New Board to steer 4 As
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New board: Seated Left to Right: Secretary: Paddy Weerasekere,
General Manager - 141 Worldwide; second Vice President: Dilith
Jayaweera, Joint Managing Director - Triad Advertising;
President: Laila Gunesekere Martenstyn - COO Grant McCann
Erikson; First Vice President: Keith Wijesuriya, CEO - BBDO Sri
Lanka; Treasurer: Niranjan Palipane, Director/CEO - Clinch.
(Standing left to right:) Director: Alann Lopez, CEO - 5th
Elephant; Special Advisor: Kenneth Honter, Chairman - Sarva
Integrated; Director: Alyna Haji Omar, General Manager, Response
- Marketing; Director: Sanith de S. Wijeyeratne - Chief Insight
and Incite Officer - Minds DRAFTFCB; Director: Chrishantha
Jayasinghe , Managing Director - Sarva Integrated.
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A bold new direction, leadership and vision were very evident at the
recently concluded Annual General Meeting of the Accredited Advertising
Agencies Association hosted at H2O.
The AGM saw the election of well known industry mover and shaker
Laila Gunasekera Martenstyn as the new President for the year 2008 , and
also saw a balanced Board of industry veterans mixed with relative
newcomers being elected to support her.
Outgoing President Rohan Rajaratnam, remarked that the association
responded to the occasions where it was called upon to fulfill both
roles of leaders and spokesman for the advertising industry. He stated
that the association was instrumental in attempting to resolve key
industry issues with both the Heads of Electronic Media Institutions and
even with the Central Bank.
He also stated that he had received great support from key members of
the association whom he thanked for their contributions specially
towards the education and training programmes that were conducted as
part of the year's calendar.
He also recognized the contributions made by key members of the
association in the formulation and conduct of key industry events such
as the Chillies 2007 and the upcoming SLIM Effies. |
