Tag: Namrata Tata

  • Happyness.me launches employee voice 24/7 platform

    Happyness.me launches employee voice 24/7 platform

    KOLKATA:  When employees may freely air their views, without fear of attracting the management’s ire, it would make for a happy organisation and inevitably progress for the company, especially in these COVID-19 pandemic times.

    Based on this premise of taking positive worker engagement to the next level, House of Cheer, a company promoted by media veteran and former COO of Viacom18 Raj Nayak, announced it will offer its service, tech-enabled Employee Voice 24/7 platform, to small, medium and large companies, free of cost for an extended period of six months.

    The initiative comes as a complementary service for corporate leaders and employees of firms, big and small across India, who continue in their resolute defiance of COVID-19 challenges, to not only stay afloat, but also prosper and grow during the ongoing pandemic.

    Launched under the happyness.me brand, Employee Voice 24/7 will now be offered to every company (small, medium & large) in India for an extended period of six months.

    Employee Voice 24/7 empowers C-Suite leaders to listen to their people to better understand, in real time, how they are feeling. Across all organizations, the service enables each employee to anonymously share her/his feelings at any given point of time, 24/7, even multiple times a day.

    The platform will organize all individual employee feedback into a unique dashboard with actionable insights that can inform and empower leadership to improve communication finally aimed at employee well-being.

    House Of Cheer managing partner Namrata Tata said: “The world is still in the throes of the worst global disaster in living human memory, and the pandemic has impacted lives in unimaginable ways.  As companies and their employees struggle to overcome the challenges, it is an undisputable fact that at all times; the state of mind of employees has an important bearing on both – their own happiness (quotient), and the performance and fortunes of the company.”

    “We have rolled out this free service to encourage organisations to connect with their people on a real-time basis,” said Tata, added, “We would therefore encourage leaders of every organization, regardless of size, to make Employee Voice 24/7 service a partner in their growth efforts. Communication is a two-way street, and you need to hear from your people, just as much as they need to hear from you.”

  • Viacom18 elevates Namrata Tata & Mandar Natekar

    MUMBAI: Viacom18’s national brands aimed at youth and the adult audience, viz. Hindi, youth, music and English entertainment under the leadership of Viacom18 COO Raj Nayak, has announced a rejig of its business and revenue leadership team.

    Namrata Tata, who was responsible for ad sales for English entertainment, will now take on the new and expanded role of head, ad sales – youth, music and English entertainment.

    Mandar Natekar, who was earlier heading Ad Sales – Youth and Music, will be moving into a business role and will be responsible for one of the newest ventures of the network, the MTV Music Project.

    Both Namrata Tata and Mandar Natekar will continue reporting into Ferzad Palia.

    Speaking on the management restructuring, Nayak said, “With the recent consolidation of Hindi, Youth, Music and English Entertainment clusters, Viacom18 is carving out anidentity for itself in the ecosystem that cohesively speaks to adults, youth and millennials, and create opportunities that are multi-dimensional and multi-platform. Namrata and Mandar have been instrumental to the success of the youth, music and English entertainment genres and as we look to dial up synergies and expand to capture white spaces within the genres, they are best suited to support Ferzad in further strengthening our influence in these genres.”

    Under Mandar’s leadership, the MTV Music Project will nurture an ecosystem of new and established artistes and create original music content. Namrata, who has been associated with Viacom18 for the past 6 years and has been instrumental in growing the revenues of the English Entertainment unit will now oversee sales revenue for the consolidated cluster of Youth, Music and English Entertainment.

    Speaking about the role expansions, Viacom 18 Youth, Music and English Entertainment head Ferzad Palia said, “In an increasingly dynamic environment, these genres need to look beyond traditional avenues to dial up growth. As a network, our leadership plays in the Youth, Music and English Entertainment genres have set the ground for us to explore synergies within them to dial up revenues. Namrata, with her understanding of the genres particularly and broadcast as a whole, is well equipped to lead the charge for maximizing the revenue opportunities for these related business units. Mandar, with his nuanced understanding of the youth and music genre – both from content and revenue POVs, is best suited to lead the MTV Music Project, as we look to explore our latest business opportunity in this genre. I am confident that we can further dial up our plays across these wide set of brands and solutions in this space.”

  • The Ad Club and AAAI reveal The Awards Governing Council for Goafest 2016

    The Ad Club and AAAI reveal The Awards Governing Council for Goafest 2016

    MUMBAI: The Advertising Club and Advertising Agencies Association of India has announced Canco Advertising founder Ramesh Narayan  as the  chairman of the Awards Governing Council for Goafest 2016.

     

    Announcing the appointment, The Advertising Club president Raj Nayak said, “We are pleased to announce that Ramesh Narayan will be the Chairman of the Awards Governing Council of the Goafest. He brings his unique experience as one of the very few people who has been President of the Advertising Club and the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) to this post. He has also been Chairman of the Abby Awards Committee twice, and was the first Indian to judge the Effie Awards finals in New York. Ramesh is the only person to have been conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by the AAAI and been inducted into the International Advertising Association’s Hall of Fame.” 

     

    Goafest Organizing Committee chairman Nakul Chopra commented on the appointment saying, “I’ve known Ramesh as a visionary leader who embraces change and is open to new ideas. I’m sure his appointment means an interesting phase for the Council is on the anvil.”

     

    Narayan too added, “I’m humbled by this appointment. It fills me with immense happiness to be part of such an esteemed panel. There’s a lot to learn and grow, and I’m sure I’ll be able to add value to the Council. I look forward to reaching out to all stakeholders and getting their suggestions on how to make this the gold standard for awards.”

     

    The other members elected to the Council are:

     

    Chairman (CEO, Publicis South Asia & Vice President) of Goafest Organizing Committee — Nakul Chopra

    President Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAA’s of I) & Advisor, FCB Ulka Advertising-  Ambi M G Parameshwaran

    Chairman and CEO at Dentsu Aegis Network –  Ashish Bhasin

    President, Sony Pictures Networks -Rohit Gupta

    CEO at Group M, South Asia – CVL Srinivas

    CEO at Mediabrands –  Shashi Sinha

    CEO at Percept H Pvt. Ltd. – Ajay Chandwani

    National Head, Sales, English Cluster at Viacom18 – Namrata Tata

    Chief Executive Officer at Contract Advertising – Rana Barua