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  • Anupama Ramaswamy, Ashish Chakravarty, and Rajdeepak Das Named Abby Awards 2024 jury chairs

    Anupama Ramaswamy, Ashish Chakravarty, and Rajdeepak Das Named Abby Awards 2024 jury chairs

    Mumbai: Anupama Ramaswamy, chief creative officer, Havas Worldwide India, Ashish Chakravarty, executive director, and India head of creative, for McCann Worldgroup and Rajdeepak Das, chief creative officer Publicis Groupe, South Asia and chairman, Leo Burnett, South Asia, join as jury chair for Still Digital category, Audio category, and Film (below 1 minute) category respectively, at The Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show.

    Havas Worldwide India chief creative officer Anupama Ramaswamy has been appointed jury chair of Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Still Digital category.

    Anupama is touted as one of the most celebrated creative minds in the country. She has made an indelible mark through her clutter-breaking work, passion for art direction and pure play advertising.

    Through her career, she has worked with some of the leading agencies in India and several marquee global and indigenous brands across sectors including Maruti Suzuki, Reckitt, Ikea, Vivo, Paytm, Subway, Tata Tea Digital, Samsung Mobiles, Airtel, Dabur, Lacoste, and many more.

    Her recent campaigns, including the Paytm Divide and Chotu, made her win the One Show, a couple of Spikes, and New York Festivals, and she was featured as one of the Impact Creative Stars ’21. During her stint at JWT Delhi as senior creative director, Anupama led the Delhi office to its first Cannes Lions and Clio Gold.

    She has also been a recipient of some of the most coveted awards including Cannes Lions, Clio, Adfest, New York Festivals, Abby, Effies, Spikes, Global Healthcare Awards, IAA Awards and The One Show and her work for Fuji Film has been featured in the prestigious Gunn Report as one of the top 20 most awarded print campaigns in the world.

    Anupama has been on the jury of several prestigious awards like The One Show and Spikes Asia and the grand jury at AME awards, and New York Festivals.

    Ashish Chakravarty executive director, and India head of creative, for McCann Worldgroup

    has been appointed jury chair of Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Audio category.

    Ashish has worked in most of the major agency networks and on some of the biggest global, and Indian brands.

    He is the recipient of more than 400 national and international awards on top advertising shows like One Show, Cannes, D&AD, Clio, Ad-fest, Spikes, Kyoorius, and Goafest, among others.

    Ashish has served as jury or jury chair, at many top international advertising awards, as well as all the top Indian award shows.

    Ashish has been recognized as one of the top 10 Creative Directors in India by Economic Times, the leading business newspaper, and was also ranked among the top ECDs in the world in industry rankings

    Rajdeepak Das chief creative officer of Publicis Groupe, South Asia and Chairman of Leo Burnett, South Asia has been appointed Jury Chair of the Abby Awards 2024 powered by the One Show in Film (below 1 minute)category.

    Raj firmly believes that the true potential of creativity and technology is finding human-centric solutions for the biggest brands because what’s good for people is good for brands. And his body of work reflects his vision for creativity.

    Raj was the force behind the iconic work for P&G Whisper ‘Touch the Pickle’ – one of the first social movements to break the taboo around periods in the Indian sub-continent. To his recent work for Whisper – the Missing Chapter which won him a Grand Prix in Sustainable Development Goals at Cannes Lions 2022 – an award which is very close to his heart as it made a real difference in the lives of young girls by breaking period taboos and getting the chapter on periods added in school books, helping 23 million girls stay in school.

    He and his team gave every Indian a piece of national treasure, by building Bajaj motorbikes out of the legendary warship INS Vikrant. In collaboration with India’s biggest petroleum brand and the government of India, they innovated the world’s first anti-collision road management system to reduce road accidents on Himalayan Roads.

    For one of India’s biggest financial brands, he created India’s 1st social media-based microfinancing system.

    Raj was featured in the Netflix Docuseries – Creative Indians Season 4 – a series which showcased the most talented Indians from Oscar winners to Bollywood Stars and artists to Grammy Awards-winning musicians. He has led and been a part of several jury cohorts at some of the biggest platforms including Cannes Lions, Spikes Asia, Dubai Lynx, and One Show to name a few.

