Call it Luck, Initiative, Destiny…..but the fact remains that your in house PR person should be proactive enough.

There was a Book Launch at Infinity Mall, where we took advantage of the background & Bombay Times:)

TOI November 2006

With the launch of Damas in India, StoRai the magazine of Retail Association had an interview featuring yours truly.

Immediately upon returning from Dubai & launching the first store for Damas in India, RAI was insistent on gathering knowledge, two pronged basically - to understand the differentiators between D’damas & Damas as well as understand the business plans.

Damas winning an Award in a long time in Dubai

Mare & Damas Team at GMR

A writeup about innovative thinking in 2001 after taking on the traveljini challenge…

Writeup on Traveljini

I was privileged to be invited by Preeti Desai President of IAMAI to speak on a session of  Online Strategies for Customer Acquisition, on January 18, 2006 along with other speakers who were:

1.   Anup Bagchi COO, ICICI Web Trade Ltd.

2.      Sanjeev Bikchandani, CEO, Naukri.com

3.      Satya Prabhakar, President & CEO Sulekha.com

4.      Harsh Roongta, Founder & CEO, Apnaloan

5.      Deep Kalra, Founder & CEO, Makemytrip.com

A quite interesting session moderated by Rohit Mull Marketing Director Tata AIG. Some Points were written about here and here.