GroupM elevates 2 senior leaders in CTG team

Sidharth Parashar has been made Head, Pricing & Investments, and Jai Lala as Head, Trading & Partnerships

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Mumbai | April 16, 2014

GroupM yesterday announced the promotion of two of senior executives of the Central Trading Group (CTG). Sidharth Parashar has been made Head, Pricing & Investments, and Jai Lala as Head, Trading & Partnerships. They will both report in to Prasanth Kumar, Managing Partner, CTG, South Asia.

Prior to his promotion, Parashar was the Agency Buying Head for Maxus for over five years. He was a member of the leadership team, working on media mandates for brands such as Google, Nokia, Vodafone to name a few. In his new role, he will be responsible for facilitating and executing GroupM investment mandates across media. His key focus will be on the GroupM trading products that should continue to offer the edge to its clients. All GroupM Agency Trading Heads and cluster heads will now report to Parashar.

Lala was previously the Agency Trading Head for Mindshare, where he worked on media mandates for clients such as Pepsi, GlaxoSmithkline, ICICI, Aditya Birla Group and Nike. Going forward he will be managing all trading mandates at GroupM. He will also be heading a team of all the heads across verticals – Proprietary media, DTH, Xaxis, Syndication, GME and Special projects – and maximise value for clients. He will also work closely with Parashar and the agency trading heads on delivering the maximum ROI on media investments.

Speaking on the new structure, Prasanth Kumar said, “As we move into a growth phase largely driven by converging synergies across the group and driving client satisfaction, it has become critical that we create more focus, especially in the area of media investment. With the development of new concepts of integrated media, merging traditional and digital media, we are also looking at reforming the way we plan our investments as a central hub. This new structure in our core function will deliver unparalleled client delight and value.”

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