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Madhukar Kamat

'''There are people who fascinatingly say that,'As a person,I love taking new challenges & responsibilities and create something path-breaking'.

If you are looking at a flesh and blood embodiment of it in the Indian Advertising industry, then it is Madhukar Kamat.'''

Madhukar Kamath is currently the Group CEO & Managing Director of DDB Mudra Group. An Economics graduate from Loyola Chennai, Madhukar studied Management at XLRI Jamshedpur. He has more than three decades of experience in Advertising and Marketing Communications and has spent close to twenty years in Mudra, in two separate stints. Under his leadership over the last five years, Mudra transformed itself from an Advertising Agency into one of India’s leading Integrated Marketing Communications Groups. He was largely instrumental in Omnicom acquiring a majority stake and in steering the Group’s integration into DDB Worldwide as DDB Mudra Group.

Madhukar has actively participated in and led several industry bodies. He has served as the President of the AAAI (Advertising Agencies Association of India) and Chairman of ASCI (The Advertising Standards Council of India). Currently he is on the Board of ABC (The Audit Bureau of Circulations). In addition, he was the Chairman - Organizing Committee for AdAsia 2011. He is also the Chairman of the Mudra Foundation and serves on the Governing Council of MICA (Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad), India’s foremost Integrated Marketing Communications Institute.

Madhukar lives in Mumbai and is a fairly passionate F1 fan. His love of the outdoors has led him to travel extensively.

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