Tag: Rishi Srivastava

  • Tata AIA Life Insurance launches media campaign ‘Rakshakaran Heroes’

    Tata AIA Life Insurance launches media campaign ‘Rakshakaran Heroes’

    MUMBAI: Tata AIA Life Insurance has launched the media campaign Rakshakaran Hero that addresses the major concern of green cover depletion and lack of Life Insurance penetration in the country. The campaign breaks with a new brand film that inspires the consumers to protect the future of their families as well as that of the planet.

    The campaign highlights the pledge that the company has made towards planting a tree for every Tata AIA term policy bought.

    An extension of the brand promise of Tata AIA, Rakshakaran Ki Reet, the TVC highlights the larger purpose that buying a term policy serves. The Rakshakaran Hero campaign establishes the idea that by protecting the family’s financial future, the consumer is also participating in the larger good of protecting the planet, by making it greener, thus making him a Rakshakaran Hero.

    The commercial, conceived by FCB Ulka, opens inside a modern Indian house where the father has just bought a life insurance plan from Tata AIA Life as the wife looks on. Their children start hugging the father with joy and love, for ensuring a financially secure future for the family. Suddenly, something delightfully unexpected happens. Kids from diverse backgrounds, from across the country, emerge from all around and start entering the house and begin giving the father a hug. It is a ‘thank you’ hug, for protecting their collective future by protecting the planet. The film ends with the message – Tata AIA Life Insurance ke term Plan se aap sirf apni family ki hi nahi, planet ki bhi raksha karne ki reet nibhaate hai (With Tata AIA Life Term plan, you not only practice the ritual of securing your family’s future, but also embrace the ritual of protecting the planet). The new campaign on Rakshakarn Hero by Tata AIA Life Insurance expresses the pride and joy of being responsible for the planet.

    Speaking on the Rakshakaran Hero campaign, Tata AIA Life Insurance MD & CEO Rishi Srivastava said, “Financially securing families while protecting the environment blends our purpose with a larger societal goal. We celebrate our policyholders for championing this cause and taking the firm step of protecting their families and everyone’s collective future by protecting the environment. The Rakshakaran Hero campaign film celebrates our policy holders as the real Rakshakaran Heroes who earn the love and adulation of many, especially children, whose future they protect.”

    “With mounting concerns over fast-degrading quality of air and waning green cover, we feel we must play a proactive role in countering the ill-effects. I am proud that our campaign has hit the right chord with the consumer as they promise a cleaner, brighter future to our coming generations,” he added.

    The campaign has been designed by a creative agency, FCB Ulka. The TVC will run for the period of one month during entire India – Australia Cricket Series. It will be seen via TV, Digital and Outdoor platforms.

    Speaking about the film and the campaign, FCB Ulka national creative director Keigan Pinto shared, “It is a moment of immense pride for us to have our partners, Tata AIA Life Insurance, do their bit to make the planet greener, healthier and more sustainable. But it is no surprise when it’s a Tata group company. Creatively, we wrote a story about our protagonist getting appreciated, thanked and hugged not just by his own kids, whose future he just protected by buying life insurance, but by a bunch of over 30 happy kids from diverse backgrounds, who eventually create the really big, warm hug. What an experience it was. Kids, who represent our future, showing affection for a Rakshakaran Hero who just protected their collective future. We are grateful, once again, to our partners Tata AIA Life Insurance for supporting what we believe is a good creative for a noble cause.”

    Rakshakaran Hero initiative was started in Sept 2019, whereina sapling is planted in the name of the policy-holder for every term policy that is bought. These saplings are planted in designated regions across India to enhance the much-required green cover in country. Under the unique Rakshakarn Hero initiative, the organization has already planted over 60,000 trees.

  • TATA AIA elevates Rishi Srivastava as CEO and MD

    MUMBAI: In a recent development, Tata AIA Life, a private life insurer has announced Rishi Srivastava as the new chief executive officer and managing director starting 1 August 2018 subject to regulatory approval from IRDAI. Srivastava will replace Naveen Tahilyani.

    Srivastava is currently chief of proprietary channels, product, marketing and corporate communication at Tata AIA. He has been active in setting up and driving Tata AIA’s agency workforce and successfully building the unique premier agency model in India which aims to providing enhanced overall customer experience.

    Srivastava brings with him more than 20 years of experience in finance and insurance. Prior to this, he was CEO at ICICI Prudential before moving to ICICI Bank as general manager and then on to AXA as director of the agency business in Jakarta.

    He joined Tata AIA in 2016. Srivastava started his career with Dabur India Limited as a area sales manager and product manager.

    He has led strong, profitable growth at Tata AIA over the past three and half years, with a focus on delivering a multi-distribution business, best-in-class customer experience and building a differentiated protection-oriented franchise.

  • Microsoft India launches Electronic Programming Guide

    Microsoft India launches Electronic Programming Guide

    BANGALORE/MUMBAI: Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd has launched an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) for users of Windows XP Media Centre PCs. Making its debut in India, EPG is an on screen interactive guide to television programs,

    This new concept will allow viewers to navigate, select, explore and record shows across more than 80 channels in the country, at their own convenience.

    The service can be integrated into the Windows XP Media Center PCs and will be available to users free of cost. It has the capacity to automatically download and update every time the user is connected to the internet.

    The Microsoft Windows XP Media Center PC functions as a PC, TV, Radio, DVD player & Media Player. EPG adds to this functionality, as it serves as an electronic search engine that informs the user of what is playing on which channel and when, for a period of 15 days. Moreover, this time limit can be upgraded on a day-to-day basis, states an official release.

    Windows Client Business Group director Rishi Srivastava said, “TV as an entertainment medium provides limitless choices to the consumer today. Presently, their TV consuming time is undirected and cluttered. We believe that the Electronic Programming Guide will help consumers take control of their entertainment experience by helping them watch their favourite program any time, any where.”

    EPG caters to the diverse needs of the viewer by allowing him to locate his favourite shows by simply punching in key words like the name of the program, movie, actors, time, day and date. Besides this, the guide also provides viewers with relevant information like a short description of the program including the start time, plot, duration, censorship classification and genre. In order to make the guide easier to scan, it is possible to hide channels that are not included in their TV service package or the ones that they do not watch regularly.

    Combined with the DVR (digital video recording) capabilities of Windows XP Media Center, viewers can search for and record not just a single episode but also an entire series. With the help of this easy to use device, users can even create their own collection of favourite movies, soaps and serials.

    Along with these facilities it also comes with conflict resolution feature. In case, two programs are to be recorded, which are scheduled simultaneously, the EPG will resolve the conflict by automatically searching for the repeat telecast of either of the two programs over the next few days thus, recording them separately with much ease.

    Srivastava adds, “We believe that Windows XP Media Center combined with the electronic programming guide will be a huge success in India. Consider this, for Rs 30,000 a consumer can now buy a PC that also provides an unmatched TV viewing experience.”

    For the benefit of the user, microsoft has also agreed to launch an awareness campaign comprising of advertisements and activities to promote this one of a kind concept, which they hope will spiral demand. The company will also partner with additional OEMs, content partners, and other companies in the digital entertainment industry to catalyse the growth of this segment.

    Currently Windows XP Media Center PCs from HP, HCL and Sahara are available at more than 300 reseller outlets across 30 cities in the country for a price range starting from Rs 30,000.