addition on the team."
Narayanan added, “It's great to have someone of Rajiv's calibre on board. We value his sense of initiative, business thinking and his rich skills set, which will help transforming our product offering to our clients.”
Speaking on his new role, Khurana said, “Motivator is one of the fastest growing agencies within GroupM and I am excited to be joining this team and collaborating with some of media industry's finest minds to achieve greater heights for Motivator. The company's values of being agile, curious, enterprising and resilient completely resonate with me.”
Prior to joining Maxus, Khurana has worked as Vice-president, MEA at Dentsu. He has also been a part of Grey Worldwide (MC) as Regional Planning Director, MENA, and Mindshare as Business Director. Some of the other major accounts he has handled in the course of his career include Airtel, Nokia, Honda, Pepsi Foods and Maruti Suzuki.