    His HumanKind approach to creativity led Leo Burnett India to win multiple Grand Prix and metals at prestigious platforms like Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD and Spikes Asia. But he believes his biggest creation to date is Apollo 11 a specialised division of Leo Burnett India, consisting of what he calls ‘the mutant creatives’. Team of young people in their 20s with backgrounds in aerospace engineering, product design, data analysis and environment scientists solving human and brand problems with him.

    “I have always believed that an award is as good as its jury. This year too, the Abby Awards powered by One Show have a stellar lineup of both domestic and international luminaries as Jury Chairs, across 23 categories. Over the last two years the number of women jurors has been significant, and this year, with over one-third being women masters of their craft. To win recognition from such respected Jury Chairs is a matter of immense pride for the AdClub, the participating agencies and brands.” said Ajay Kakar, chairperson of Awards Governing Council, Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show and managing committee member, The Advertising Club.

  • L&K Saatchi & Saatchi appoints Balakrishna Gajelli as executive creative director

    L&K Saatchi & Saatchi appoints Balakrishna Gajelli as executive creative director

    Mumbai: L&K Saatchi & Saatchi, part of Publicis Groupe India, has appointed Balakrishna Gajelli as its  executive creative director. He will be based in the agency’s Mumbai office and report to L&K Saatchi & Saatchi’s CCO Kartik Smetacek.  

    With over 17 years of experience encompassing art, design, branding & creative direction in  advertising, Gajelli has crafted creative communications for renowned brands such as P&G,  VISA, Bumble, Johnson’s Baby, Pillsbury, Amul, Tata Salt, Tata Indicom, Idea Mobile, ITC  Foods, Crompton, and many others.

    His outstanding contributions and wide-ranging expertise in the advertising and marketing  field earned him a place among top 5 creative directors globally in The Big Won report for  2016. Additionally, he has been recognized as the #1 Hottest Creative in India by the  Campaign Brief Asia Creative Ranking. Previously, Bala has worked with FCB Ulka, BBDO India  and Leo Burnett India.

    Commenting on his appointment, Smetaceki said, “This will be the second time I’m working with Bala. He’s a solid thinker, a  talented designer and a trustworthy individual. In recent years, he’s also gained a lot of  experience with non-traditional work, working on some on India’s most awarded campaigns.  It’s fantastic to have him be part of our team.”

    Gajelli added, “I have great respect for L&K Saatchi & Saatchi’s creative, authentic, and brand centric approach so I am thrilled to be part of this organisation. It’s great to work with Kartik  again, and the agency’s vibrant culture and uplifting environment are plus points. I’m  enthusiastic about becoming a valued member of this team and family, contributing to an  exhilarating new phase for L&K Saatchi & Saatchi, and nurturing my professional  development. I eagerly anticipate leveraging the insights gained from my previous stints and  experiences to craft meaningful and innovative advertising and marketing solutions for our  clients.”

    Bala’s work has won the highest honours at Cannes Lions, Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show,  LIA, WARC, New York Festival, AdFest, SpikesAsia, APAC Effies & Abbys. 

  • FCB India wins India’s First Fusion Pencil at One Show 2022

    FCB India wins India’s First Fusion Pencil at One Show 2022

    Mumbai: FCB India wins India’s first Fusion Pencil at the coveted One Show 2022! The agency won this honour for their campaign The Nominate Me Selfie for Political Shakti & The Times of India.      

    FCB also bagged a Silver Pencil for UNAIDS The Mirror – See Me As I Am campaign.

    The One Show Fusion Pencil identifies and celebrates the best work in the world that addresses issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

    The Nominate Me Selfie campaign for Political Shakti and The Times of India is a powerful reminder of the concept of gender representation at the top. 50 per cent of our population are women, but only a fraction of parliamentarians are represented by this gender, leaving half of the electorate without or with very little voice.     

    The campaign is an urgent cry to bridge the political gender gap and bring about adequate representation in policymaking and the power circles.     

    Commenting on this win, FCB India creative chairperson Swati Bhattacharya said, “This is truly a dream come true for FCB as a network! Inclusivity, diversity, and equity are common themes that many of our brands share all over the world. And this beautiful trophy celebrates that voice.”

