Santanu Gogoi Email and Phone Number

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Vice President, Corporate, Crisis and Issue Management, Weber Shandwick, New Delhi (February 2014 till date)As the Vice President of the Corporate Practice, the largest practice of Weber Shandwick India my job is to recommend programs and activities that meet with clients’ business and communications objectives and is ultimately accountable for delivering contracted work on time and within budget, ensuring production of high quality work that meets outlined program benchmarks and goals and overseeing the staffing and fiscal management of assigned accounts. I play a central role in business development and guide the development of creative and successful PR strategies and programs. I also look after the additional administrative/operational responsibilities of the Delhi office.I am responsible to grow this practice both organically and inorganically. I am currently working closely with clients like Hero Motocorp, Walmart, MSD pharmaceuticals, Boeing, Muthoot Finance, Medtronic, Pearson etc

As the General Manager, Operations, I was operationally responsible to manage and grow the client portfolio.Director – Branch Operations, New Delhi - Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick (February 2010- March 2013) I have been working as Director – Branch Operations with Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick since February 2010 and have been actively involved in servicing & retention of existing clients and new business development. At CVWS, I have been servicing clients across industries like Auto, Defense, Food & Beverage, Aviation, Consumer Electronics & Home Appliances, Healthcare, Telecom, IT, FMCG, amongst others and also leading a team of around 50 employees.Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick – July 2002 till February 2010I joined Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick in June 2002 as Media Executive and went on to climb the ladder and became a Media Supervisor in 2004,Media Manager in 2005, Media Director in 2007 and senior media Director in 2009 before being given the charge of Director – Branch Operations, New Delhi in February 2010.During this journey of around seven and half years I established the ‘Media Team’ of Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick which not only is considered as a ‘Best Practice’ in the industry but also helped to take the agency to the next level. Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick started to be perceived not only as a very good strategic PR agency but also as an agency which can produce excellent output. This helped the agency winning lots of Industry accolades and Clients all the way. Associate Consultant - Clea Public Relations: (June 2001 to June 2002)Joined Clea Public Relations as a trainee and within a year was given the independent responsibility of heading the media team of three executives as Media Manager. At Clea, I handled clients like Barista, Red & White Bravery Awards, Live-in Jeans, Shoppers Stop, Lactose, Seagram’s, Maruti,Dr. Morepen, etc