New leader for Mindshare Sri Lanka

Mindshare recently promoted Sabry Haniz to replace Nelson Monteiro as the Leader for its Sri Lanka office, who left the company in early July.

Prior to Sabry's promotion, he was a Partner in the Client Leadership division. His clients included Tigo, HSBC, Pepsi, ICI/AkzoNobel, Nokia, Singapore Airlines, Ceat, Holcim, Ferrero Rocher, Fuji, Union Assurance and Sony Ericsson. Besides handling client relationships, he was also responsible for new business development, media owner relationships and channel negotiations.

Sabry is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) and has been in the media industry for the past 13 years , including JWT and subsequently Mindshare. He has contributed immensely to the growth and reputation of Mindshare Sri Lanka and has been instrumental in some of the award winning work which was recognized internationally and locally. Two such examples are the HSBC Lifestyle Show and the Reborn 'Get Stolen' campaigns.

"My appointment is to help the team achieve the goal of maintaining the lead position of Mindshare in Sri Lanka and to broaden the high value added services to our clients to become their true strategic partner", said Sabry.