    Delighted with this momentous win FCB Group India chairman and CEO Rohit Ohri said, “When the work we put out in this world creates awareness of and helps find solutions for real issues that we as a people are grappling with, the sense of accomplishment is enormous. It’s truly an honour to win India’s first Fusion Pencil for our Nominate Me Selfie campaign.”

    Speaking on this win, Political Shakti co-founder Tara Krishnaswamy said, “The Fusion Pencil award is a testament to the creativity of Political Shakti’s volunteers who designed and executed our Half Is Ours/Aadha Humara, Selfless Selfie campaign for the Bihar elections. This was the time when the country was reeling under Covid and we could not gather in large numbers for a ground campaign to demand 50% female candidates. So we brought out the novel idea of using the narcissistic selfie to ask for women’s representation!”

  • 15th edition of Goafest set to be held in May 2022

    15th edition of Goafest set to be held in May 2022

    Mumbai:The Goafest Organising Committee has announced a change in dates for Goafest 2022. The fest which was scheduled from 7 April to 9 April will now be held from 5 May to 7 May.

    “The change will also facilitate extra time for the prestigious ‘One Show’ which has collaborated with the Abbys,” said the committee in a statement, hoping that agencies and organisations will be more enthusiastic to participate in the iconic festival as it returns after a gap of two years.

    Goafest chairman Jaideep Gandhi said “Ad Club joining hands with ‘One Show’ will truly take the Abbys – India’s premier and longstanding tradition of creative excellence, to the world. However, keeping in mind the ongoing pandemic situation, we believe the celebration of this unique, game-changing partnership would be better experienced with the 15th edition of Goafest scheduled in May 2022. After all, a celebration of creativity and innovation gets even better when the world around us is safer.”

    Advertising Agencies Association of India president Anupriya Acharya said, ‘The One Show’ is one of the most reputed advertising shows globally and further adds to the significance and the excitement around the festival that is returning after two long, eventful years. “And similarly, the 2022 edition of Goafest provides a perfect platform for the redefined Abbys. There is much for everyone to come together and share at the festival,” added Acharya.

    The three-day annual festival for the advertising, marketing, and media industry attracts over 2000 attendees from across India.

  • AAAI prowess Digital Hackfest Workshop

    AAAI prowess Digital Hackfest Workshop

    MUMBAI: Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) under the aegis of the AAAI Prowess initiative today announced a One-day workshop ‘‘Digital Hackfest – How to Power-up Brands in the Digital Space’’ scheduled for 26th May 2016 in Mumbai at the AAAI’s Training Centre at Lower Parel.  This workshop will be led by Meera Sharath Chandra.

    Today it is not about brands wanting to go digital but brands deepening their connect and co-creating experiences with their consumers across interesting and emerging digital apertures. Digital is more than a medium. It is a way of life. A whole new sphere where brands can sharply define their mission, personality, positioning and conversations with consumers. How can the digital strategy seamlessly dovetail with the brand intent? How can it be the heart of a totally integrated experience? How can we better understand the art and the science of digital engagement?

    The workshop will be in four parts. First, a look at how our digital and physical worlds collide. Second, examining how brands can leverage the online space in impactful and meaningful ways. Third, an understanding of the role and power of social media. Fourth, joining the dots to create a holistic brand story. Every session will conclude with a fun hack on the theme.

    Meera Sharath Chandra is Founder, CEO & CCO of Tigress Tigress – an agency that specialises in integrated communication with digital at the heart of the experience.

    An integrated creative professional with 35 years of global experience, handling both MD and ECD responsibilities, Meera has over two decades of specialisation in the digital and integrated space. She has been an award winner and jury member at Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD, Clio, Art Directors Club and New York Fest among others.
    Meera has worked in the US, the UK, Hong Kong and India. As an entrepreneur, Meera has earlier run an Intel-funded dotcom enterprise servicing clients in the US, Europe and Hong Kong, leading a 250-strong team. She has been a member of global task forces on brands such as Nestle, Unilever, Ford and Citibank. She has specialised in UI/UX from the University of Maryland’s Human Computer Interface Lab.

    Meera is invited to speak regularly at various international forums such as the Latin American Advertising Festival- Rio, Eurobest – Amsterdam and WHO – Geneva. She is also a pro bono contributor towards the WWF “Save The Tiger” initiative. She is a mentor at the School of Communication Arts, London.

