In India
Sayan Mukerji
After having qualified from Price Water House as a Chartered Accountant over 35 years ago, Sayan Mukerji delved as a mundane finance professional, meandering through various multinational companies (starting with British manufacturer Avery India , then working with precision German electronic giant Siemens, before switching to swash buckling American food giant Heinz and finally ending his professional career with German multinational Bayer as Vice President.)
After working as a professional for over 25 years Sayan had a sudden “awakening” when he decided to be free from the rigors of his Corporate attainments and decided to be part of the social sector where he found “people ethics” far more enriching, contributory and rewarding! Sayan ran the administration for an international NGO based in Kolkata where he provided home, food, shelter, & education to over 250 underprivileged , runaway & orphaned children.
This is when Sayan decided to form a Music Foundation for the under privileged children. Sayan fulfilled his final dream of taking forward music as an universal expression of freedom and peace, when Violin Maestro Kala Ramnath approached him & together they formed Kalashree Music Foundation ( KMF ) in 2013 .
Sayan also has a very active interest in chess & music and felt that both these forms of creativity and expressions had a very profound and compelling influence on the “lesser privileged” often enabling them to put forward courage, confidence and harmony into their regular life & ensuing pursuits.
Sayan writes poetry & plays the Piano, Guitar & Violin, composes & produces music. Sayan is a regular Pod Caster & hosts talk shows across the country.
Subhash Kamath
Subhash has been in the advertising business for 25 years.
He started his career with Ogilvy before moving on to Trikaya Grey, Ambience Publicis, and eventually as the Group CEO of Bates 141.
Subhash joined BBH INDIA as a founding managing partner in January 2009 and has been busy for the past 4 years in kick-starting the “dream agency of the future”.
Over the years, he has been associated with many famous brands and their subsequent success stories. These include Nokia, Lakme, Saffola, Parachute, Britannia, Arrow and Lee jeans, to name a few.
At BBH today, he oversees an enviable portfolio of brands like Johnnie Walker, Google, Skoda, Vaseline, Marico, Airtel and Red Bull amongst others.
Extremely passionate about brand building, Subhash loves to be closely involved with brand strategies and creative development.
He’s happily married with 2 children, plays in a rock & blues band called ‘Wanted Yesterday’, and is crazy about cricket, single malts and good food.
Surjya Kar
Born in 1961 in a well known family of North Calcutta, Surjya was educated in Calcutta Boys’ School, Calcutta and St Xavier’s College, Calcutta. Surjya received the NSTS (National Science Talent Scholarship) award in High School in 1978. He was a part of the winning team in the All India Douglas Bose Debate competition in 1979.
Along with his graduation, Surjya pursued the Chartered Accountancy course from 1981-1984 and completed the same at a very young age. He was ranked in the top 50 both in Intermediate (rank 32nd) and Final (rank 9th) examinations and bagged the J K Doshi award for the best paper in Financial Management in May 1984. He worked for a short while with M/s Lovelock & Lewes and M/s Coopers and Lybrand before joining the family business.
Surjya is an avid reader, a music lover and a strong follower of the performing arts. He is involved with English and Bengali theatre in Calcutta having performed in over 40 plays. He has, also, travelled to the U.K. with Mahesh Elkunchwar’s play “Party” (in English) doing 8 (Eight) public shows at reputed centre’s like Nehru Centre, Harrow Art Centre, Lowry Theatre in Manchester, Watermann’s in London, Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield etc.