Sometime early last week, I announced my decision to quit iContract, one of India's leading one-to-one agencies.
It was a job that I had really loved to do for the entire part of the last 14 years of my working life - building and growing iContract. iContract is a one-to-one division of Contract Advertising ( a subsidiary of JWT in India and also a part of WPP Group).
Over the years at iContract,there are a lot of people who made this happen. I must admit this is not an individual effort but it was a team effort. It was just people who made a big difference to iContract without whom this would not have been possible. The most important of them include Bimal Nair(Currently Executive Vice President, Rediffusion DY&R), Samir Shanbhag(Currently Group Account Director, BrandCom Middle East), Leroy Alvares(Currently Country Head, Tribal DDB), Harsh Grandhe( Currently Vice President, Rediffusion DY&R), Allwin, Vineet Kumar, Parag Sen and Nishad Ramachandran. They have been great colleagues, friends, evangelists and advisors for me at various points of time during my years there. Each of them gave more than 100% commitment when needed, carried the organization and its agenda as if it were their own and it was great fun working with them.
I am now in the midst of setting-up my own venture. Will let you know how things progress at my end.