  • AAAI prowess Digital Hackfest Workshop

    AAAI prowess Digital Hackfest Workshop

    MUMBAI: Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) under the aegis of the AAAI Prowess initiative today announced a One-day workshop ‘‘Digital Hackfest – How to Power-up Brands in the Digital Space’’ scheduled for 26th May 2016 in Mumbai at the AAAI’s Training Centre at Lower Parel.  This workshop will be led by Meera Sharath Chandra.

    Today it is not about brands wanting to go digital but brands deepening their connect and co-creating experiences with their consumers across interesting and emerging digital apertures. Digital is more than a medium. It is a way of life. A whole new sphere where brands can sharply define their mission, personality, positioning and conversations with consumers. How can the digital strategy seamlessly dovetail with the brand intent? How can it be the heart of a totally integrated experience? How can we better understand the art and the science of digital engagement?

    The workshop will be in four parts. First, a look at how our digital and physical worlds collide. Second, examining how brands can leverage the online space in impactful and meaningful ways. Third, an understanding of the role and power of social media. Fourth, joining the dots to create a holistic brand story. Every session will conclude with a fun hack on the theme.

    Meera Sharath Chandra is Founder, CEO & CCO of Tigress Tigress – an agency that specialises in integrated communication with digital at the heart of the experience.

    An integrated creative professional with 35 years of global experience, handling both MD and ECD responsibilities, Meera has over two decades of specialisation in the digital and integrated space. She has been an award winner and jury member at Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD, Clio, Art Directors Club and New York Fest among others.
    Meera has worked in the US, the UK, Hong Kong and India. As an entrepreneur, Meera has earlier run an Intel-funded dotcom enterprise servicing clients in the US, Europe and Hong Kong, leading a 250-strong team. She has been a member of global task forces on brands such as Nestle, Unilever, Ford and Citibank. She has specialised in UI/UX from the University of Maryland’s Human Computer Interface Lab.

    Meera is invited to speak regularly at various international forums such as the Latin American Advertising Festival- Rio, Eurobest – Amsterdam and WHO – Geneva. She is also a pro bono contributor towards the WWF “Save The Tiger” initiative. She is a mentor at the School of Communication Arts, London.

  • Goafest Creative Abby jury chairs announced for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations

    Goafest Creative Abby jury chairs announced for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations

    MUMBAI  The Awards Governing Council of Goafest 2016 has declared the jury chairs for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations. DDB Mudra chairman and CCO Sonal Dabral will chair the OOH/Ambient Jury of Creative Abby,  J. Walter Thompson  CCO Senthil Kumar will chair the integrated category.  Reliance Broadcast Network  CEO Tarunl Katial will be jury chair for the  branded content category while Madison PR  CEO Paresh Chaudhury will chair the Public Relations category.

    Dabral  has over two decades of experience in advertising industry and has curated many winning campaigns for major local, regional and multinational brands.  He began his career in Lintas and after a brief stint in Mudra Delhi, went on to have an extremely successful stint at Ogilvy Mumbai. He then went on to head Ogilvy in Malaysia and make it one of the top creative offices in the region.   Thereafter, as the chairman and ECD of Ogilvy Singapore, he helped the agency become the hottest agency in the region and the no.1 creative office of the WPP global network. In 2007 he led the agency for it to become the third highest awarded agency in the world at Cannes Lions. He is a prolific winner in most of the regional and international award shows like Cannes, Clio, D & AD, One Show, LIA, Andy Awards, AdFest, Spikes etc,

    Kumar has been celebrated in India and recognized globally for the ability to amplify deep local insights into simple ideas that solve complicated marketing challenges. He has won India’s first and second Film Gold Lions at The Cannes Lions International Festival in 2009.  His ideas have helped build several brands in India including: Levi’s, Nike, Google, Ford, etc. Kumar can be spotted in several creative books under the classifications of writer, creative director, designer, photographer and film maker. His work has risen beyond successful marketing case studies to mine over 100 international creative awards.

