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  • News Corporation promotes Gannon, Wardynski & Boudiette as senior vice presidents

    News Corporation has announced the promotion of three senior executives within its corporate finance group.
    Robert Gannon has been promoted to senior vice president and corporate controller of News Corporation. He will continue to be responsible for all internal and external reporting as well as oversight of global sourcing arrangements.
    Paula Wardynski has been promoted to senior vice president, finance of News Corporation.
    Ray Boudiette has been promoted to senior vice president, corporate audit.
    Each of the executives will continue to report to News Corporation deputy chief financial officer John Nallen.
    Prior to this appointment, Gannon was a vice president and held various senior accounting roles within News Corporation, including corporate reporting and director of internal audit at the start of his career with News Corporation in 1985.
    Wardynski, who joined News Corporation in 1985, will continue to be responsible for News Corporation’s worldwide treasury operations and related technology initiatives and will retain her role as treasurer of News America Incorporated.
    Boudiette, formerly a vice president, joined News Corporation in 2000. He will continue to be responsible for the worldwide Corporate Audit Group and related compliance and corporate governance projects.
    The appointments, which are effective immediately, recognise the responsibilities these professionals have within News Corporation.

  • Mudra appoints Malekar, Medhekar as vice presidents

    MUMBAI: Mudra Communications has appointed Sharmila Malekar and Ashish Medhekar in the capacity of vice presidents of the agency.

    Malekar will be responsible for the entire Godrej portfolio, which includes the hair-colors and hair-dyes business, three soap brand, Ezee liquid detergent and Godrej Real Good Chicken. The other large accounts in her portfolio would be Big Bazaar, LIC and LICHFL along with some new businesses, while Medhekar will head the Reliance Finance portfolio, which is one of the fastest growing in the region.
     
     
    “Sharmila and Ashish will considerably strengthen the Mudra Mumbai team. I am looking forward to using their varied experience to manage the growth in the Godrej and Reliance businesses,” says Mudra Mumbai operations president Jude Fernandes.
     
     

    Malekar – a 1993 alumnus of Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai, has extensive experience in the advertising industry having worked in Lowe and Ogilvy for 11 years. Beginning her career with Lowe at 1993, she has worked on brands like Johnson & Johnson, Parachute, Liril, after which she moved to O&M in in 1998. At O&M, she led the launch of HLL’s direct-to-home business HLN – Hindustan Lever Network apart from working on a diverse set of business which saw her in the position of business head for Tata Motors – Sumo, Safari, DHL, Hindustan Pencils, Hindustan Lever – Dove, Sunlight and Playwin Lotteries.
     
     
    On the other hand, Medhekar has 12 years of experience behind him in advertising and communications. Starting his career with Contract Advertising, he has worked with agencies like Enterprise Nexus, Rediffusion DY& R and Euro RSCG.

    While at Rediffusion he worked on Colgate brand at a time when Colgate Dental Cream was under pressure from Pepsodent. At Rediffusion, he headed the Chennai office and thereafter Wunderman Mumbai. Apart from Colgate some of the other brands that Medhekar has worked on are Citibank, Thomson, Phillips, Nivia, Sony Entertainment Television, HDFC Bank Credit Cards.