Riyad Mathew, Chief Associate Editor and Director at Malayala Manorama Group, has been unanimously elected Chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for the 2024-2025 term.
Mathew has served as a Director on the Board of the Press Trust of India (PTI) since August 2009 and held the position of Chairman for the year 2016-2017. Additionally, he was a Director on the Board of the Media Research Users Council India (MRUCI) and a Board member of the Association of Indian Magazines (AIM).
Karunesh Bajaj, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Exports at ITC, representing advertisers on the ABC Council, has been unanimously appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Bureau for the 2024-2025 term.
Mohit Jain, Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at Bennett Coleman, and Vikram Sakhuja, Group CEO of Madison Media and OOH at Madison World, have been re-elected for the positions of Secretary and Treasurer of the Bureau, respectively, for the 2024-2025 term.
Publishers representatives include, Riyad Mathew – Malayala Manorama (Chairman), Mohit Jain – Bennett, Coleman (Secretary), Pratap G. Pawar – Sakal Papers, Shailesh Gupta – Jagran Prakashan, Praveen Someshwar – HT Media, Dhruba Mukherjee – ABP, Karan Darda – Lokmat Media, Girish Agarwal – DB Corp
Advertiser representatives include, Karunesh Bajaj, ITC – Deputy Chairman, Aniruddha Haldar, TVS Motor Company, Partho Banerjee, Maruti Suzuki India
Advertising agencies representatives include, Vikram Sakhuja– Madison Communications (Treasurer), Srinivasan K Swamy– RK Swamy, Prasanth Kumar– Group M Media India, Vaishali Verma– Initiative Media (India), Sejal Shah– Publicis Media India Group.