    Katial is at the helm of one of India’s youngest media houses and is considered to be one of the most successful executives in the Indian media industry. A stint in adverting followed by over a decade of experience in broadcast with brands like Star and Sony and now Reliance Broadcast, Katial has successfully led high decibel launches of industry tent poles and has always been able to rightly tap the consumer’s pulse. Other significant achievements in Katial’s cap include being voted the NewsCorp Achiever for Asia and being included among the best in the ‘India Today 30 on 30’ list. He was also part of the team that won the first Media Gold at Cannes.

    Chaudhry has over 24 years of brand communication and reputation management experience across industries and key global markets and is also founder president of the “Indian Forum Of  Corporate Communicators” (IFCC).   Chaudhry’s last assignment was as group president -corporate communications, Reliance Industries, prior to which he was head of communications at HUL and communications leader, Unilever South Asia.  From building the corporate brand of Ranbaxy in North America, Europe and India, to aligning regional communication country teams to bring alive ‘the transition to one Unilever brand’ and driving the corporate name change from “HLL” to “HUL”, to putting together systems and processes for effective global (internal and external) communications at RIL, Chaudhry has led communications for many iconic and tentpole campaigns in India.

     

  • Goafest Creative Abby jury chairs announced for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations

    Goafest Creative Abby jury chairs announced for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations

    MUMBAI  The Awards Governing Council of Goafest 2016 has declared the jury chairs for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations. DDB Mudra chairman and CCO Sonal Dabral will chair the OOH/Ambient Jury of Creative Abby,  J. Walter Thompson  CCO Senthil Kumar will chair the integrated category.  Reliance Broadcast Network  CEO Tarunl Katial will be jury chair for the  branded content category while Madison PR  CEO Paresh Chaudhury will chair the Public Relations category.

    Dabral  has over two decades of experience in advertising industry and has curated many winning campaigns for major local, regional and multinational brands.  He began his career in Lintas and after a brief stint in Mudra Delhi, went on to have an extremely successful stint at Ogilvy Mumbai. He then went on to head Ogilvy in Malaysia and make it one of the top creative offices in the region.   Thereafter, as the chairman and ECD of Ogilvy Singapore, he helped the agency become the hottest agency in the region and the no.1 creative office of the WPP global network. In 2007 he led the agency for it to become the third highest awarded agency in the world at Cannes Lions. He is a prolific winner in most of the regional and international award shows like Cannes, Clio, D & AD, One Show, LIA, Andy Awards, AdFest, Spikes etc,

    Kumar has been celebrated in India and recognized globally for the ability to amplify deep local insights into simple ideas that solve complicated marketing challenges. He has won India’s first and second Film Gold Lions at The Cannes Lions International Festival in 2009.  His ideas have helped build several brands in India including: Levi’s, Nike, Google, Ford, etc. Kumar can be spotted in several creative books under the classifications of writer, creative director, designer, photographer and film maker. His work has risen beyond successful marketing case studies to mine over 100 international creative awards.

    Katial is at the helm of one of India’s youngest media houses and is considered to be one of the most successful executives in the Indian media industry. A stint in adverting followed by over a decade of experience in broadcast with brands like Star and Sony and now Reliance Broadcast, Katial has successfully led high decibel launches of industry tent poles and has always been able to rightly tap the consumer’s pulse. Other significant achievements in Katial’s cap include being voted the NewsCorp Achiever for Asia and being included among the best in the ‘India Today 30 on 30’ list. He was also part of the team that won the first Media Gold at Cannes.

    Chaudhry has over 24 years of brand communication and reputation management experience across industries and key global markets and is also founder president of the “Indian Forum Of  Corporate Communicators” (IFCC).   Chaudhry’s last assignment was as group president -corporate communications, Reliance Industries, prior to which he was head of communications at HUL and communications leader, Unilever South Asia.  From building the corporate brand of Ranbaxy in North America, Europe and India, to aligning regional communication country teams to bring alive ‘the transition to one Unilever brand’ and driving the corporate name change from “HLL” to “HUL”, to putting together systems and processes for effective global (internal and external) communications at RIL, Chaudhry has led communications for many iconic and tentpole campaigns in India.

     

  • Seven years of Out of the Box ideas!

    Seven years of Out of the Box ideas!

