n December 12, just hours before this issue went to press, Lowe Worldwide announced that R Balakrishnan (Balki as he is popularly known) would be the new head of Lowe India from January 2008. In the 12 months from December 2006, three other agency head appointments were made - all of them from the creative side of the table.

Prasoon Joshi was made executive chairman of McCann Erickson India, Sonal Dabral chairman India for Bates Asia and Josy Paul chairman of BBDO India (it is entering India independently despite an existing JV, RK Swamy|BBDO). If one considers creative shops like Wieden + Kennedy, add one more to the list: V Sunil, who was been appointed a partner and Mohit Jayal as managing director. But for the purpose of this story, only full-service agencies were considered. ... more