    MUMBAI: It was in 2006 when advertising professional Viral Pandya found his calling. With over 15 years of experience at that time, Viral wanted to break-free from the recycled ideas and clichéd advertising, and the outcome was Out of the Box.

     

    As the name suggests, the Delhi-based advertising company believes in taking the unbeaten path. As the agency turned seven on 10 January, the co-founder and chief creative officer believes that it has been a great ride ever since and he’s still enjoying the heady feeling. “While I was heading creative at Saatchi, I got this chance to set up an agency from scratch, and I grabbed it,” he recalls while on a celebration trip with his entire team to Shimla.

     

    On the years just a little short of the big 10, the team feels that the appreciation that it has received from clients, the industry, peer groups and award juries is the high point. “Year after year, we have won just about every award worth winning,” points out Pandya while stating more instances of their work been acknowledged and respected. For instance, a poster developed by the agency was displayed by Museum of Design in Zurich.

     

    The agency’s copywriter, Vaibhav Pandey, won the All-Star competition at the Portfolio Night organised by Art Director’s Club, New York. He was chosen as the Best Young Creative from New Delhi, and was invited to New York to work for the global campaign for Ford Motors. Apart from that, last year, Pandya was invited to be a jury member for the New York based One Show Awards (Design) that celebrates the best of the advertising world.

     

    The agency caught everyone’s attention a couple of years back when it won its first ever Cannes Gold Lion in Design for its work – Love blossoms here.

     

    The agency attributes all these accolades on a conscious effort to do away with the stuffiness of big agencies, and have more creative freedom and tighter creative control. “In this day and age, agencies will go to any extend to get more business, we are an exception. Our focus has always been quality, not quantity,” emphasised Pandya.

     

    Unlike others, Pandya doesn’t shy away from saying that awards are an important source of encouragement for him and his teammates. He believes that validation about anything is good, and who wouldn’t welcome it!

     

    He goes on to say, “I believe everything that goes out of the agency should carry our mark of excellence. We will go to any extend to live up to this belief.”

     

    But every agency would like to believe the same about them and thus when quizzed Pandya about what makes Out of the Box stand out, he candidly puts it that there are two answers to this. Quoting Abraham Maslow, he says, “If hammer is the only tool you have, you see every problem as a nail.” He further adds, “Thing is, if you are an ATL agency, you come up with just ATL solutions. If you are digital agency, your solutions are digital. Luckily, we approach every problem with a clean slate. We have competencies in every discipline – whether it’s design, advertising or digital. If it’s PR that the client needs, we have no hesitation in recommending that. Point is there’s no standard way to develop a brief; we define the marketing problem, keep an open mind, and arrive at a solution.”

     

    And the shortest way to put it according to him is: See our work. And you will realise how different we really are!

     

    Sounds like a lot like boasting, but the agency doesn’t feel that way. “Apart from the work, our people and the clients which have always supported, appreciated and encouraged us add up to make it worth it,” he says.

     

    The agency boasts of clients like Mother’s Pride, Haldiram’s Presidium, Adiva Healthcare and Art of Curry that have been with the agency since its inception. In fact, it was Mother’s Pride that had got them the Cannes Lion. The team had worked on it with collaboration with Bombay Duck Design and came up with numerous layouts and taglines before producing the award-winning designs.

     

    Small independent agencies have and are still mushrooming in the country, but not many last for long or are bought over/merge with bigger agencies. Dentsu India group (which acquired 51 percent stake in Taproot India) executive chairman Rohit Ohri believes that it doesn’t matter if you are a small or big agency, or if you work independently or are a branch of a giant group, it is the work that matters. “Size doesn’t matter. It is a level-playing field and the key differentiator is the work,” says Ohri who thinks even small and independent agencies can survive in the competitive world.

     

    However, Pandya says that a merger doesn’t make sense unless there’s a meeting of minds. “We set up Out of the Box to get away from the stuffiness of a big agency. So naturally, we will be careful before we jump into a merger. However, if our values and beliefs match, we’d be open to it,” he remarks.

     

    When quizzed if he regrets any decision taken about the agency so far, he says, “I only wish that we had started this venture a little earlier.”

     

    As he signs off, in an optimistic way he says that there will be big surprises from the agency, “You just wait and watch.”